Volume 23, Issue 2

Articles:

Volume 23, Issue 1

Articles:

Volume 22, Issue 2

Articles:

Volume 22, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Work-related asthma
• Q&A with Ontario’s new Chief Prevention Officer
• Setting up your ladder safely
• Creating and delivering effective health and safety training
• WSIB’s Health and Safety Excellence program
• Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle
• Does your small business need a JHSC or HSR?
• IHSA’s NCSO™ program continues to grow
• Your top 10 IHSA questions answered
• Win a $500 gift card!

Volume 21, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Let's start talking about mental health at work
• Interview with Ron Kelusky
• October is Global Ergonomics Month
• Getting through COVID-19 with COR™
• Lost-time injuries, occupational diseases, and fatalities
• Addressing mental health in the workplace
• Health and safety concerns in truck yards
• Top 10 root causes of incidents in truck yards
• Working towards COR™ certification while participating in the Health and Safety Excellence program
• Did you know IHSA offers health and safety eLearning?

Volume 21, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Mental health and wellness in professional truck drivers
• Fall hazards around skylights
• IHSA's Labour-Management Network: How your input leads to improved health and safety in the workplace
• Interest in IHSA programs continues to grow
• A risk assessment is the basis for any good health and safety program
• Hygiene hazards on construction sites
• Job planning and tailboard talks
• Top 10 causes of workers falling from heights in residential construction
• Root causes of driver fatigue among professional truck drivers
• IHSA’s new safety podcast is now live
• Pull-out poster: Control the Risks

Volume 20, Issue 3

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Preventing Infectious Diseases
• Trade schools in Ontario focus on health and safety
• IHSA's COVID-19 Resources Helping Workplaces Stay Safe
• Safe trucking requires training, knowledge, and experience
• Rejecting racism is an obligation for Ontario workplaces
• IHSA and Cambrian College's PLTN and LCGS programs
• IHSA's road safety campaign on distracted driving
• IHSA staff speak from experience
• Putting safety to the test
• Did you know IHSA offers health and safety eLearning?

Volume 20, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Mobile Devices on Worksites
• Starting Off Safely - IHSA Introduces Entry-Level Construction Program
• Attention Ontario Contractors Who Employ Young Workers
• Fall Protection and Working at Heights in Residential Construction
• IHSA Supports Safety Training for Young Workers
• Trip Hazards on The Job
• Young Workers - What Puts Them at Risk and What Can Make Them Safer?
• Tread Carefully - How to Improve Temporary Stairs on Residential Construction Sites
• Traffic Control and Young Workers
• Risk Assessment COVID-19
• Risk Assessment Form - Sample 1
• Risk Assessment Form - Sample 2
• Guidance on Construction Facility Hygiene During COVID-19
• Guidance on Cleaning and Sanitizing Inside Your Vehicle During COVID-19
• Guidance on Tool Sharing (Hand Tools) Constructor/Employer Procedure During COVID-19

Volume 20, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Sharing The Road With Trucks
• Safety in General Trucking
• Top 10 Health and Safety Risks
• Transportation Firms Need to Have Fall Prevention Plans
• Building Your Road Safety Program
• Help Prevent Distracted Driving
• Truck Yard Safety Controls
• Fleet Signing Authority MTO Driver Certification Program
• Sharing The Road Means Sharing Responsibility
• WSIB's Health and Safety Excellence Program
• Road Safety Solutions
• Ontario Fleet Safety Council

Volume 19, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Working Alone
• New Road Safety Resources for Employers Available from IHSA
• COR™ Advice
• Small Business Injury Rates Show Why Safety Matters
• Free Health and Safety Resources for Your Small Business
• IHSA's Annual General Meeting - October 2, 2019
• IHSA Works With Researcher to Provide Insight Into Working at Heights Training
• Spotting the Risks in Trucking
• Applying Health and Safety Best Practices to Small Business

Volume 18, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Impairment at The Workplace
• Building The Gap Between Infrastructure and Safety
• Safe Crane Operations Through Proper Training
• Loading Up On Loading Dock Safety
• Associate Auditor Network
• Firms Receive Awards For Safety Success at IHSA 2018 AGM
• Working Safely With PV Systems
• IHSA in The North
• Distracted Driving Impacts Us All
• Do You Have an Impairment Policy at Your Workplace?

