Operation Red
Nose
WorkSafeNB
wishes everyone a happy and safe holiday season and reminds
you that Operation Red Nose (ORN) is gearing up with the help
of dedicated volunteers to make New Brunswick roads safer. For
21 years, the service has offered partygoers and their cars a
free, safe ride home. ORN is a free, designated driver service
that gets drivers who may be unfit to drive, and their
passengers, to their destinations safely – in their own cars –
during the holiday season. More
Tips to Ensure a
Fire-Free Safe Holiday Season
Don’t let fire turn this season of
celebration and joy into one of devastation and sorrow. Gerald
Green, District Chief of the Saint John Fire Department in charge of Fire Prevention, Investigation &
Safety, offers some advice to ensure your holidays are happy
and fire-free.
“The most important thing, which we
cannot stress enough, is making sure your smoke alarms work.
You should have at least one working smoke alarm on every
level of your home, ideally outside the bedrooms,” Green said.
“Countless lives have been lost to fire that could’ve been
saved by a smoke detector.” More
Three Ergonomic Risk
Factors of Office Work
Office work may seem harmless enough,
sitting all day at a desk using a computer. However all that
prolonged sitting, typing on a keyboard and using a mouse for
hours at a stretch every day can set the stage for
musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs). Symptoms of an MSI can
include pain, joint stiffness, weak or aching muscles, redness
and swelling, numbness and tingling, a burning sensation, and
a general feeling of tiredness.
The three factors that present the
greatest risk for MSIs
involve:
1. fixed and constrained
postures that are
often
awkward, uncomfortable and maintained
for
too long a time. 2.
repetitious and
forceful hand
movements. 3. a
fast pace of work. More
In
the Courts
Two employers and
a supervisor were charged recently in connection with two
separate workplace deaths. Dominion Refuse
Collectors were charged in provincial court on
November 29, 2011, as a result of a lengthy investigation into
the death of an employee, 25-year-old Adam Harris. Harris died
on December 2, 2010 when he was struck by a large garbage bin.
More
WorkSafeNB
undertook a second extensive investigation following the death
of 17-year-old Patrick Desjardins, who was electrocuted while
working at Wal-mart. Wal-mart and one of its
supervisors were charged on December 6. More
Both Dominion
Refuse collectors and Wal-mart and its supervisor will answer
to the charges in provincial court on January 10. Court
proceedings are open to the public.
Daniel George Matchett,
Junior pleaded guilty on December 6 to an offence in
September 2010 under subsection 9(2)(d) of the OHS
Act for failing to provide and maintain in good condition
such protective equipment as is required by regulation and
ensure that such equipment is used by an employee in the
course of work, and for failing to ensure that employees used
an individual fall-arresting system. Matchett was fined
$1,000, plus a $200 surcharge. The charge arose after a repeat
stop work order on zero tolerance for fall arrest.
Brian Case, carrying on business as “Brian
Case” and “Perma-roof”, pleaded guilty on December 7
to an offence under subsection 105(2) of General
Regulation 91-191 under the OHS Act, for failing
to ensure that a warning line is installed and maintained one
metre from the unguarded edge where an employee is engaged in
the weatherproofing of a roof that is three metres or more
above the ground or other safe working level, has a slope of 4
in 12 or less, and has an unguarded edge, and the employee is
not using an individual fall-arresting system or a
fall-restraint system. Case was fined $5,000. The charges
arose following an accident investigation where a worker was
seriously injured in a fall in September
2010.
Ask
Us
Q:
Can you please advise on the proper
procedures for submitting JHSC minutes? Can they be emailed or
faxed or must they be mailed?
Jane Black* ABC Fisheries* Caraquet*, NB
*Name has been changed for
privacy purposes A: JHSC
minutes can be faxed, emailed or sent through Canada Post. You
can forward by email and if you do, it is not necessary that
emailed minutes be signed by the co-chairs, as long as there
is a signed copy on file at the workplace. More
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2012 Fredericton (E)* and Saint
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DID YOU KNOW
?
The Canadian Centre for
Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) annually awards a
$3,000 national scholarship to any student enrolled,
either full-time or part-time, in an occupational health
and safety related course or program leading to an
occupational health and safety certificate, diploma or
degree at an accredited college or university in Canada.
Programs include mine safety, occupational or industrial
health and safety, industrial hygiene, safety management
or other related safety degree programs. CCOHS is now
accepting entries for the 2011-12 Dick Martin
Scholarship Award. Deadline for entries is 5 p.m.,
January 31, 2011. Click here
for more
information.
EVENTS
January
18-19, 2012 SAFE Work
Conference 2012: Safety Within, Success
Throughout Winnipeg, MB
CCOHS
Webinar Help Your New
Workers Stay Safe Free!
CCOHS
Webinar Radiation Safety
in the Workplace New!
February
13-14, 2012 Preventing Violence &
Harassment in the Workplace Toronto,
Ont. March 28-29,
2012 Safety Services
Nova Scotia 30th Annual H & S
Conference
Halifax, N.S.
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