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September 26, 2025

Petroleum Safety Training Online: Flexible Options for Oil & Gas Professionals

Canada's petroleum industry ranks among the nation's highest-risk sectors. Workers face toxic gases, confined spaces, high-pressure systems, and remote operations daily. Safety training serves as their lifeline—not just a regulatory checkbox. Oil companies traditionally delivered petroleum safety training through classroom sessions and field exercises. Digital learning now drives more organizations…

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June 25, 2019

TDG Amendment Update – June 2019

SOR/2019-75 (Containers for Transport of Dangerous Goods by Rail SOR/2019-101 (Emergency Response Assistance Plan) SOR/2019-113 (Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Rail Security Regulations) Dear Danatec client, Transport Canada has amended…

June 20, 2019

Get $10,000 of Training Benefits For Your Ontario Employees

How to get $10,000 from the Canada-Ontario Job Grant For many businesses, training your workers can be a headache (especially when it hits your bottom line!). The alternative? Not training…

June 11, 2019

Key Facts Every Canadian Should Know About Tick Safety and Lyme Disease

With the rising rates of tick infection and Lyme disease in Canada, people are becoming more aware of the risk the outdoor activities and the necessary precautions — right? One…

June 10, 2019

Takeaways from the 2019 Cannabis Summit

Surprising to many, the capital of cannabis consumption in Canada is not British Colombia, but Alberta. As reported by StatsCan, in the last three months of 2019, consumption continues to…

May 6, 2019

Mental Health Issues: One of the Five Workplace Hazards

What employers can do to make the workplace safer for psychological well-being By Anna Bolton, Special to Danatec May 6-12 is the 68th annual Mental Health Week in Canada, and…

May 2, 2019

Update from the Training Sector

May Quarterly Update It was a busy and successful first quarter in our Safety line of business as we continued to provide industry leading safety solutions to new and existing…

April 9, 2019

What’s your safety pledge?

"We're in the business of sending you home safely" Danatec has been the leader in WHMIS and TDG training for over 33 years. Since then we've grown our offerings and made new…

April 5, 2019

Safety in the Wilderness is for Everyone

Written by Lindsay Cheyne I’ve lived in Alberta my whole life and did a lot of camping with my family and friends as a kid. When it came time…

March 27, 2019

Tick Safety for this Hiking Season

Written by Martin Lesperance We had a heck of a winter in North America and it’s not quite over yet! But the days are getting longer and warmer. Which means wood…