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Benefits of Hiring NCSO Onsite Safety Personnel for Construction

When you hire NCSO onsite safety personnel for your construction projects, you're taking a significant step toward elevating safety standards. NCSO (National Construction Safety Officer) certified individuals are trained to recognize and mitigate potential hazards, ensuring a safer work environment for everyone involved.

Preventing Fatalities Through Fall Protection Anchor Inspections

When working at elevated job sites, each piece of equipment in a fall protection system should be inspected regularly to ensure it's robustly anchored. With falls accounting for over 30% of all construction and manufacturing fatalities, fall protection anchor inspections cannot be understated.

How Often Should You Update Your Fall Protection Course Certification?

Falls account for a significant chunk of workplace accidents. These accidents often result in significant injuries, even from relatively low heights. For this reason, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety recommends enrolling employees in a fall protection course if they regularly work at heights of 10 ft or higher.

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Is H2S Awareness the Same as the H2S Alive Training Course?

In your profession, you have probably heard the terms H2S Alive and H2S awareness. However, it is likely that if you are new to the field that you don’t know the difference between the two. Is the H2S Alive training course the same as an H2S awareness course?

Everything You Need to Know Before Taking a Fall Protection Course

A fall protection course is a beneficial course for any workers that will be working at heights. If you wonder if a fall protection course is the right course of action for you and your team, you want to get all the facts before proceeding. Fall protection training is designed to help eliminate workplace hazards.

Who Should Take the H2S Alive Training Course?

The H2S Alive training course is mandatory for many occupations. Most of the occupations that need belong to the gas, oil, and drilling industries, as well as the exploration, maintenance, and processing of heavy oil sands. 

What a Fall Protection Course Can Do for You

A fall protection course is designed to help anyone who is going to be working at the height of 10 feet or above. A training course will help give you and your employees the skills they need to handle any emergency at height and how to effectively work at height safely.

Taking an H2S Alive Training Course Can Save Your Life

Anyone who works in the petroleum and gas industries is at some point going to come into contact with hydrogen sulfide (H2S). To be safe in your industry you must take an H2S Alive training course to ensure that you are up to code on all the current safety procedures when dealing with this potentially deadly gas.

What Training You Need to Know Before Entering a Confined Space

Asphyxiations, entanglements, and falls are among a vast number of other potentially dangerous things that can happen when working in confined spaces. No one wants to hear that there is an emergency, but they happen. That is why you must be aware of onsite confined space and fall rescue plans before work even begins.

Why Everyone Working at Height Needs a Fall Protection Course

Protecting worker's lives is not only an employer’s moral duty; it is a legal responsibility. When workers are going to be working at heights, it is essential that these employees learn about fall protection. Taking a fall protection course can be the difference between a full life and a quick death.

The Proper Way to Inspect Your Fall Protection Equipment

Accidents happen as it is apart of every workforce. However, there are some accidents that are avoidable. You want to make sure that before every job, you execute a fall protection equipment inspection to ensure that the equipment used meets all safety standards.

Why Is It Important to Take an H2S Alive Training Course?

Working in the Petroleum industry in and around Edmonton, it is mandatory to take the H2S alive training course,. Any workers who may potentially come in contact with hydrogen sulfide gas must understand how to handle contact with this potent gas to avoid devastating consequences.

Fall Protection Equipment Inspections Ensure Everyone’s Safety

The general workplace records a total of 100,000 deaths and injuries yearly caused by falls. The fall statistics are rising due to poor or lack of fall protection training. The second reason is the wrong choice and use of equipment for specific tasks, and lastly, failure to properly inspect the fall protection equipment.

We get a lot of questions about rescue standards and how long a rope rescue or high angle rescue course should be.  I will attempt to explain the common practice and due diligence in the following paragraphs. In this blog post, I would just like to clarity some of the confusion around the rope rescue training of onsite workers and tradesmen versus a professional rescue team on site.  

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There Are Many Varieties of Guardrails and Handrails, Which one is Right for You?

Can you differentiate between a handrail and a guardrail? Often the two are used interchangeably. However, a guardrail is a barricade installed at the perimeter of a raised surface such as balconies or walkways. While a handrail is any horizontal or sloping railing especially on escalators or stairways on which you can grasp by the hand.

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Learn More About Fire Extinguishers & Fire Safety Through Our Course

You have seen fire extinguishers on the shelves in stores. Are you curious what happens when you press the trigger? How big of a fire will it put out?

If you want to answers to those questions and more, we offer a class on fire safety. We teach how to act and react around fire. You will learn about fire theories and concepts. We will give you the chance to use a live fire extinguisher against our controlled fire pit.

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In Need of a Fall Protection Course?

Did you know there are 60,000 fatal accidents yearly on construction sites globally? According to the International Labor Organization, that translates to one serious fall every ten minutes. 

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Rope Access Work

This is an overview of some projects we have completed over the last couple of years.

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Do You Know How To Properly Inspect Fall Protection Equipment?

The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR) requires that you inspect your fall protection gear frequently especially before each use. Also, follow the manufacturer's recommendation on the frequency of inspection. Do you know how to properly inspect fall protection equipment?

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Do Your Workers Need a Fall Protection Course?

Every day, four construction workers lose their lives, often from preventable accidents. Everyone involved needs to play their part in minimizing and eliminating the risk of falling. For employers, one of the best ways to do this is through fall protection training. The

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Safety Equipment Rental & Sales in Alberta

MI Safety can rent you Horizontal Lifelines, Vertical Lifelines, Guardrail Systems, Tripods, Winches, Fall Protection Equipment and Fall Arrest Equipment for your temporary work site.

