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Posted on Monday, March 25, 2013 11:29 AM
On a daily basis, I deal with security company owners who lament their llow "bottom-line" revenue. They refuse to spend money on the safety training they are required to deliver to their workers. "I can't train or have a health & safety committee because I can't increase my billing rate to cover all I need to do. If I increase my billing the client will look for another security contractor."
In the UK the SIA took the following approach - it's a "buyer beware approach:""When the SIA was established in 2003, we conducted a broad examination of the entire industry.
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Posted on Monday, March 25, 2013 11:02 AM
I'm not against security workers making arrests or using appropriate force. What I am against is the lack of training delivered to security workers to exercise the aforementioned.
To those that are responsible for the delivery of UofF training (employers/clients), to meet the test of due diligence, that your training objectives include: job/task hazard analysis, a site specific risk assessment, documented training objectives, working alone or in isolation, supervision, workplace violence policy and procedures, workers right to refuse unsafe work, and a myriad of other requirements.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2013 7:33 AM
If you want another reason to be pissed off and understand why the First Nations have reached the point they have read this document. I know it's long but invest the time, it's history, but you'll understand better.
The Lands We Lost - A History of Cut-off Lands and Land Losses From Indian Reserves in British Columbia. ttp://www.ubcic.bc.ca/files/PDF/McKenna_McBride/lands.pdf |
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 7:30 AM
How many security companies & clients are refusing to allow their Jail Guards to wear protective vests?This decision out of Ontario may help you in your PPE argument.
Jail Guards Allowed to Wear Protective Vests Jail guards returned to work at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre after being allowed to wear protective vests. The dispute between the union and government arose from an incident in August when guards searching for a piece of missing metal in the facility refused to go inside until they were allowed to wear protective vests. Now, guards in every institution across Ontario may wear their protective vests at any time during the course of their duties. |
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 7:09 AM
This information applies to the security industry -
Aug. 29: Calls for Criminal Charges for Serious Safety Violators Family members of the victims of workplace incidents and the BC Federation of Labour met with the province’s justice and labour ministers about what the union describes as lax enforcement of Criminal Code provisions as to negligent employers, i.e., C-45. The union suggested that the police be brought in to investigate any incident in which a worker isseriously injured or killed and be properly trained to investigate OHS violations. |
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Posted on Friday, November 02, 2012 1:28 PM
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/31/bc-security-guard-takedown-wheelchair.html?goback=.gde_3775024_member_181051460
This is my response to this CBC story:
Hello,
I've just watched the piece on the fellow in the wheel
chair and Genesis security guards, entitled "excessive use of force by
private security guards".
There's enough in this 30 second video to know the 3 guards have
detained the fellow and he wasn't going anywhere. I don't care how many
disparaging words the security guards heard there was no reason for
them to respond in kind or use force. |
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Posted on Friday, November 02, 2012 11:26 AM
In the world of OHS, mobile apps are increasingly becoming another tool in the workplace health and safety toolbox.
http://www.cos-mag.com/Safety/Safety-Stories/Mobile-tools-for-OHS-%E2%80%93-theres-an-app-for-that.html
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Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:14 AM
I seem to be thinking a lot about Mr. Bajwa, the security guard that was recently so savagely beaten.
Please share this post.
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Surrey+security+guard+left+dead+after+merciless+beating+three+PoCo/7389478/story.html?goback=.gde_3775024_member_175266602
- I think about the utter lack of education security workers receive about their rights under Health & Safety Laws.
- I think about how little training exist for supervisor and their Health & Safety responsibilities.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:18 AM
There are a lot of misguided folks that think they can sue WorksafeBC: not so and here's why;
Worker Can’t Sue Employer, Co-Worker over Denied Workers’ Comp ClaimA worker filed a workers’ comp claim for
mental stress she said she suffered due to a co-worker’s conduct. The
claim was denied. So she sued her employer and the co-worker for breach
of a common law duty. The defendants argued that the workers’ comp law
bars such lawsuits. And the court agreed, ruling that it would undermine
the core policy of the workers’ comp scheme to have employers exposed
to lawsuits based on the scope of compensable claims under the law. |
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Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 10:49 AM
As Mr. Bajwa recovers from his injuries, think about the condition he was working under and why/
This is the Canadian contract security guard industry.
Former
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King writes:...
The Law of
Competing Standards is doubtless a part of the general Law of Competition,
under which the cheaper of two commodities gains in competition a preference
over the dearer. What Gresham discovered was an important sequence of the Law
of Competition as applied to coinage; namely, the disappearance, in the course
of time, of the superior metals. |
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