Fabrication Safety
Manufacturers optimistic about 2013
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Easing manual unloading
As the volume of inbound deliveries increase, so too does the potential for injury during manual unloading. ESL’s Destuff-IT machinery increases unloading efficiency and lowers the potential for strain injuries and mishaps.
Protecting workers in tight spaces
A Canadian first, the CSA has defined confined environments in a new national standard as “a workspace that is fully or partially enclosed; not designed or intended for continuous human occupancy and has limited or restricted access.”
Time to get tough on violence
Ontario manufacturers have only a couple months to put policies in place that are in compliance with new Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) amendments, but many are unsure what they need to do.
Safety
Death of teen caught in conveyor belt ‘heart wrenching’: Tolko head
Bradley Haslam, 18, member of overnight cleanup crew
Ontario scraps repeal of ‘Industrial Exception’
Regulation would have directly impacted the way manufacturers customize their machinery.
Radioactive leak from new tank at crippled Japan nuclear plant renews water storage concerns
Problem could hamper clean-up efforts
Ottawa to impose stiff daily fines on companies who don’t pull unsafe products
Up to $25,000 per day
Poultry plant fires shows little has changed for many Chinese workers
Callous approach to worker safety in China that leads to frequent industrial disasters.
Encore Steel fined $75,000 for worker fatality
Mishap occurred while loading steel beams on a truck.
CAW, CEP to reveal super union name, logo (link to livestream)
New union’s name and logo comes a year and a half after discussions and consultations on the New Union Project began.
Essar Steel Algoma fined $250,000 for three OHSA violations
Incidents involved burns from a molten steel and a fireball, a fall and a falling cart.
Marine use of LNG being examined
Businesses, governments and organizations collaborate on $1.2 million project
Bruce Power permitted to push unit 1 reactor beyond 50% capacity
The next step will be to bring reactor back to full power
Calif Senator wants probe into San Onofre nuclear plant radiation leak
Barbara Boxer says federal investigators need to examine equipment swap that led to the malfunction
NC nuclear plant under microscope after corrosion, cracking found
Harris Nuclear Power Plant forced to shut down last week; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Committee launches investigation
RDC funding to support Newfoundland, Labrador business-led projects
Projects in ocean technology, natural resources, and advanced manufacturing gets $1.8 million in funding.
Hundreds outside Fukushima seek compensation for nuclear disaster
Existing compensation plan only covers Fukushima residents
Labor group says Apple making progress at Foxconn
But, electronics giant still has work to do on reducing work hours.
Elderly nun convicted for break-in at US nuclear weapons plant
Security flaws revealed at Y-12 after three protesters—including the 83-year-old—gained access to most secure part of complex
Research says Northern Gateway underestimates risk of oil spills
Analysis found likelihood of tanker spill ranges from one every 23 years to one every 196 years
Five people hurt in Magna plant explosion
Incident took place on a manufacturing line at Dortec Industries, a division of Magna.