Your Mouse May Be Hurting You – Office Ergonomics
If you've ever stepped away from your computer desk with a stiff/sore wrist or elbow, you may not have considered it could be your mouse causing the problems. But then, like most people, you shrug it off and go back to using your mouse the next day. As you spend more and more time working at your desk, you have been putting your wrist [...]
Mud On A Construction Site Tips
Working outdoors can come with a whole host of problems for the workers and the project itself. The work site, as well as the area around it, can have hazardous conditions when it rains or the snow from winter starts to melt. The onset of inclement weather and muddy conditions brings a variety of different hazards that must [...]
New Legislation Introduced In Ontario
Ontario is introducing a new Legislation: Working for Workers Two are changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act to increase the maximum fines for businesses that fail to protect their workers to the highest in the country. The Ontario government is introducing legislative changes today that would, if passed, deliver better protections, bigger paycheques and greater opportunities for workers [...]
Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations Ontario
New TDGR Training Rules Take Effect in February 2022 The system you use to provide workers Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR) training may become obsolete on February 9, 2022, when Transport Canada’s new Competency-Based Training requirements take effect. Instead of the “certificate of training” required under current rules, trainees must receive a “certificate of competence” documenting successful completion of required TDGR [...]
New Minimum Wage For Ontario
Effective January 1, 2022, minimum wage rates increased and the special minimum wage rate that previously applied to certain “liquor servers” was eliminated. Use the Employment Standards Self-Service Tool to check compliance with rules on minimum wage and other employment standards entitlements. Minimum wage is the lowest wage rate an employer can pay an employee. Most employees are eligible for minimum wage, [...]
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