Why Fall Protection Training?

Fall Protection training became mandatory in Ontario June 12, 2002. Ontario OH&S Regulation 26.2 (O. Reg. 213/91) states that:

1. An employer shall ensure that a worker who may use a fall protection system is adequately trained in its use and given adequate oral and written instruction by a competent person;
2. The employer shall ensure that the person who provides the training and instruction referred to in subsection (1) prepares a written training and instruction record for each worker and signs the record;
3. The training and instruction record shall include the worker's name and the dates on which training and instruction took place;
4. The employer shall make the training and instruction record for each worker available to an inspector upon request.

At D.R. Rigging & Safety, we've been supplying certification training since long before this regulation, as it now stands, came into effect. The only difference since the 2002 legislation is that the employer is now required to maintain copies of the written record of training. This is provided to you by our signed certificates, the original copies of the participants tests and the original course attendance sheet.

Why Rigging Training?

Defense of Due Diligence

The Canadian Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety explains the meaning of Due Diligence in depth: www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/legisl/diligence.html.

As a defense of Due Diligence, our Fundamentals in Rigging course is of value to companies who have employees who actively use various types of rigging equipment. This material will prove useful to equipment end users, supervisors, managers and safety personnel. We provide employers with written records to the standard of those required for Fall Protection training.

What is WHMIS?

WHMIS - Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System.

WHMIS is Canada's national standard for providing information & procedures about the safe handling and use of hazardous materials or substances in the workplace.

Conceived and developed through the collective efforts of labour, industry and government, WHMIS represents a unique concensus of these three groups. WHMIS was enacted into law in 1988 and covers the following key areas:

• controlled product labelling
• provision of MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) for each controlled product
• worker education and training program

For your convenience, we have included the following links for more comprehensive information about WHMIS:

The Canadian Legal Information Institute: Occupational Health & Safety Act R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 860 amended to O.Reg 36/93 Full text reproduced here: http://www.canlii.org/on/laws/regu/1990r.860/20040304/whole.html.

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety: http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/legisl/intro_whmis.html
and
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/legisl/whmis_education.html.

Health Canada's Official National site detailing Canada's hazard communication standard: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/whmis/.