Weekly Review: December 26th-January 8th
Happy New Year! On behalf of the entire team at Rescue 7, we hope your holidays were filled with warmth, family and friends. Thank you for all of your support in 2016, and your continued friendship into 2017. ——————————————————————————————————
Extending a HUGE ‘thank you’ to our friend Heather at Pilatez.ca! Last month, she and her personal fitness team raised OVER $1700 for the Chase McEachern Memorial Fund! We could not do it without people like you!
Interested in fundraising? Contact us at 905-474-0770.
Another satisfied client! “I’d like to pass along all the great feedback I got about the trainer, Ray Chapman. The staff really enjoyed the training and felt that Ray was knowledgable and very engaging.”
— Andreia Esteves, CHRP
HR Business Partner
Ontario College of Trades
Upcoming Courses To register, call us at 905-474-0770 or head to www.rescue7.net!
1. Working at Heights (WAH) January 20th, 8:30am-4:30pm, Rescue 7 head office (Markham)*
2. Standard First Aid (SFA)/AED Instructor Course, February 4-5th, 2017, 8:00am-5:00pm
Thinking about buying an AED for your home, your car or your cottage? Now it’s easier than ever — you can find Rescue 7’s lightweight and affordable HeartSine Samaritan AED online at Costco!
As of April 1, 2015 you are required to have training through a MOL approved training provider if you work on a construction project. Is your workplace protected? For more information or to register:
http://rescue7.net/…/health-safety…/working-at-heights/
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Lack of Proper Fall Protection Results in Injury, $50,000 Fine to Elmira Company (December 20, 2016)
LONDON, ONTARIO – An Elmira company pleaded guilty and was fined $50,000 after one of its workers fell and suffered critical injuries on a job site.
The company, Earl Horst Systems Ltd., is in the business of manufacturing and installing grain bin systems and accessories.
On October 9, 2015 the company was engaged in an alteration project to an industrial farming operation located on Haggerty Drive in Newbury, Ontario. This involved the addition of new grain storage and handling equipment as well as the renovation of existing equipment.
A worker employed by the company was working atop an existing 30-foot-high grain bin. The worker was wearing a fall protection harness attached by lanyard to a newly-installed cushion box (a metal box used like a funnel to slow the movement of grain) at the peak of the grain bin. The cushion box weighed between 100 and 200 pounds and had not yet been welded in place.
The worker was connecting a metal pipe running from a nearby structure to the cushion box. As the pipe was being put into position to be attached to the cushion box, it made contact with the cushion box and dislodged it. The box slid down the roof of the grain bin and fell over the side, dragging the worker along with it. The worker fell about 30 feet to the ground and sustained several injuries, including a fracture.
When a worker is exposed to a fall hazard as described in Ontario Regulation 213/91 (the Construction Projects Regulation), the regulation requires that a fall arrest system be attached to an independent fixed support capable of withstanding 6 kilonewtons of static force. The fixed support used for the worker’s fall protection did not meet that requirement. As an approved provider for working at heights training, the company is familiar with the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and in its role as a training provider, responsible for ensuring that others know how to comply with these requirements.
The company pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that a worker had a suitable anchor to tie to, and was fined $50,000 by Justice of the Peace G. Susan Stewart in London court on December 19, 2016.
The court also imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.