The Canadian Occupational Health & Safety codes outline key height safety standards and regulations that help create a safer work environment. Today’s ICI (Institutional, Commercial, and Industrial) rooftops are crowded with obstructions, from HVAC units to ducts to solar panels. We often find that critical rooftop units support critical building operations. As a result, when maintenance is required, proactively ensuring a safe working environment on your rooftop will allow for quick and easy maintenance of your rooftop units as needed.

The Canadian Occupational Health & Safety codes outline key height safety standards and regulations that help create a safer work environment. Today’s ICI (Institutional, Commercial, and Industrial) rooftops are crowded with obstructions, from HVAC units to ducts to solar panels. We often find that critical rooftop units support critical building operations. As a result, when maintenance is required, proactively ensuring a safe working environment on your rooftop will allow for quick and easy maintenance of your rooftop units as needed.

As a property manager, facility manager, specifier, or contractor in Canada, you operate within a strict regulatory framework to protect all workers needing access to your rooftop. The Canadian and provincial Occupational Health & Safety regulations outline just some of the standards you are legally obliged to meet while working at heights. If you are thinking that as long as I am compliant, I am safe, that unfortunately couldn’t be any further from the truth. Compliance is not the endpoint — it is only the beginning of your organization’s safety journey. Time and time again, we see organizations ensuring they are compliant, with tragic accidents still occurring. While unfortunately also being legally at fault.

Let’s not discover safety by accident this year and look for opportunities to mitigate, if not eliminate, near misses. The roof safety specialists at Skyline Group created a whitepaper that helps outline the hazards of concern for those looking to climb to the rooftop of an ICI building. The whitepaper will briefly touch on the following:

• Understanding your obligations
• The hierarchy of control
• Assessing the risk
• Addressing the hazards
• How we can help

Click to download the whitepaper “Guide to Rooftop Safety” written by the roof safety specialists at Skyline Group.

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