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Workplace Safety North provides northern Ontario’s businesses, industries and services with occupational health and safety resources, training and consulting, to help companies achieve the goal of zero workplace injuries and illnesses. In addition to serving all northern Ontario firms, we provide province-wide services for forestry, mining, smelters, refineries, pulp & paper, and printing industries.

Over the years, the Ontario Prevention System comprising of the Ministry of Labour (MOL), the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and Health and Safety Associations, including MASHA, PPHSA and OFSWA have built their value around a call to Ontario businesses to change the way they work. The emotional and financial toll of 80 to 100 workplace fatalities each year, and 1,600 lost-time injuries each week, has spurred the Prevention System to boldly follow its own advice. In 2010, the System is undertaking many initiatives that will streamline the way we work so that we can:

• Improve customer service;
• Add consistency to the way businesses are measured and served;
• Provide better support for small and micro business.

The province's 12 Health and Safety Associations have been consolidated to four, pushing resources to the front line and streamlining support services. MASHA, OFSWA, and PPHSA have merged to form Workplace Safety North. Our collective assurance to you during this period of change is to remain committed to our high level of sector-specific service and to assisting you, our members and customers. Our structure may have changed, but the human face of it, our consultants, trainers and support staff, remain in place to provide the products and services you count on.

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We have worked with a variety of workplaces to address prevention related issues. Our prevention teams have extensive experience with providing organizations with expertise, guidance, support and thought leadership in the following areas:

Auditing Certification Training Confined Space Emergency Response Ergonomic Tools Ergonomics Fall Protection Ground Control Incident Investigation Industry Alerts Lockout Machine Guarding

Mechanical Harvesting Mine Rescue Planned Workplace Inspections Rescue Training Risk Assessment Safe Chainsaw Operation Safety Associations Safety Consulting Safety Meeting Sawmills Tools & Checklists Tree Planting