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1 week ago | 
ohscanada.com | Brandi Cowen
Compass Minerals Canada Corp. has been fined $75,000 after a worker was injured while assisting with repairs on a flexible conveyor train. On Dec. 19, 2022, maintenance workers and an electrician were repairing a flexible conveyor train that had partially run off its rails at a workplace in Goderich, Ont. To fix the problem, the maintenance workers had to maintain power to the equipment to get it back onto the rails. The electrician left the area while this was being done.
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1 week ago | 
talentcanada.ca | Brandi Cowen
Aemulus Corporation, Jackman Enterprises Inc. and Christopher Winston Jackman-El-Hajj, who acted as corporate director for both companies, have been fined a total of $86,000 for failing to comply with orders to pay wages. Six employees of the two corporations Toronto-based corporations filed claims with the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development for wages that were not paid between July 2019 and July 2020.
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1 week ago | 
ohscanada.com | Brandi Cowen
John Harris Concrete Ltd. has been fined $85,000 after a worker was fatally injured while cutting down a tree. The small construction company, which specializes in concrete foundations and is based in Chatham, Ont., pleaded guilty to failing, as an employer, to provide training to the worker as required by section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. On Oct.
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2 weeks ago | 
ohscanada.com | Brandi Cowen
Siltech Corporation has been fined $90,000 for failing, as an employer, to ensure containers were bonded and grounded as required by section 22(4)(b) of Ontario regulation 851, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. On Sept. 8, 2021, two workers were transferring flammable liquid from a large container into two smaller metal pails at the company’s manufacturing facility on Wicksteed Avenue in Toronto.
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2 weeks ago | 
ohscanada.com | Brandi Cowen
Southgate Carpets Incorporatedhas been fined $100,000 after a worker was injured in a fall from a building being demolished.
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2 weeks ago | 
talentcanada.ca | Brandi Cowen
In today’s fast-paced world, technical skills alone aren’t enough. The best workplaces thrive on trust, collaboration, and emotional intelligence – all of which are rooted in social intelligence. But don’t just take my word for it. Let’s look at the data:Enhanced employee retention: Organizations that invest in professional development, which often includes social intelligence training, experience 34 per cent higher employee retention rates.
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2 weeks ago | 
talentcanada.ca | Brandi Cowen
Nominations are now open for the inaugural Talent Canada Top 10 Under 40 awards, celebrating the next generation of talent professionals. TheTop 10 Under 40 will recognize the achievements of the newest generation of professionals working to recruit and retain the top talent organizations need to thrive. Strong work ethic, leadership by example, and efforts to grow the talent industry will all be acknowledged.
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2 weeks ago | 
talentcanada.ca | Brandi Cowen
Employees at webTactics have one less tedious task on their plates thanks to a recent collaboration between the recruitment marketing agency and Seneca Polytechnic researchers. The time-consuming work of creating unique job postings — a small subset of the services webTactics provides — is now the domain of a custom generative AI app developed at Seneca.
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1 month ago | 
ohscanada.com | Brandi Cowen
There have never been more options for personal protective equipment (PPE) designed to fit women’s bodies; however, a significant gap remains between what’s available and what women need to keep them safe in the workplace. This gap was a major discussion point during OHS Canada’s ProtectHer Women’s Safety Leadership and PPE Symposium, convened virtually on March 19. “PPE that’s ill-fitting will not protect us against the hazards in the workplace,” said Amy Roosa, founder of The Safety Rack.
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1 month ago | 
ohscanada.com | Brandi Cowen
More than two months after being detected, the environmental cleanup of a massive diesel spill at an Irving truck stop on Beardsley Road in Woodstock continues. The full scope of the spill, initially detected on Dec. 12, 2024, only became evident in late February when CBC unveiled information garnered through a freedom of information request from the New Brunswick environment department.
