Changing Seasons and Busy Times
Like many businesses in Ontario our work is seasonal, but this month we are supporting more customers than we have in any other month in our 12-year history.
Tundra Rescue completes WSIB Health and Safety Excellence Program
Tundra Rescue is pleased to announce that we have successfully completed the Foundation level of the Ontario WSIB Health and Safety Excellence program.
Do you need a confined space co-ordination document?
A co-ordination document is needed when more than one employer is required to work in a confined space in Ontario. Tundra Rescue can provide advice about what is needed.
What is Rope Access? …according to ChatGPT
Despite the growing use of rope access in Canada we find that it is still sometimes viewed as an emerging technology in industrial situations, and we still frequently speak to operational managers, project engineers and health and safety representatives that either may not be familiar with rope access at all, or may not fully understand […]
Do Confined Space Safety Incidents Still Happen?
Tundra Rescue was established in 2011 and we have now been providing confined space safety advice, support and rescue standby services for more than a decade. Besides the moral argument for taking confined space safety seriously – the notion that businesses should care about the welfare of their workers and should therefore proactively take measures […]
Tundra Rescue supports a complex water technology project
It might not look like much from this picture – just a few technicians working around a tripod above a manhole – but the picture represents just a very small part of the execution of one of the more complex confined space safety projects we have successfully accomplished to date. Supporting a large, multinational water […]
Helping our customers make changes at the start of the year
2023 has started well for Tundra Rescue and one of our first tasks this year was assisting an educational institution by removing some of the old, unwanted signs on their buildings using rope access techniques. .
Ontario Regulation 833, Respiratory Protection, and What it Means for Your Business
Any employer in Ontario who oversees a workplace where chemical or biological hazards are or reasonably could be present needs to be familiar with Regulation 833. Reg 833 lays out requirements for the protection of workers involved in the storage, handling, processing or use of chemical or biological agents, including the selection and use of respiratory protection equipment.
“I don’t know if you can help me but…”
We were recently asked by someone who was interested in supporting us as a technical service provider how we find our own customers. Although this is something we certainly think about a lot, like many other areas of life it sometimes takes a direct question from someone else to help us see new insights. In […]
Ontario Regulation 632/05 and What it Means for Your Business
Ontario Regulation 632/05 (O.Reg 632/05) governs how organisations should identify and safely manage access to confined spaces in Ontario.
O.Reg 632/05 has significant legal implications for a very large number of businesses in the province, however in our experience many businesses are also either unaware of the various operational and legal implications associated with O.Reg 632/05 or do not completely understand their responsibilities in relation to this regulation.