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Welcome to day four of Contractor Qualification Week! We're keeping the momentum going with more great content to help you keep contractors safe on your work site. Be sure to check out the on-demand webinars highlighted here for more helpful tips!
- Brandi Cowen, Editor
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A contractor doing work at Stelco has been fined $60,000, plus a victim fine surcharge, after a Stelco employee was hurt in a fall during maintenance and repair work. B. Phillips Company (1987) Limited was contracted by Stelco Inc., a steel manufacturer, to perform maintenance and repair work on one of its oxygen furnaces.
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A contractor who was retained to perform specialized maintenance work has been killed at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. The worker lost consciousness while cleaning an out-of-service gas line.
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Attorneys for a group of workers who believe their jobs cleaning up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee led to a slew of illnesses, including fatal cancers, have reached a settlement with the contractor who organized the cleanup for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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An exterior siding contractor in Ottawa has been fined $75,000 after a worker was seriously injured after slipping on ice and falling from an elevated platform. Spartan Weatherguard Exteriors was an employer on a residential development project and subcontracted exterior wall work to another company.
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Looking for an easier way to onboard, verify, and manage your onsite contractors? Find out how to simplify and accelerate pre-qualification, contractor management, and health & safety verification with SafeContractor.
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In a 2023 court decision, Croke v VuPoint Systems Ltd., the judge found an employment contract had been frustrated by an employee’s refusal to comply with the employer’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. The employer, VuPoint Systems Ltd., was a contractor providing services on behalf of Bell Canada and Bell ExpressVu.
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Safety management needs to be approached systematically and logically. By that, I am suggesting that safety efforts need to follow the evidence to produce results. Employee and contractor engagement is always reported to be high on the list of reasons for success when it comes to the safe production of goods and services.
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Tune in to find out how Nick Trepanier, Rio Tinto’s senior contractor management advisor, and his team have implemented a streamlined contractor management process that ensures consistent onsite safety practices. You’ll learn: the need for pre-qualification to effectively manage the safety and skill profiles of all onsite contractors; how digital contractor management ensures 24/7 access to mission-critical information; what steps the company took to ensure compliance at both the company and worker levels before allowing work to begin; and how they implemented a link-to-gate system for superior on-site management.
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Client organizations are feeling the pressure to react and adapt to external demands and new requirements related to workplace contractor and sub-contractor management. Learn how your organization can: use trusted data and reports as evidence that you have control of contractor risk; identify blind spots in your contractor network; remove the administrative burden of contractor pre-qualification; ensure due diligence by operating toward industry-recognized standards such as COR and ISO45001.
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