Volume 18, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Radon
• Are You Ready For Cannabis in The Workplace?
• Help Workers Blow Their Habit Up in Smoke
• Small Business Outreach Initiative Tours The Province
• Never Miss Reporting a Near Miss
• Distracted Working
• Why You Need a Plan to Conquer Struck-bys
• Are You Getting The Most From Your Training?
• IHSA Can Help You Keep Your Promise

Volume 17, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Working at heights—Site-specific training
• IHSA’s top five safety resources for small businesses
• Best practice: Extension of sewer laterals
• A growing concern: Evaluating the hazards of marijuana in the workplace
• A tool for success: Turning small businesses into industry leaders with COR™
• IHSA’s small business awareness initiative
• Mobile generators on construction projects
• Increasing powerline safety

Volume 17, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Distracted Driving
• Spring into spring start-up
• How everyone gains from COR™
• Guideline for Health and Safety Representatives (Pull-out)
• Managing health and safety
• Ministry of Labour blitzes on their way
• Together we can stop falls from killing Ontario workers
• Keep your momentum going with COR™ workshop program

Volume 16, Issue 3

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Silica - Installing and finishing drywall
• This is one camera you won't be smiling for
• Hazards with utility poles start from the ground up
• Mandatory construction hazard awareness training coming to Ontario
• Technology is taking safety to new heights
• Take extra precautions with lanyards, self-retracting devices, and lifelines near a leading edge
• IHSA provides up-to-date certification training
• IHSA safety training for supervisors

Volume 16, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Tarping loads on a flatbed trailer
• School buses and school purposes vehicle
• Top 10 construction hazards
• High-visibility clothing
• Regulation changes mean more protection for Ontario workers
• Emergency response planning overview
• Reaching young workers on day one
• There's so much to gain by joining a Safety Group
• AGM focuses on partnerships and safety success

Volume 16, Issue 1

Articles:

• Tire Explosions (Pyrolysis)
• Training Requirements for Ontario Workers
• Ontario's Fall Prevention Strategy
• Fall Protection for Sloped Roofers
• Wheel-off Incidents
• Trenching Hazards
• Arc Flash Protection
• COR™ Profiles on Entegrus and Winroc-SPI
• Health and Safety Awareness Ad Campaigns

Volume 15, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Skin Hazards - Irritant Contact Dermatitis
• Occupational Health: A workplace hazard like any other
• Asbestos - Are you at risk of exposure?
• Clearing the air about welding fumes and gases
• WHMIS is changing. Are you ready? (free pull-out WHMIS poster)
• Letting the light back in (after a mesothelioma diagnosis)
• Reducing noise exposure without hearing protection
• Carbon monoxide: What you can't see can hurt you
• Lifting the fog about diesel exhaust
• Staying healthy in the workplace
• Dealing with the delay: The effort to prevent workplace cancer
• Hazardous materials don't have to be dangerous
• Winter Ready campaign

Volume 15, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Struck-by Injuries - Electric Saws
• Small business safety solutions
• Due diligence for small businesses
• Best practices for small business owners
• Five steps to safety for small businesses
• Health and safety guide for supervisors
• Working alone
• Safety tips for independent truck drivers and owner-operators
• Manual material handling
• WSIB, IHSA, and small businesses: Partners in health and safety
• New working at heights rules are in effect

Volume 14, Issue 3

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Chainsaws
• Making high-hazard work safe
• Do you have a Fall Protection Work Plan?
• Preventing MVIs through collision investigation
• Equipment operators: Look out for powerlines
• Putting the skids on skid steer hazards
• IHSA Annual General Meeting
• Mobile devices in the workplace
• Take your ladder safety to new heights
• 100 years of Electrical Utility Safety Rules
• OTM Book 7 has changed
• IHSA's Labour-Management Network aims to make high-hazard work safer
• MOL enforcement blitz results
• New training requirements for working at heights
• Working at heights training is now available in 10 more languages

Volume 14, Issue 2

Articles:

• What is COR™
• Ask the auditor
• How do you measure up against COR™ registered firms
• What makes a good internal auditor
• One company's experience with COR™
• COR™ Raising the bar on safety for small contractors
• Introduction to Hazard and Risk Management course

Volume 14, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Work-related driving
• Why focus on MVIs?
• Predictive behaviour analysis in trucking
• The simple things matter
• David Virgoe's story
• Distracted driving
• Distracted driving hazards (pull-out poster)
• Impaired driving involves more than you think
• Defensive driving
• Sharing the road safely with trucks
• The road to a successful fleet safety program
• Fleet Safety Council
• The power of preventive maintenance

Volume 13, Issue 4

Articles:

• Does your working at heights training meet the new standard?
• Working at Heights Training Standard: History and background
• Working at Heights Training Standard: An update from Chief Prevention Officer George Gritziotis
• Working at Heights Training Standard: Industry perspectives
• Safety Talk: Suspended access equipment - Fall protection
• IHSA offers fall protection training
• Teach IHSA's Working at Heights program

Volume 13, Issue 3

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Head Protection
• Struck-by injuries
• Eye protection
• Job safety analysis (JSA)
• Taking the edge off falling objects
• Nail gun safety
• Heavy equipment and struck-by injuries
• Waste materials blitz
• TTC and Infrastructure Ontario to require COR™
• IHSA Annual General Meeting (pull-out)
• IHSA at the CNE
• New technologies to prevent struck-by injuries
• Struck-by injuries in transportation
• Store it right and stay safe
• MSD prevention for roofers
• Safety day
• Training standards

