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How Automation Improves Safety and Compliance for Wastewater Workers
OH&S
The range of hazards that water workers potentially face is diverse and complex. They can experience harmful slips and falls, at both high and low levels, as well as drowning.
Overcoming work safety hazards in winter
Canadian Security Magazine
In 2009, security guards suffered 63 fatal work injuries and close to 9,000 nonfatal workplace injuries or illnesses that required at least one day away from their jobs. Thankfully, there are a number of proactive steps employers can take to mitigate these hazards.
Beyond Hard Hats: Integrating Industrial Hygiene into Lone Worker Safety
OH&S
The roots of industrial hygiene can be traced back thousands of years. In ancient Rome, scholar Pliny the Elder advised miners to wear face masks, or PPE, made from animal bladders, to protect them from inhaling dangerous dust while at work. Industrial hygiene has come a long way since, becoming a highly specialized, high-tech field.
Safety Equipment for Water and Wastewater Workers
Water & Wastes Digest
During the pandemic, a number of U.S. businesses and services came to a halt, forcing people to stay at home and away from others. But during this chaotic time, did residents ever run out of clean water? Many wastewater workers toiled around the clock, making sure the public had access to clean, running water.
Safety News Alert
The first step to creating a worker safety program is a thorough risk assessment of the workplace. But what many people don’t know is that risk assessments are not a one-time project. Your workplace changes over time and so do your safety risks and hazards, so regularly assessing any existing threats to your team should be in your calendar.
Revolutionizing water worker safety using innovative tech
Water Canada
Workers who provide clean water often work long hours alone and face hazards like falls, violence, and mental health challenges. Protecting them requires thoughtful planning, strong safety policies, and the right technology.
SafetyLine business intelligence with contact tracing
Canadian Occupational Safety
SafetyLine Lone Worker is receiving an update and will be adding contact tracing to its suite of business intelligence features for worker safety to help track and stop the spread of COVID-19.
Are you confident your remote workers are safe?
ISHN
In 2020 during the start of the Coronavirus employers now need to take different steps when protecting their team, particularly for those who are working alone. In addition to the existing workplace hazards, lone workers must also be protected from everyday hazards.
Physical Distancing While Working at Water and Wastewater Utilities
Water Canada
Water utilities industry workers are essential services for our communities. Water workers are silent, unsung heroes, providing safe drinking water to Canadians as well as maintaining essential wastewater operations.
Hazard Assessments and Why You Need to Conduct Them Regularly
ACTS
You need to know your enemy. In this case, the “enemy” is a safety hazard that could harm your employees in the near or distant future. The essential first step when eliminating occupational hazards is to thoroughly identify these dangers so that the employer can look at strategies to improve the safety of their most important resource – the people.
How to keep your employees safe while working from home
BC Business
BC Business spoke with Kyle Touhey, CPO of Vancouver-based Tsunami Solutions, about what employers can do to make sure their staff stay safe while working remotely.
SafetyLine Lone Worker Spotlight
BC Tech
SafetyLine is an automated cloud-based work-alone safety monitoring service that helps companies to be compliant with the CCOHS and lone worker regulations. We provide safety solutions through interactive voice response service, smartphone application, an online administration service, and Bluetooth and satellite device integrations.
How Automation Improves Safety and Compliance for Wastewater Workers
OH&S
Automation helps wastewater employers maintain OSHA compliance by reducing human error, standardizing safety protocols, and proactively managing risks like toxic exposure and confined space hazards. By integrating automated systems, organizations improve worker safety, streamline compliance processes, and better support a shrinking workforce in a high-risk industry.