On Friday, November 20, the Government of Ontario published the Tony Dean report on the Ontario College of Trades...

On November 13, Toronto City Council authorized the development of a new dedicated cost-recovery funding model to pay...

On November 3rd, the new Environmental Commissioner (EC) of Ontario Ellen Schwartzel published her first Annual Report,...

On November 3, the Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca announced that the construction and maintenance contract...

The Ontario College of Trades has begun issuing notices to local construction associations informing them that...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) recently updated stakeholder Association's on the progress...

Attached you will find the OSWCA's submission to the WSIB Rate Framework Reform Consultation. Our submission was made...

The Ministry of Labour (MOL) will be conducting a health and safety blitz on heavy equipment operations across the...

Attached below is the OSWCA's submission to the Ministry of Labour's Changing Workplaces Review. Our submission...

Since an announcement was first made in the 2014 Ontario Budget, the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has been...

On August 27, the WSIB announced that premium rates for the construction industry in 2016 will not change; however the...

In August, both the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced that...

On August 11, Premier Kathleen Wynne laid out the initial details and implementation plan for the upcoming Ontario...

Heat Stress on the job can affect any worker, regardless of occupation/sector, location or experience, and can also...

The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) is undergoing a transition to adopt new international...

Phase 2 of the provincial review of the Construction Lien Act (CLA) has now been launched. The objective of this...

The WSIB has been undertaking a broad consultation process on its new Rate Framework Modernization project. As a...

The WSIB is continuing to work through it Rate Framework Reform (RFR) exercise, with the intention of overhauling how...

On May 28th, the government tabled Bill 109, the Employment and Labour Statute Law Amendment Act, which proposes to...

On June 17, the City of Toronto (CoT) Public Works Committee approved recommendations made by City Staff to pilot new...

The Greater Toronto Sewer and Watermain Contractors’ Association (GTSWCA) is launching a new...

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) recently issued a decision dealing with the WSIB fatal...

In February 2015, the Government of Ontario launched a review of the Construction Lien Act. Bruce Reynolds, a...

In follow-up to a Member Bulletin sent last week detailing new employer requirements under the Employment Standards...

On May 21, the Government of Ontario announced the creation of a new Construction Health and Safety Advisory Group to...

The Government of Ontario is launching consultations to inform the design of new infrastructure programs and a...

New changes to Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000 came into effect on May 20th that aim to assist workers in...

On May 25, the OSWCA made an oral and written submission to the government Standing Committee on General Government as...

The City of Toronto has issued a Request for Information (document no. 5003-15-5042) to all Sewer and Watermain...

Recently, the RCCAO released a study entitled Improving Ontario's One Call System: How to achieve more timely utility...

On May 12, Mike Sherrard (Sherrard Kuzz LLP) presented a broad overview of the evolution of the Ontario College of...

Since 1988, the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) has been Canada’s national...

Improper use of ladders on construction projects can pose a hazard and continues to be a major cause of workplace...

In the past three weeks, the number of falls from heights in this province has been absolutely unacceptable. We have...

What is the gist of it? The WSIB has developed a proposal to overhaul how it assess and charges employer...

On April 23, the Ontario Liberal Party introduced its provincial Budget for 2015. The budget was interesting in that...

Beginning on May 1st and running through the end of June, the Ministry of Labour (MOL) will be performing its annual...

The IHSA has updated its Handbook for Traffic Control Persons (TCP). It is important to remember that all TCPs must be...

On April 13, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a new cap and trade system in Ontario to limit greenhouse gas (GHG)...

As the Spring season has already begun, the ensuing warmer temperatures and subsequent thawing of snow and ice will...

Please note that on April 13th, 2015 ON1Call will be making a feature change to its system regarding ticket generation...

Construction Site Emergency Preparation Every construction project must have emergency response procedures in...

As of April 1, 2015, Infrastructure Ontario (IO) implemented a new requirement for companies to be COR certified when...

As you are aware, sewer and watermain contractors are continuing to deal with significant delays in receiving timely...

A new report written by Dawson Strategic for a number of prominent Ontario Construction Associations highlights the...

A new report from RCCAO reviewed the provincial One Call system and found that excessively late responses to locate...

Falls due to unsafe work practices are the number-one cause of critical worker injuries and fatalities on Ontario...

As part of the OSWCA advocacy efforts (alongside ORBA and the Ontario Waste Management Association) to adjust some of...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) has published a Technical Discussion Paper on Proposed...

he Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA) has now been approved by the Chief Prevention Office as a...

On March 10th and 11th the MTO hosted public consultations in Toronto and North Bay on its proposal to revise the...

On Thursday, March 5th, 2015, the GTSWCA will be hosting a breakfast seminar with Ontario One Call at the Bellvue...

As of April 1, 2015, amendments to O. Reg. 297/13 Occupational Health and Safety Awareness and Training under the...

GTSWCA will continue to cover the cost of your 1st employee and every other employee thereafter (i.e. 1st, 3rd, 5th,...

Background After an extensive opposition campaign around the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT) in the lead-up to...

On November 20, 2014, Bill 18 – Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act, 2014 received royal...

The OSWCA has been diligently trying to rectify the current locate situation our sector is facing through a variety of...