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Breaking the ice: WorkSafeBC’s Suzana Prpic offers advice to protect workers from cold

In an interview with OHS Canada, Suzana Prpic, senior manager of prevention field services at WorkSafeBC, outlined best practices and guidelines designed to protect workers from cold stress injuries like frostbite and hypothermia.


How to protect workers from inclement winter weather

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, there were over 9,000 hospitalizations due to falls on ice from from 2016 to 2017. Winter weather also poses hazards such as cold stress to outdoor workers and dangerous driving conditions for commuters.


 
 
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Snow will come off Northern Ontario highways faster, province pledges

Ontario is pushing to clear snow off highways faster in the northern part of the province. The new “ON Trans-Canada” standard requires contractors to clear Highways 11 and 17 within 12 hours of the end of a winter storm. That’s four hours faster than the previous standard, the province said. » Read More...

Brakes compromised by ice in runaway train that killed worker

A report into the 2018 death of a New Brunswick CN worker says the brakes of two runaway railcars were compromised by ice before the cars collided. The crash killed a conductor trainee who was trapped on the footboard of the locomotive. » Read More...

 
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