Volume 13, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Slip and fall hazards for truck drivers
• Reducing powerline contacts
• Can you afford the cost of an injury?
• Don't jump down
• First Student leading the way with COR™
• Safety Culture: The hidden message in every decision MTO introduces new program to reduce collisions by new operators
• Where would you rather work? (pull-out poster)
• A safe site is a clean site (pull-out poster)

Special section on falls

• MOL blitz on falls
• Leading-edge safety in high-rise formwork
• What can roofers do?
• Fifteen steps supervisors can take to prevent falls
• Risk Factors: Ladders
• Don't trip up
• Utility workers: Do you trust your fall protection equipment?
• Temporary stairs on residential construction sites
• Fall protection quiz for workers

Volume 13, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Falling-object hazards
• Protecting Young Workers
• Spring Start-up
• Wind turbines
• Changes to WHMIS
• Spring Thaw
• Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspections
• MOL Blitz Results 2012
• Get Certified with COR™
• New Tools for Small Business
• Gas and Sewer Line Conflicts
• Toronto Hydro and IHSA
• IHSA and COR™
• HRSDC Open House
• MOL Blitz Schedule 2013-14

Volume 12, Issue 4

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Winter hazards
• CEO message - 2012: The year in review
• Small business: Health and safety management
• Protect yourself from Winter hazards
• Slips, trips, and falls blitz
• Ontario utilities help restore power in US after Hurricane Sandy
• Labour-Management Network update
• Staging areas for concrete pumps
• PPE and Winter weather
• Vulnerable Workers
• Your New Year's safety resolutions
• Keep Your Promise poster (IHSA011)

Volume 12, Issue 3

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Defensive driving - Highway Traffic
• Preventing slips and falls in transportation
• IHSA Certificate of Recognition (COR™) program
• Do you know what it takes to be a good supervisor?
• Our aging workforce
• Voyager Training Centre
• IHSA Annual General Meeting
• Doing business under Bill 119
• Take care when driving near school zones
• New training facility to serve the North
• IHSA Mobile Classroom
• IHSA health and safety management perspective
• Fleet Safety Council Educational Conference

Volume 12, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: 3-point contact
• Safe work on the road: Traffic protection
• It's time to take skin cancer seriously
• Health and Safety Management: Ergonomic Change Team
• Traffic Control: What you need to know
• The hazards of heat stress (pull-out chart)
• Be prepared for anything: Emergency response planning
• Heavy-equipment attachments
• Summer letdown
• Reducing MSDs for mechanical and sheetmetal workers
• Community teamwork makes North Bay Safety Conference a success
• Powerline technician apprenticeship training
• K-Line completes ZeroQuest program
• IHSA has the training and posters you need

Volume 12, Issue 1

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Aggregates: Working on stockpiles
• Falling-object prevention
• Roofer's life after fall
• Awards
• Ministry of Labour blitzes
• Hearing protection (pull-out)
• Pre-MTO facility audit
• CT Scans
• Hiring young workers and traffic control
• Occupational hygiene
• Roadcheck 2012
• Poster: How would an MSD affect your life?
• IHSA website
• COR™ program

Volume 11, Issue 4

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Lift trucks in the warehouse
• Ice roads
• Designated substances
• Are you qualified to handle propane?
• Small-business owners
• A message from IHSA's CEO
• Smoking cessation
• The keys to safe winter driving
• IHSA Section 21 committees
• Formwork and demolition
• Safety Groups
• Free poster and COR™ program
• IHSA's Skills Development Centre

Volume 11, Issue 3

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Safe setup of heavy equipment on site
• Preventing fractures in lumber and building-supply yards
• MOL to focus on MSDs in the new year
• Health and safety guide for contracting out work
• Personal protective equipment: the focus of October inspection blitz
• Will your racking and storage system stand up to inspection?
• Join IHSA's Safety Groups program
• Powerline Technician program continues to flourish at Cambrian College

Volume 11, Issue 2

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Securing Loads
• Preventing fractures in general trucking
• Training new workers
• Key training requirements chart
• A powerline technician talks about the day he made electrical contact
• Residential framers: How to prevent falls
• Health and safety in brief
• IHSA hosts multi-sector safety event in Kenora

April 2011

Articles:

• Safety Talk: Floor and roof openings
• Deaths from injury in 2010
• Preventing fractures in construction
• Health and Safety Guide for Independent Business Owners
• Are you ready for Ministry of Labour blitzes?
• The signs of spring: Traffic protection
• Vehicles as workplaces
• IHSA: Your industry's partner

Autumn 2010

Articles:

• Message from IHSA's CEO
• Make safety work for you
• In just ten minutes
• 30 deaths from injury
• The top hazards
• Lift smartly and save your back
• Musculoskeletal Disorders - Transportation
• Transportation of Dangerous Goods
• Focus on fall protection
• Carbon Monoxide: The invisible killer
• Safe winter driving
• National intervention model
• Log books
• Cambrian students learn the value of safety
• Workplace violence law takes effect
• We have what your business needs