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 CoursesJoint Health
& Safety Committee Training |
| July 16, 2002 - Burnaby |
| September 17, 2002 - Burnaby |
| November 13, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| Hazard Control and Recognition |
| July 30, 2002 - Burnaby |
| September 18, 2002 - Burnaby |
| November 12, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| Occupational Health and Safety in Small
Business |
| August 23, 2002 - Burnaby |
| December 18, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| Preventing and Investigating
Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) |
| July 31, 2002 - Burnaby |
| September 26, 2002 - Burnaby |
| October 24, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| Preventing Workplace Violence |
| August 20, 2002 - Burnaby |
| October 8, 2002 - Burnaby |
| December 10, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| Supervisor Safety Management |
| August 1, 2002 - Burnaby |
| September 19, 2002 - Burnaby |
| November 14, 2002 - Burnaby |
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Contractor & Project Safety Management |
| July 24 & 25, 2002 - Burnaby |
| August 13 & 14, 2002 - Burnaby |
| September 10 & 11, 2002 - Calgary |
| October 9 & 10, 2002 - Burnaby |
| November 19 & 20, 2002 - Calgary |
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| Due Diligence for Managers / Supervisors /
Officers / Directors |
| July 17, 2002 - Burnaby |
| July 23, 2002 - Calgary |
| September 24, 2002 - Burnaby |
| October 1, 2002 - Calgary |
| November 27, 2002 - Burnaby |
| December 4, 2002 - Calgary |
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| Machine & Process Safeguarding |
| July 25, 2002 - Calgary |
| September 5, 2002 - Burnaby |
| October 3, 2002 - Calgary |
| November 26, 2002 - Burnaby |
| December 3, 2002 - Calgary |
| December 19, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| CLC Part II - OHS for Managers &
Supervisors |
| August 7 & 8, 2002- Calgary |
| August 21 & 22, 2002- Burnaby |
| October 15 & 16, 2002- Burnaby |
| October 29 & 30, 2002- Calgary |
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| CLC Part II - Work Place & Policy
Health and Safety Committees |
| September 3 & 4, 2002 - Burnaby |
| September 12 & 13, 2002 - Calgary |
| November 21 & 22, 2002 - Calgary |
| December 11 & 12, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| OHSAS 18001 - OHS Management System
Awareness Course |
| August 6, 2002 - Calgary |
| August 15, 2002 - Burnaby |
| October 17, 2002 - Burnaby |
| October 31, 2002 - Calgary |
| December 17, 2002 - Burnaby |
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| OHSAS 18001 - OHS Management System
Implementation Course |
| August 27 to 29, 2002 - Calgary |
| November 5 to 7, 2002 - Calgary |
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| REA is Expanding in the West |
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Resource Environmental Associates (REA) is an environmental health and
safety (EHS) firm providing consulting services and occupational health and safety
training. REA was established in 1990 in Toronto. Over the past decade our list of clients
has increased substantially and, in response, we have expanded our operations to become
nation-wide. REA now has offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Hamilton, Ottawa and
Toronto. Despite our expansion, REA maintains that our skilled and knowledgeable staff are
capable of meeting the firm’s expectations of “Placing Clients
First”. We encourage you to contact us to see what services we can provide
to help you maintain or improve health and safety in your workplace. EHS Headlines is a
free monthly publication produced by REA to update our clients and contacts on
environmental, health and safety changes in legislation and industry practices. Please
feel free to pass this newsletter along to anyone who may benefit from this information.
EHS Headlines is available by fax or email anywhere in Canada and is tailored to meet the
needs of our Western clients (BC & AB), Central clients (ON), and Federal clients. If
you have offices or departments that would like to receive EHS Headlines by email or fax,
please contact us at consultants@rea.ca and we
will be happy to add them to our list.. If you have any questions about this publication,
please contact Chun-Yip Hon at 1-888-rea-4-ehs or chon@rea4ehs.com.
We are also pleased to announce that REA is a member of WCB' WorkSafe™
Education Network and as such will be offering the six WorkSafe™ courses and
our own H&S training courses. For more information on these and other courses, visit
our website at www.rea.ca. |
| B.C. News |
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New WCB Division Established
In 2001, more than a third of the work-related fatalities that occurred in BC were a
result of occupational disease. The number of work-related deaths caused by disease has
been slowly increasing over the past couple of decades. In light of these facts, the WCB
has recently established the Occupational Disease Prevention Services Section. Its mandate
is to “evaluate the risk of occupational disease to workers in BC and assist the WCB
Prevention Division to implement strategies to minimize that risk”. They are also
responsible for establishing occupation-based worker exposure matrices for target agents
identified through occupational disease trends. Eventually, this division will have a say
in future revisions to the OHS Regulations and occupational exposure limits. For more
information on this division, search the WCB website at www.worksafebc.com.
Sawmill Health and Safety Resource Tool
Despite the recent closings of some lumber yards, there is still a significant number of
British Columbians working in the forestry industry. Although there may be fears about job
stability and economic factors affecting the industry, sawmill workers must remind
themselves that their workplace is one of the most dangerous. There are plenty of health
and safety hazards found at sawmills. This includes machine hazards, eye hazards, working
alone, and wood dust (which can cause respiratory diseases). To help better educate
sawmill workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) in the United States has developed a new free web-based resource. The address
for this site is www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/sawmills_etool/index.html.
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| Alberta News |
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OHS Regulation Amendments
It has been in the works for a couple of years now but changes to the OHS Regulations
should be in effect by the end of this year. One of the biggest changes is to consolidate
the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations into one document. This will mean less
redundancy and will make the legislation a more practical reference tool. In addition, the
Workplace Health & Safety division has established that the regulations will expire
every five years and must be reviewed at that time. For more information regarding the
impending changes, please visit Alberta’s Workplace Health and Safety website at www.whs.gov.ab.ca. New Occupational Exposure Limits
One of the changes to the OHS Regulations is that there will be new Occupational Exposure
Limits (OELs). An OEL is the maximum airborne concentration of a chemical that a worker
can be exposed to in the workplace. In the existing Chemical Hazards Regulation, the OELs
are listed under Schedule 1. The new regulation will adopt the limits established in the
1999 version of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) guidelines. A quick comparison indicates that some of the
TLVs differ from the OELs currently found in the Chemical Hazards Regulation. If you would
like to know more about OELs or need assistance with occupational exposure monitoring,
feel free to email us at consultants@rea.ca or
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| New International Standard: OHSAS 18001 – OHS Management
System |
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In the absence of an ISO Standard for occupational health and safety management systems,
progressive employers around the globe have been adopting British Standards Institute
OHSAS 18001 – the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Specification.
The OHSAS specification will enable an organization to control its OHS risks and improve
its performance. OHSAS 18001 was developed to be compatible with the ISO 9001 (Quality)
and ISO 14001 (Environmental) management standards. REA is providing a 1-day awareness session on August 15,
2002 in Burnaby. By the end of the day, participants will understand the intent,
content and applicability of this management system. |
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