Safety

It is recommended that outdoor workers develop a workplace heat stress prevention plan.

The Occupational Health and Safety Act requires employers to ensure workers are supervised and trained properly.

Thanks to the Landscape Ontario Garden Centre Sector Group, garden centres across Canada have a new tool to train employees.

New requirements will force employers to ensure that all workers and supervisors complete occupational health and safety awareness training programs.

A new guide, designed to assist in developing a health and safety system, is now available to members of Landscape Ontario.

In the landscape industry, landscape architects and contractors are required to produce as-built drawings.

The poster summarizes workers’ health and safety rights and responsibilities and the responsibilities of employers and supervisors.

When heat is combined with other stresses such as hard physical work, loss of fluids, fatigue or some medical conditions, it may lead to heat–related illness, disability and even death.

Landscape crews at Humphries Landscape Services start each day playing bingo .

The Ministry of Transportation has developed a guide to provide general information and clarification for the laws that apply to farm equipment, and select provisions that apply to farm trucks.