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Safety - Is Your Company Doing it Right?

Safety can be confusing. That confusion can have some horrible side effects if things go wrong. While your intentions may be in the right place, if your practices are unknowingly incorrect you could be facing the loss or injury of a co-worker, investigations, fines or perhaps a closing of your entire company.

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Is Online Sufficient or Do I Need Classroom Training?

Are you new to the industry and safety training? Are you unsure whether you can complete online training or if you should take your safety course in a classroom? This blog will help you determine which is the best safety training for your scope of work.

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Specializing in Fall Protection for Rig Work and Fall Rescue for Rig Work

This is the Enform approved Fall Protection Course for drilling and service workers. It is a 16-hour course designed for workers such as Floor Hands, Motor Hands, Derrick Hands, and Drillers. It is also often taken by service companies such as Loggers, Cementers, Frac Workers, Top Drive Mechanics, and Electricians. This two day course is much more in-depth than the standard one day training course that most construction workers take and has an extensive practical component, which is held outdoors on the drilling and service training rigs located at our site.

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Why Can't We All Just Get Along?

Bullying, Sexual Harassment, Conflict Management, Violence in the Workplace - All phrases that we've gotten used to hearing. But when it "strikes" your workplace you want to know how to manage it; respectfully, quickly and legally.

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Keep Christmas Bright

The Christmas season can be such a beautiful time of giving, family and kindness. Unfortunately, it can also be a time for accidents, injuries and even deaths. Let's all take some time to focus on safety to get us through the holidays.

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Confined Space Hazard Levels

Various jurisdictions and groups have created ranking systems to classify the level of hazard in a confined space. Though various systems exist, they all have similarities. All Confined Space entries on the OSSA Members worksites must comply with the OSSA Regional Code of Practice.

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Well, it's been 2 1/2 years since you took Fall Protection training. All those instructor lessons are starting to get foggy...and you might have checked the back of your eyelids once or twice that day 2 1/2 years ago. After all, you didn't take your training at MI Safety and your instructor was booooor-riiiiing, you'd just finished a night shift and besides, you've taken the class umpteen million times already.

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Play Safe with Telehandlers and Forkllifts

Often, we think we have sufficient training if we've used a forklift here or there growing up on a farm or at a previous jobsite. But each machine has different specifications and it's critical that you receive proper training on each unit.

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What Do You Really Know About CPR?

When it comes to CPR in Edmonton, it is not as straightforward as you might think. CPR training & knowledge has more uses that preparing you to save a life.

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Why MI Safety is the Right Choice

The safety industry in Alberta boomed right along with the oilfield industry. You can find a safety training company in almost any town located close to industry hot spots. As long as your company will accept the training certificate, it doesn't really matter where you go, does it? At MI Safety, we think it does.

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Ensure Your Farm is Ready for 2017

Starting in 2017 the grace period will be up for farms to have their safety programs in place. If you've lived on a farm your entire life this can seem very overwhelming and you may not even be sure where to start.

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PPE - According to Law??

The majority of us are familiar with and use PPE regularly at our work sites. But are we truly familiar with PPE according to OH&S Legislation? Being familiar with the requirements can protect you as an employee or an employer. Oh yeah, and it can also save your life.

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Packing a Lunch = Work Safety?

Is it possible that what we pack ourselves for lunch can have an impact on overall job safety? Yes! Absolutely. How often have we set out to work and forgotten, didn't have time, or didn't feel like planning a lunch or snack for the following day's work? This can be especially true if you're working long, demanding hours. But the wrong lunch, or the lack of a lunch, can have an impact on your ability to work safely.

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Winter - Risky Business

Working in Alberta you have to be prepared to work smart and stay safe in extreme winter temperatures. At MI Safety we have a variety of online courses to help you properly prepare for winter. Dressing properly, staying alert to hazards and taking proper precautions is an important part of our winter routines. 

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How First Aid Courses Benefit You

You've probably heard why first aid courses are useful for your Edmonton workplace but did you know that a first aid course is useful outside of work too?

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Winter Driving Safety Tips

With winter right around the corner, it's a good idea to start preparing for winter driving now with some safety training in Edmonton that could save you big time.

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4 Reasons Why Employees Need to Take a First Aid Course

You hear it time and again from those guys in health and safety, saying how it's important to work safe and follow procedures. They aren't just saying it for the sake of saying it. We have 4 reasons why you and your employees should take first aid courses in Edmonton.

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Put a Glove on It for Hand Protection

You probably don't think about your hands a lot while your onsite. You also probably don't think about what would happen if your hands got injured because they weren't properly protected with safety equipment in the Edmonton area.

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When It Comes to Safety Common Sense Isn't Enough

When it comes to staying safe while on the job, just having common sense isn't going to help anyone because different people have experienced different things. It's with the right safety training in Edmonton that you can be prepared to work safely.

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The Importance of Safety Equipment Inspections

If you aren't doing inspections on your safety equipment on a regular basis then you probably aren't following OH&S legislation. We explain why inspections on safety equipment is important and how safety training in Edmonton can help.

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Common Confined Space Monitoring Mistakes

Working in confined spaces is a tough and dangerous task. There are numerous hazards you have to be aware of and neglect of one consideration can be fatal. Here are some confined space monitoring mistakes that often prove to be fatal.

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