Forest Products
How WSN serves Ontario Forest Products Industries
Forestry Sector
WSN provides occupational health and safety resources, training, ergonomic, and industrial hygiene support and consulting for the Ontario forestry sector, including conventional and mechanical logging, milled wood products (including wood container, pallet manufacturing, and structural wood products), sawmills, silviculture; and veneer, plywood, and wood preservation.
Free forestry health and safety resources, including guidelines, safety talks, posters, and more.
Risk Assessments and Root Cause Analyses
Sawmill sector - Top risk: Substance use
Logging sector
Paper, Printing, and Converting sector
WSN provides occupational health and safety resources, training, ergonomic, and industrial hygiene and consulting for for the Ontario paper, printing, and converting sector, including corrugated and solid fibre boxes, folding cartons, paper products; printing, platemaking, and binding; and pulp, newsprint, and specialty papers.
Free paper, printing, and converting health and safety resources, including guidelines, safety talks, posters, and more.
Risk Assessments and Root Cause Analyses
Pulp and paper sector - Top Risk: Inadequate or improper lockout of machinery
Corrugating sector - Top Risk: Inadequate or improper lockout of machinery
Corrugating sector - Top Root Causes of Pedestrian-Mobile Equipment Incidents
Health and Safety Specialists
WSN Health and Safety Specialists for the forestry sector and paper, printing, and converting sector are located across Ontario. Get expert help to identify, assess, and control your hazards, and help your company achieve a vision of every worker, home safe and healthy.
Training
WSN has an extensive catalogue of sector-specific training courses designed and delivered by health and safety experts.
Health and Safety Excellence program
The WSN Health and Safety Excellence program provides Ontario businesses a clear roadmap on how to improve workplace health and safety. The Excellence program is a performance-based rebate program developed by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). Participants create safer workplaces and earn both financial and non-financial rewards.
Safe Workplace Ontario (SWO) program
The Safe Workplace Ontario (SWO) certification program, established in 1997, is a third-party health and safety designation program for Ontario businesses. This voluntary audit process allows forestry firms to continuously monitor and improve their health and safety programs and procedures.
Industry Advisory Committee
The WSN Forest Products advisory committee meets four times a year to provide leadership and input to help influence future health and safety programs, products and services in support of sector needs.
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Hazard Alerts
WSN encourages companies to submit hazard alerts. WSN works with firms to draft a hazard alert for distribution to firms in similar industries.