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Heat Stress, Wildfires & Other Hazards: How to Keep Your Workers Safe in Summer

Given the high temperatures Canada experiences in summer, the season brings its own set of health & safety challenges at work.

It is important that you prepare your workplace for the hot summer season, especially if your business requires outdoor work.

Besides having a heat stress plan in place, employers must also plan for other common hazards, such as wildfire smoke, severe weather events, deadly insects, and air quality.

As the employer, you are required under the law to take all reasonable precautions for the health and safety of your employees. This includes protecting your workers from summer hazards.

In this webinar, our experts, Olivia Cicchini and Robert Babcock, share guidance on how employers can provide a safe and healthy work environment to their staff in summer.

After watching the webinar, you’ll know:

Early signs and risk factors for heat stress
How to protect outdoor staff from summer insects
How to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke
And more...

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Meet Our Speakers

Olivia Cicchini, Employment Law Expert & Presenter, Peninsula Canada

A licensed paralegal, Olivia has significant insight into legal, HR, and employee management challenges faced by Canadian SMEs. 

She utilizes her employment law expertise to create relevant and comprehensive content to help small business owners stay compliant with employment standards and health & safety legislation.  

Olivia’s incisive commentary regularly appears on radio, websites and in newspapers. Her views have been featured on CBC Radio, CTV News, CP24, and Toronto Sun.

Robert Babcock, Health and Safety SafeWorkCheck Partner, Peninsula Canada

Robert is an experienced health and safety manager with a demonstrated history of ensuring the organizations within his portfolio have established a comprehensive and compliant OHS program and have effectively and efficiently maintained their Internal Responsibility System on an on-going basis.

He is passionate about educating business owners on both what their legal requirements are to establish a safe work environment as well as the substantial return on investment a health and safety program can be for all Canadian businesses.