Publications

• How MOL's new OHS strategy puts workplaces first
• Can your shop towels be contaminating workers?
• Ministry of Labour releases new training standard for people working at heights
• Gifts that keep on giving: new resources for 2014, courtesy of WSPS's volunteer advisory committee
• Court decision: jail terms may become the "new norm" for fall protection cases

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• Protect people and your business with the Ontario FarmSafe Plan
• Bill 146: MOL broadens safety protection for unpaid learners and temporary workers
• New technology: understanding the benefits and the risks
• Reaping the benefits of a safer workplace: one company's experience
• WSPS 2014 Safety Group: reduce injuries and save money
• Effective supervisor = safe and effective business operation
• Foaming manure in hog barns: explosion, fire and asphyxiation hazards
• New Resources

• Ministry of Labour to conduct warehouse safety blitz in February. Will you be ready?
• Prevention system leaders weigh in on the evolution of occupational health and safety in 2013
• How to fulfill your employer responsibilities to provide a psychologically safe workplace
• How personal listening devices turn into workplace hazards
• Overdrive is not the only gear: how to curb excessive work hours

• Compliance with AODA is not just about ramps and accessibility doors. Find out what it means to you
• Ministry of Labour blitz on construction in active workplaces could affect you
• Mandatory awareness training: 4 essential facts to counter misinformation
• This year the WSIB distributed $6.3 million in rebates to 595 of our customers. You too could benefit

• Nov-Dec recycling and waste management blitz: converting risk into opportunity for all employers
• First aid can mitigate the severity of workplace injuries. Safety Group 2014 shows you how
• Two-thirds of employees returning from absence due to depression are less productive: CBOC study
• How health and safety can help you engage your employees

• Securing a business advantage: two firms' Safety Group experience
• Transforming your OHS performance: WSPS's take on a new strategy for Ontario
• CSA's OHS standards: tools for enhancing business performance
• Appeal court triples fine: economic impact argument dismissed
• Driving as we knew it

• WSPS Safety Group 2014: fast-track your safety performance
• Start now to prepare for GHS
• Employer investigation was a reprisal, adjudicator rules
• MOL 2013/14 enforcement plans for manufacturing and services

• Supreme Court decision: prove a problem exists before random testing for drugs, alcohol
• Success(ion) planning at WSPS
• Watch out for misleading sales calls
• Mental health: costly gap between what workplaces think and what they're doing?

• OHS as business strategy: one company's experience
• Is unpaid work unprotected work?
• The future of OHS: key messages from Partners in Prevention 2013
• How to avoid risking life and limb in managing the emerald ash borer
• Are those features in that new company car safe?

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• Managing your business with a farm safety plan
• New and young worker safety blitz now underway
• Watch for this sign | Buggies are vehicles too | WSPS in the community
• Access WSPS resources anywhere, sooner
• Transporting workers safely: putting a plan in place
• Chemical exposure: keeping workers safe
• Hazard summaries: biogas systems, livestock barn fires, and photovoltaic systems
• New & young worker training: how one firm does it
• New Resources