Accent Safety
72 Cooper Street L9W 5N5 Grand Valley, ON, Canada

As expected January and February are booking quickly for clients annual training sessions. I will be calling all of my regular clients to discuss your cycle of training topics and available training dates.

Returned home from providing Fire Dept. Chainsaw and Roof Vent training to 42 Fire Fighters in Kingsville, Ont. My two favourite junior fire fighters came to see Poppa and check out the roof vent training simulator. Great time had by all!

Labour Day has passed and the fall training calendar is filling fast. Traffic flagger, Trenching & excavation, Fire Dept. chainsaw, Fire Dept. emergency traffic control, Ontario Traffic Manual Book 7, Basic chainsaw and tree felling, Propane in the workplace, Pole chainsaw and tree trimming, Confined space entry operations with Bell Canada module, Propane & Thompson culvert steamer. Book your training soon to ensure a date.

Less than two weeks until the children go back to school and the yellow school buses return to their routes. Time to adjust our driving between school related activities and on going construction projects the roads are going to be a busy place this September. Let put away the cellphone, morning coffee travel mugs and concentrate on ones driving!

We have receiving a number of inquires in the past two weeks from individuals looking for chainsaw training. Our minimum class size is 5, maximum is 8. Ours is a full day training session, morning in the classroom, afternoon in a woodlot chainsaw in hand, finishing with the chainsaw on the bench for maintenance and sharpening. Individuals are added to our waiting list and as soon as we have enough confirmed for a class we will proceed.

The demand for new workers greatly exceeds the number of available workers. Worker retention is on the minds of many of my clients.

Belleville, a class of 11 trained in confined space entry operations and the Bell Canada CSE module.

Busy couple of weeks with Rotary Cut Off saw and our Basic Chainsaw Operation and Tree Felling programs.

It never fails to amaze me after a wind storm how people and the press are surprised by trees and their branches falling and injuring people or damaging property! A tree is a living growing plant that requires care and maintenance, just like cutting your lawn or a trip to the dentist. Property owners should do a review of the trees on their property and boulevard in front of their homes at least once a year, looking for problem. If you need call an Arborist to do the review. Trees add value to a property, but a sick tree or the incorrect specie of tree to close to a building, parked automobiles, overhead or underground utility can cause thousands of dollars in damage.

Water levels in rivers and lakes are high, the water is still very cold, Please educate your children and friends to stay away from deep, cold and fast flowing water.

Construction season has started! When you see the orange and black construction signs and cones, please slow down the construction workers are sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, father and mother earning a living and looking forward to going home at the end of the day.

Sunny warm weather is here, many kids have new bikes and are taking to the road for the first time. Please take time to ensure they have a properly fitted bicycle helmet and understand the rules of the road.

National Work Zone Awareness Week! #WorkZoneSafety is everybodys responsibility. Always use extra caution in work zones! #SafetyFirst

National Work Zone Awareness Week! #WorkZoneSafety is everybody’s responsibility. Always use extra caution in work zones! #SafetyFirst

Looks like another great year ahead, we are fully booked for March and April, with May booking quickly. May marks the start of our 14th year in business, a success we contribute to our customers. Thank you for your support, we appreciate you welcoming us into your workplace and allowing us to assist with your health and safety programs.

A friendly reminder to our valued customers, our spring training schedule is filling quickly call us to ensure your training needs are confirmed.

As you clean out your rain gutters and install your Christmas lights, remeber to look up before positionin your ladder, and set the ladder up one meter out for every 3 to 4 meters up. Have a safe and Happy Holiday Season.

Three examples of why you need to be trained in the safe maintenance and operation of chainsaws.

The word is Ontario is expected a above average winter with lots of snow. We have six confined space entry programs booked, looks like a lot of workers are going underground, to avoid winter.

Everyone please watch this video - do not ignore!!

Our clients who are regulated by the Industrial Establishment regulation 851 are keeping us busy with a combined Fall protection and Elevating work platform programs.

The Ontario Traffic Manual Temporary Conditions Book 7 revised in 2014 includes recommended best practices for traffic control at emergency scenes.

Accent Safety has offered our full day Basic Chainsaw Operation and Tree Felling course for 13 years. This course includes a module on chainsaw pole saws. We have received an inquiry for a stand alone course for pole saw operation and maintenance, and in turn have developed a half day program.

Fall always bring with it class bookings for our Propane CH-02-T and Thompson Steamer program. Thompson steamers are a low pressure boiler designed to generate steam at or below 15 psi for thawing frozen pipes and valves.

Fire Dept. chainsaw and ventilation simulator program this weekend in Norfolk County.

As we venture outdoors in wooded areasfor work and pleasure we need to be aware of the growing bear population in Ontario. Do not leave food unattended, lock it in a cooler in your vehicle, if you encounter a bear, stop and listen, are there cubs with the bear. Do not get between a bear and her cubs, slowly back away from the bear, do not make fast or threatening moves.

Our Confined Space Training Simulator has served the needs of nine customers (108 participants) since January 2017. This program consistently receives positive comments from the participants: Good balance of classroom workbook and hands on entry, work and rescue scenarios on the simulator. Simulator make the program, hands on in a safe but realistic underground utility vault simulation is the true learning experience. To all of our customers, Thank you for your comments, we strive to make our program educational and as realistic as possible.

With the warmer weather comes a higher demand for our very popular Basic Chainsaw Operation and Tree Felling program. This is a full day program, morning in the classroom, afternoon in the forest with chainsaw in hand, followed by chainsaws on the bench for cleaning, critical parts inspection, setting chain tension and chain sharpening.

2017 shaping up to be another very busy year. Many of our clients have already booked their annual training. We are in negotiations to provide bi-weekly health and safety audit services to wind energy projects. No time to think of retirement, having to much FUN. To all of our fiends and clients from 2016, we wish You and Yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Safe and Happy New Year.

As we transition into winter road conditions, encounter winter road maintenance vehicles and plan holiday travel we offer the following pictures as a reminder. Select the proper lane on our 400 series highways, remember the protocols at all way stop intersections, and remind yourself and your children that road maintenance vehicles have large blind spots where the driver cannot see you which places you in danger. Be informed, safe!

Remember the storms of last winter? Are your workers trained in the safe operation and maintenance of chainsaws? We offer a full day Basic Chainsaw Operation and Tree Felling course. Morning in the classroom, afternoon in the woodlot, finishing up with the saws on the bench for cleaning, critical parts inspection, setting chain tension and sharpeing the cutter chain.

Three weekend with the Fire Department Chainsaw simulator, Leamington, Windsor, and Ottawa.

As we prepare for the Christmas season many of use will be putting up Christmas lights and other decorations on and around our homes and businesses. Remember to Look Up and Look Out when erecting a ladder, stay away from overhead power lines. Use quality outdoor extension cords, plugged into Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter outlets. Respect electricity and you will enjoy and share the Christmas lights and decorations with your family and friends.

Does anyone see anything wrong in this picture? If you consider this acceptable work practices, please give us a call you need help with your health and safety program!

WHMIS - Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, has been amended in order to transition to a new international system that will match with goods being imports / exported. This transition requires workers to have a working knowledge of both the OLD WHMIS system (pictograms and MSDS - material safety data sheets), and the NEW WHMIS (restyled and new pictograms and SDS - safety data sheets) during the three year transition period.

Traffic Control Temporary Conditions Book7 sets out the recommended best practices for traffic control at work site on or beside public roadways. Our full day training program provides participants with an understanding of how to use Book 7 to develop and implement traffic control, and protection plans.