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SERVICES

Safety Consulting Services

  • Safety Program Review:  A review of your current safety program, generally taking 1- 2 days depending on your current program, and exsisting paperwork. This will include a review of your paperwork, a site tour, and speaking with employees.  A detailed list of recommendations will be generated to help the workplace reach safety compliance. This will include all applicable regulations as well as common industry standards.
  • Development of a Safety Program to ensure safety compliance.   This includes creation of a safety manual, and all applicable safe job policies and procedures, creation of company rules, harassment policy, creation of an orientation etc. This includes internal training of employees to ensure understanding of the required elements.
  • Updating or creation of MSDS sheets to meet WHMIS Requirements. Management of safety paperwork and program to ensure regulatory compliance
  • Management of your safety system. This is a full service program which includes all of the training you require, leading OH&S and Toolbox meetings, compiling of paperwork, site inspections, WHMIS requirements, management of your safety manual updates, incident investigations and corrective actions, hazard assessments, statistics, evaluation of the PPE required, and development and training of an emergency response plan. This is usually done on a contract basis and starts with developing and implementing a safety program, and then regular visits to ensure all require tasks are being performed and documented.
  • Orientation Programs- creation of a safety orientation for your business, and providing orientating for new employees according to OH&S Regulations.
  • Supervisor Training- Under legislation, supervisors are required to have training to understand their duties of supervisors. This training is usually about a ½ day to a full day outlining the regulations they need to follow and enforce, as well as investigations and documentation required within their workplace.
  • Safety presentations for workplace safety days, including any of our training topics

Fall Protection Inspection

  • OH&S regulations require that inspection of fall protection equipment takes place according to manufacturer’s recommendations. All manufacturers follow ANSI standards and recommend an annual inspection done of all equipment is done by a manufacturer trained and competent person.
  • Hest offers inspection of all brands of equipment including Millar, MSA and DBI Sala and Protecta. An individual Certificate will be issued for each piece of equipment indicating if it should remain in service, and any minor deviations noted.

Toolbox Talks

  • Toolbox talks can be arranged as a refresher for already trained workers who need an update or reminder of topics such as how to inspect & wear fall protection, how to conduct a proper daily inspection on power mobile equipment, proper use, limitation and inspection of basic PPE, and various other topics.