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Fire prevention – Working smoke alarms
…Seven ways to avoid interruption to your operations
by Jennifer Boone
Would you ever drive down the road without your seatbelt? Your answer is probably no! Smoke alarms are for your home as seatbelts are for your car. They are there to help protect you and your family. When you hear the smoke alarm go off, you may only have seconds to safely escape from your home. That is why early detection of fire is absolutely vital. Only working smoke alarms in your home provide you with the precious seconds that you and your family need to safely escape. Most of us may not realize that we could be breaking the law, and liable for a $235 fine, because we are not following the new Fire Code amendment that was effective March 1, 2006. This amendment made it law for all Ontario homes to have working smoke alarms on every storey of the home and outside all sleeping areas. Despite publicity over the eight years since the law changed, statistics here and across Ontario point to a problem that isn’t going away. It was hoped that there would have been a reduction of the number of preventable fire-related injuries and fatalities, but the statistics are still showing that, on average, fire kills eight people each week in Canada with residential fires accounting for 73 percent of these fatalities. Of the 73 percent, 66 percent of them occur in a
home without a working smoke alarm. Reading this statistic you can see how vital it is to have a working smoke alarm in your home. It could be the difference between life versus death. The St. Thomas Fire Department will conduct home safety audits
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People are hard-wired to get the job done. To do that, some will go so far as to take shortcuts or jury-rig repairs to hazardous machinery. Members of the St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commerce will understand how human nature intersects with the risks inherent in industrial machine shops, and the imperative of implementing machine guarding controls to keep our people safe from harm. The Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL) understands these points of intersection, too. That’s why the Ministry has scheduled a Health and Safety Blitz on machine safety in the workplace from now through December 14, 2014. Given the nature of our local industry, there’s a good chance an inspector will show up at your door. If they find guarding violations, they could write orders with a short compliance deadline, or even shut down equipment or machinery until the problem is resolved.
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Here are seven ways you can avoid interruption to your operations. 1. Inspect your own workplace before anyone else does. Being proactive is in your best interests. Conduct a proper hazard identification and risk assessment. Priorito help homeowners ensure their property is fire safe. A fire crew will stop by your home and examine the interior, check smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, as well as ensure a good visual address. As well, they will check for proper storage of flammable liquids, use of extension cords as permanent wiring and household wiring. For more information, or to set up an appointment for a fire safety inspection, you can call the office at St. Thomas’ main fire hall at 519-631-0210. There are many things that you are able to do on your own also to ensure that you don’t get a fine and to make sure
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you and your family have those few precious seconds to safely escape your home. Here are some suggestions: • Test your smoke alarms once a month and change the batteries two times a year. It is suggested that you change the batteries when you put your clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall. • Never remove the batteries from the smoke alarm. If nuisance alarms are a problem, try moving the alarm to another location or purchase an alarm with a hush feature that temporarily silences the alarm. • Replace smoke alarms every ten years. Some models last as little as five years though so regular testing will help determine if the alarm needs to be replaced sooner than the 10 years. • Make sure everyone in the household knows what to do if the smoke alarm goes off. • Develop a home fire escape plan and practice it with the entire household. If you were ever in the horrible situation where the use of a smoke alarm was necessary, the extra time it gives you and your family to escape to safety will be miraculous. As with fire every second counts! This column appears regularly in Business Beat and has been submitted by Jennifer Boone, RIB (Ont),CRM, a Broker/Advisor with Reith & Associates Insurance and Financial Services Limited, 462 Talbot Street, St. Thomas. Questions and comments on this column are welcomed by the writer at 519-631-3862 or via e-mail: info@ reithandassociates.com
tize your hazards, and prepare and execute a plan. 2. Give yourself time. Safeguarding a machine means setting aside the duct tape and giving yourself time to do it properly. You may need to design and fabricate an effective guard, conduct a pre-start health and safety review, or seek approval from management for additional resources. 3. Document, document, document. Supervisors should document any real or suspected guarding issues: a critical first step before seeking management’s support to implement the necessary controls. Complying with your legal responsibilities as outlined under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) is critical, and involves not only acting in a healthy and safe manner, but formalizing your program in writing. ...be well 4. Be well ininformed; formed. Know your options. Stay on know your top of guarding deoptions... velopments and solutions. Take courses. Visit machine guarding exhibitors at trade shows and speak with manufacturers and experts. In the realm of safeguarding, you’re rarely limited to just one solution. Choose the one most appropriate for your workplace. 5. Observe your workers. Supervisors need to spend time on the floor, observing what workers are actually doing. Understand the requirements of the job better than your workers do. What hazards are they
