Daily Schedule:
8:00am - Registration and coffee (1st day only)
8:30am - Session begins
5:00pm -  Adjournment
Breakfast, two refreshment breaks and lunch are provided daily

Description:

Most construction accidents are the result of equipment failures or temporary structure failures. These failures occur because of lack of know-how, coordination, care and attention to detail. The planning and selection of the right equipment and the planning, design and execution of temporary works can also make or break the schedule and profitability of a project.

This one-day seminar will concentrate on the following:

• Recognizing and dealing with potential hazards on construction sites
• Provisions of regulations, codes and standards that address temporary structures and construction equipment
• The design, erection, inspection, maintenance and dismantling of temporary structures
• Fall arrest regulations, codes and standards and the design of temporary and permanent fall arrest systems

Target Audience:

Owners, Project Managers, Project Supervisors,  Project Engineers. Health and Safety Personnel and Designers

Course Outcomes:

• Understand the legislated requirements for safety on a construction site
• Know what your duty is on a construction site (The employer, owner, constructor, supervisor, engineer or worker) under the Act
• Provide insight on the hazards normally found on construction sites, Various examples of construction site accidents, which HITE Engineering has investigated, will be a discussed
• Learn how to avoid mishaps, incidents and accidents on construction sites
• Understand the design requirements, inspection and safe use of temporary structures and construction equipment to meet the requirements of the Occupational health and Safety Act,  Regulations and current applicable standards

Program Outline

• Welcome & Introduction
• Recognizing and dealing with potential hazards. And exercising due diligence
  in the workplace
  
• Case studies will be used.
  • Scaffolds & Work platforms - The design requirements of frame and tube & clamp scaffolds, outrigger scaffolds, pumpjack scaffolds, and multi-point suspended scaffolds.
    
  • Regulation and Standards requirements for the safe erection, use, inspection and dismantling of scaffolds and work platforms.
• Fall Protection Systems:
  
  • The design requirements of fall protection systems.
    
  • Fall arrest requirements in the Regulations.
• Forms, False work, Shoring & Re-shoring
  
  • The design, erection and inspection of formwork, false work, shoring and re-shoring
• Mobile & Tower Cranes:
  
  • The selection and safe operation, inspection and maintenance of a mobile and tower crane
    
  • Man baskets pinned or suspended from the boom of a mobile crane
    
  • Rigging equipment design, selection, inspection and rejection criteria
• Elevated work platforms and Aerial devices:
  
  • The design requirement of elevated work platforms
    
  • Safety requirements in operating an elevating work platform and aerial devices
    
  • Inspection, maintenance and certification requirements
• Excavation and trenching 
  
  • Open Forum- Questions & Answers
• Closing Remarks and Final Adjournment

Instructor:

Ralph Balbaa, M.Eng, P.Eng., President, HITE Engineering. Ralph has over thirty years of experience in the design and project management of commercial, industrial buildings and bridges, accident investigation and litigation support, welding design, and inspection, design, testing and certification of mobile tower cranes and elevating platforms; including seven years as an Engineering Consultant with the Ministry of Labour. Ralph assisted in writing the regulatory requirements for a Pre-Start Health and Safety Review and was a member of the PEO committee on establishing standards for Engineers. A leader in his field he is a member of the following CSA standards technical committees: CSA Z150 (Mobile Cranes), CSA C225 (Aerial Devices), CSA Z271 (Powered Platforms), CSA B354 (Aerial Platforms), CSA Z91-02 “(H &S Code for Suspended Equipment Operations) and CSA Z248 (Tower Cranes).