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HEAlTH & SAfETY – CONT’D

safety training for Employees

A key component of safety is ensuring the workers are trained to properly and safely perform their

tasks. The Safety Team has the ability to conduct a number of classes on a variety of topics, and

providing this training keeps our team busy!

The Safety Team

provides training on:

• Working at heights

• Respirator it tesing

• Power elevated work plaform

The Safety Team
• Forklit

Jerry Gibson, Richard Holmes, Chris Keeping, Luc LaRoche, Alisa Perlstein
• First aid

• Surface miner Common Core

• Generic Frontline Supervisor

• WHMIS
• Lockout and tag

• Chainsaw safety

• Traic control person

Over the last four years, we’ve given many courses to quite a few Tomlinson employees, with

some attending more than one course:

Year
# workers trained
# courses given

2016 (to end of May)
1,109
113

2015
1,370
194

2014
826
156

2013
826
134

Did you know.

The Moodie Dr Asphalt Plant has been Tomlinson consistently has a lower

recognized by the Ontario Hot Mix Lost Time Injury Rate than the

Producers Association for 20 years with Provincial average

zero lost time injuries

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