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November 6, 2026
Fall Prevention Month: What Fall Protection Training Should Cover

Quick answer: Fall protection training should teach workers to assess fall hazards, choose and inspect the right system, and follow a written rescue plan. In Canada, provincial OHS law requires employers to train any worker exposed to a fall hazard. The strongest programs pair that knowledge with a supervisor's hands-on…

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November 6, 2026

Fall Prevention Month: What Fall Protection Training Should Cover

Quick answer: Fall protection training should teach workers to assess fall hazards, choose and inspect the right system, and follow a written rescue plan. In Canada, provincial OHS law requires…
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close up of hand holding a fire extinguisher.
October 1, 2026

Fire Prevention Starts With the Label: What WHMIS Teaches About Workplace Fire Risk

Quick answer: At work, fire prevention starts with identifying what's in the building. WHMIS labels and Safety Data Sheets tell workers which products can burn, what they react with and…
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Close up of safety hard hat held by a worker's arm.
September 17, 2026

Danatec Wins Three 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards

Forty years of building safety training to the standard that governs it just got a peer review. Danatec has now won the same three Readers' Choice categories two years in…
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First aid being administered to an injured worker at a jobsite, illustrating incident response and hazard control on a Joint Health and Safety Committee.
July 8, 2026

JHSC Certification Part 1 Updated for 2026: What Ontario Employers and Committee Members Need to Know

The short answer As of July 1, 2026, Danatec's JHSC Certification Part 1 course reflects the latest requirements from Ontario's Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development (MLITSD). The…
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April 15, 2026

Danatec Adds Shift OHS Reasonable Cause Supervisor Training to Its Course Catalog 

Knowing when reasonable causes exist is one of the hardest calls a supervisor has to make. Now there's reliable training to help them get it right. Danatec has reached an agreement…
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April 3, 2026

Before anyone digs this Spring, here’s what you should know.

Every April, Canada and the United States observe Dig Safe Month. It's a reminder that ground disturbance work, including excavation, trenching, potholing, and boring, carries serious risk when it's done without adequate planning or proper training.…
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March 27, 2026

Your LMS Is Already Running. Here Is How to Get Compliance Training Into It.

If you manage compliance training for a large organization in a regulated industry across Canada, you already know how this plays out.  Your team needs WHMIS training. Or TDG. Or…
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March 20, 2026

Women in Safety & Compliance: Meet Addy, the Instructor Behind Danatec’s Instructor-Led Training

International Women’s Day may have passed on March 8, but the focus it brings should not end when the calendar turns. It is still a meaningful time to recognize the…
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March 17, 2026

It’s National Ladder Safety Month: Here’s What Every Canadian Workplace Needs to Know About Fall Protection

Falls aren't just a leading workplace hazard. They're the leading cause of workplace fatalities in Canada, year after year. And yet the majority of those incidents share one thing in common: they were preventable. March…
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