exposed to? Are workers following the rules and using the right personal protective equipment, or are they bypassing safeguard and, if so, why? 6. Open your toolbox. Sometimes safety messages are drowned out in the din of other workplace imperatives. Don’t let that happen. You can ignite an ongoing focus on injury prevention through many different means: toolbox talks, joint walk-arounds, pay cheque messages, signs, contests, one-on-one coaching, asking questions and listening, and more. 7. Make this blitz your call to action. Boost interest in machine guarding by alerting everyone at your workplace—workers, supervisors, plant managers, employer—to the upcoming blitz. Ask for ideas on how to improve safety. Check that all issues and concerns are on the table. Emphasize the underlying rationale for diligence: we don’t want anyone to get hurt. For more information: Look for simple, easy-to-use resources provided at no cost by our trusted health and safety advisor, Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS), at www.wsps.ca. Search on “safeguarding and lockout” for applicable legislation, consulting, public training, self-paced training, pre-recorded webinars and downloads. View the WSPS webinar on the Machine Guarding Blitz co-presented by the Ministry of Labour at http://www.wsps.ca/Shop/Training/Webinars/ MOL-Machine-Guarding-Blitz.aspx”
Business Beat Published by Metroland Media Group Ltd., and delivered to businesses in St. Thomas and Elgin Country For complete information on the St. Thomas and District Chamber of Commerce, reach us at: 115-300 South Edgeware Rd., St. Thomas, Ontario N5P 4L1 Telephone: 519-631-1981 Fax: 519-631-0466 E-Mail: mail@stthomaschamber.on.ca Website: www.stthomaschamber.on.ca President & CEO Bob Hammersley Accounting Coordinator Susan Munday Member Services Warren Allen
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St. Thomas Economic Development Corp. Director: Monty Fordham Fordham Brightling & Associates Lawyers Director: Brian Helmer Reith & Associates Insurance & Financial Director: Jeff Kohler City of St. Thomas Director: Phil Mauer Phil Mauer & Associates Inc. Director: Ginette Minor Alexelle Slipcovers & Décor Director: Rob Mise myFM 94.1 Director: Allan Weatherall Elgin Military Museum – Project Ojibwa
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Opposition to the federal government’s proposed Bill C-51 spilled out onto the streets of London Saturday. Close to 300 protesters, both young and old, representing a broad crosssection of the population turned out for a rally held at the gates of Victoria Park against the legislation. One of many Day of Action protests held across Canada, speakers addressed the crowd, voicing concerns over the anti-terrorism bill currently before Parliament. That legislation, as proposed, would give authorities wider ranging policing powers as well as increasing their ability to detain alleged terror suspects. While bound by a common opposition to Bill C-51, the reasons for attending Saturday’s demonstration were varied. Some, like Peter Aunger, who made the trek from Exeter, want to see the government heed the advice of experts and amend the bill with provisions for more oversight. Aunger feels this would help avoid the possibility of creating more problems than C-51 would solve. As an example, he pointed to past abuses of the current system, such as the ▼
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The London Police Service will examine its domestic violence policy and how its officers handled a recent incident after it took more than 72 hours for charges to be laid in a case involving child abandonment. At about 5:40 a.m. on March 10, an eight-week-old infant was discovered in a car seat in an Emery Street driveway. The neighbor who found the child, who wasn’t seriously injured in the cold air, called 911. Police went to the residence, where they found the father asleep. He was arrested for breaching conditions. A case that was already exceptional took
a strange twist when police announced that the baby’s mother had been arrested at 2 a.m. for allegedly driving impaired by drugs. The woman told police she’d fled from domestic abuse and thought she had her baby with her. This is where the police will be investigating themselves. While they were alerted to the alleged domestic abuse, only three days later were charges laid, potentially leaving the woman in harm’s way during that time lapse. While police brass say policy was followed regarding the impaired driving, and the child abandonment, “the domestic vio-
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lence investigation was determined to have not been completed expeditiously and was not consistent with LPS policy and procedures. The circumstances were immediately reviewed, the investigation was continued, and charges were laid on March 13,” police said in a release Monday afternoon. Investigators will determine if policy was followed and if it was done so in a timely manner. The child is now in the care of CAS. The names of the parents cannot be divulged but police indicated in their original news release that the father is from St. Thomas. – London Community News
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Mary Fisher and her husband got out of tobacco farming when the bottom fell out of the industry, retiring to a quiet life in rural eastern Elgin County. At the time, the Bayham resident wasn’t expecting her municipal councillors to agree to guarantee a $6 million loan for a tourist attraction that she and a lot of her nearly 7,000 neighbours worried would sink as well. Those questions persisted Monday evening (March 16) as more than 300 people packed a hall in Vienna for an information session on the Elgin Military Museum’s HMCS Ojibwa and Bayham’s relationship with it. “We sold the farm and bought a sub,” she said with a wry laugh after the meeting. “You have to laugh, what else can you do?” Packed with grumbling townsfolk, the meeting featured a lot of financial and legal “jargon” from Mayor Paul Ens and the
