Working at Heights Regulation and Information
If your workers face fall hazards, you're required to provide them with fall-protection training and equipment.
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Working at Heights
Explore resources that will help you prevent working at heights incidents from threatening the safety of your workers and your business.
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How to Work from Heights Safely
This video discusses Working at Heights - a key concern for anyone whose employees are off the ground, whether it's on ladders, roofs, or elevated platforms or even working in trees.
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Falls from under 3-metres can be fatal: how to prevent them
After a worker died from a fall under 3 metres, an Ontario manufacturer was fined $325,000. Learn why they were charged and how to prevent this tragedy in your workplace.
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10 best practices for avoiding workplace concussions
Concussions have been called 'invisible injuries'. While the injury may be invisible, the consequences aren't. Get 10 tips to protect your employees.
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Safe Lifting Checklist - Participant Resource
Safe Lifting Checklist - Participant Resource
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Ladder safety: prevent injuries with this free downloadable guideline
Over 95% of all workplace incidents involving portable ladders result from unsafe acts. WSPS’ new guideline offers essential tips on how to keep your employees safe.
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Job Aid - Working at Heights
Working at heights includes any work where a worker is exposed to a potential fall of three meters or more.
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Fall from Heights Fatalities Analysis
The project was undertaken to better understand causes (“contributing factors”) and circumstances around falls from heights.
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Fall Prevention Safety Tool Kit
A Guide for Employers
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A Snapshot: Falls From Height Data Analysis
Falls from heights continue to be a major cause of injury and death in Ontario workplaces.
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Dropped tools can kill. Here's how to secure tools at heights
Imagine this: one of your workers drops a 3-pound tool from a height of 20 feet. The tool hits a worker below with 336 pounds of force. Just 16 pounds of force can fracture a skull.
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12 ways to engage workers in slip, trip and fall prevention
A recent prosecution resulting from the death of a worker who tripped on an empty pallet is a shocking reminder of how easily things can go wrong.
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Removing snow from roofs: get ahead of winter with a 10-step plan
Ontario winters can sweep in quickly and unexpectedly, and once here they can still be unpredictable, with extreme variations in snowfall and temperature.
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New working at heights training requirements may affect you. Follow these 6 steps
The standard requires that people working at heights on construction projects receive training if they are using travel restraint systems, fall restricting systems, fall arrest systems, safety nets...
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