"On behalf of Battlefield Newfoundland I have to forward a huge thank you for your technician's services this year. He has gone beyond the call of duty to help us get through the last couple of months of processing equipment. If more of our vendors were like this it would make our job so much easier."
Robert Simms, Service Administrator
Battlefield Equipment, Mount Pearl Newfoundland
"I have been working with Domson Engineering for over 10 years on various aspects in our high profile projects. Domson has always come to the table with cost effective ideas and solution minded staff that get the job done."
Steve Matthews, G.S.C. / Construction Manager, Structural Steel Division
E.S. Fox Ltd.
"We will be using Domson in the future for any NDT work. The response and work your staff did was excellent. My own Level III guy was very impressed."
Joseph W. Peckan, Manager of Quality Engineering, Safety and Environmental Systems
Welded Tube of Canada
"Domson's NDT testing of the chairlift cable was extremely thorough and professional and would highly recommend their services."
Don Horner
Ski Valley, Minnedosa Manitoba
"Excellent work in an accelerated time period. Thank you for your support."
Steve Watts, Technical Support Manager, Americas
Rolls-Royce Energy, CSB
"Thanks for all your work on designing our challenging lift at Whitby Co-gen. It was good to see a lift go as planned without any unexpected problems."
Gary Epps, Electrical & Power Supply Technician
Whitby Cogeneration L.P.
June 2010
Ministry of Labour June / July safety blitz on construction equipment
Original article appeared in Hamilton Spectator, May 27, 2010, by Danielle Wong
The province is launching a two-month safety blitz on construction equipment hazards at sites across Ontario, Minister of Labour Peter Fonseca announced yesterday at Mohawk College.
The ministry's inspectors will be visiting construction workplaces next month and July to check for hazards relating to the operation and maintenance of heavy and light equipment, as well as the training and supervision of workers using the equipment, Fonseca said.
"I'm announcing this one in advance so there's absolutely no excuse for non-compliance," he said, at Mohawk's construction site for its Centre of Entrepreneurship, Learning and Innovation. The blitz will target sites where equipment hazards are inherent and where businesses have had a record of safety issues, Fonseca said.
The upcoming safety blitz is one of several on the way.
"Workplace safety is a matter of life and limb," Fonseca said. "And at the end of the day we want to ensure that every worker goes home safe and sound to their families."
According to the ministry, 34 Ontario workers died between April 1, 2005 and March 31, 2008, after being struck or crushed by construction equipment or material they were handling using that gear. Five of 16 construction worker fatalities in the province last year were caused by direct contact with construction equipment or the material it was moving.
The ministry's latest blitz on fall hazards at construction sites, stemming from the Christmas Eve deaths of four migrant workers in a swing stage failure in Toronto, found problems at more than half of the 2,800 sites it audited.
"The results of this blitz and all blitzes are our call to action," Fonseca said.
Anyone worried about a construction site can call the ministry at 1-877-202-0008. A toll-free reporting line is coming this summer.
May 2010
Above Ground Storage Tank Inspection and New
Digests
Did you know that we offer above ground storage tank inspections to meet regulatory and API requirements? Yes, we can! Check out the information in Our Industries section by clicking here.
We've also added two recent Domson Digests to our Technical Notes section. This is the first time we've issued two in one month (and what a month!).
Click here. Read all about the new CSA standard Z-151 "Concrete Pumps and Placing Booms" and the inspection requirements .
Click here. We've also published a digest about overhead crane inspections, sparked by some recent findings at a site that had their cranes inspected annually, but had never had a full NDT inspection performed. Read the digest and see the pictures of the cracks that were revealed with NDT.