township’s CAO, Paul Shipley but no questionand-answer period. Instead Ens urged residents to email questions to Ojibwa@bayham.on.ca or drop written comments off at the municipal office so they could be accurately tracked. The bottom line is that unless the museum comes up with $6 million by Friday (March 20) it will have defaulted on its loan from the Royal Bank of Canada. Since Bayham councillors voted 3-2 in 2012 to guarantee the loan, the township is legally on the hook and will effectively become a creditor of the museum. Ens said the township has tried to get financial information from the museum about Project Ojibwa, referring to a list of eight increasingly frequent meetings between the two entities leading up to Dec. 22, when council directed staff to have an audit of the museum done but staff there wouldn’t cooperate, again failing to produce financial documents. See OJIBWA, Page 19
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Mischevious Friday the 13th in Port Stanley: OPP
Police briefs for March 19 Two Port Stanley men are saddled with more than a dozen charges after a mischievous Friday the 13th. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said they believe the men are responsible for two break-ins that happened between 4:30 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. on Friday (March 13), at the Highland Drug Mart and the Tapas Bar and Grill. It seems the culprits made away with cash and pills at the drug mart and stopped by the bar for a snack, in the words of the OPP, “a variety of food items.” Both men were arrested the next day.
Michael James Martin, 32, was charged with three counts of possession of property obtained by crime, two counts of break and enter a place (and) commit indictable offence and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. He was held for a show cause hearing on Sunday. Denarryl Edwin Critchfield, 53, was charged with three counts of possession of property obtained by crime, five counts of possession of a schedule I substance (other) and possession of a schedule II substance (cannabis resin, less than one gram).
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Critchfield was released on a promise to appear in court April 20. None of the charges against either individual have been proven in court. Anyone with additional information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122 or 519-631-2920 or the nearest police authority. Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477, where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000. Citizen foils drunk driver Police are thanking an alert citizen after an accused drunk driver was arrested in St. Thomas Saturday (March 14). The 52-year-old St. Thomas man was arrested on Balaclava Street after being spotted by a citizen driving erratically on South Edgeware Road moments earlier. It was 11:10 a.m. He failed a roadside screening device, was arrested and brought to the station for further tests, where he blew over at more than twice the legal limit. He was charged with over 80 and released with a future court date. Police Chief Darryl Pinnell emphasized
the assist from the concerned citizen on social media Monday (March 16), tweeting “can’t do it without (you).” Anyone with information about any crime is asked to contact the St. Thomas Police Service at 519-631-1364 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Crime Stoppers is also available through a link at www.stps.on.ca. Charge after domestic St. Thomas police charged a London man following a domestic assault Thursday (March 12). According to a press release officers were called to an Elm Street residence just after 8 p.m. They arrested the 41-year-old London resident and released him with conditions including a future court date. The victim “did not require medical attention.” Police were kept busy with a pair of other incidents that night, responding to reports of drunk and disorderly men in the early hours of Friday (March 13). Officers were called out to the first incident at about 2 a.m. when a cabbie “was unable to reason” with an intoxicated 41-year-old St. Thomas man. See POLICE, Page 13
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southwest region. Previously, seniors in many communities across Ontario did not have access to publicly funded clinic-based physiotherapy because these clinics were not geographically balanced under the old funding model. Now, clinic-based physiotherapy is being offered to 90,000 additional Ontarians in more communities as part of the government's plan to increase access to physiotherapy, and exercise and fall prevention classes
across the province. In addition, the province is providing funding to Community Care Access Centres to provide in-home physiotherapy to 60,000 more individuals and to help eliminate waiting lists. Helping seniors stay healthy and active supports the government's Action Plan for Health Care and its commitment to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place. It is also part of the government's economic plan that is creating jobs for
today and tomorrow by focusing on Ontario's greatest strengths -- its people and strategic partnerships. QUICK FACTS •Ontario is investing $156 million annually to support enhanced access to physiotherapy, and exercise and fall prevention services to more than 200,000 additional seniors and eligible patients. •Eligibility for publicly funded physiotherapy has not changed. This service is available to seniors, youth
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