Health & Safety

Sudbury ’s Hard-Line is introducing a new product to the mining industry that will increase safety for workers, with the aim of preventing injury or death on the job.

A Sudbury occupational health and safety company is offering real-life training scenarios for companies working in confined spaces.

For four years, Northern Medical Mobile has been providing companies across Northern Ontario with occupational health and safety services. Now, the company has added more resources to better help its clients.

Educational institutions are seeing an increase in applications for health-care positions as the industry faces increased growing demands from an aging baby-boomer population.

At the start of 2010, 14 of the province’s heath and safety associations were consolidated into four organizations in a move to integrate and streamline services.

There is no room for complacency when it comes to working on ice. “Ice is dangerous,” said Allan MacTavish, exploration manager, Magma Metals. “You always have to be thinking ahead.

A change in Quebec’s health and safety regulations may soon mean a safer environment for diamond drillers in Bradley Bros. Ltd.’s Ontario operations following the company’s successful design of a new interlock system.

BioForest Technologies Inc., a Sault Ste. Marie green insecticide company with a knack for stopping the emerald ash borer beetle, has struck a deal with a California tree care firm to distribute their organic formula in the U.S. The J.J.

From the biting, frozen winds of Baffin Island to the grit of Sudbury’s underground, Symboticware Inc. is no stranger to some of the harshest climates inflicted on Canadian mining operations.

As various industries seek to find ways to keep from slipping during a shaky economy, one Sudbury designer and manufacturer of fall protection products has braced itself by reaching out to women.