I .U.E.C.  ELEVATOR  SCHOOL

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  Provincial Government Elevator School

For persons wanting to work in the elevator trade, government trade school is mandatory in Quebec.  English and French classes will be available.  You must register as soon as possible (NOW) due to a very limited enrolment.  At 

L'École des Métier du Sud-Ouest de Montréal

717 Rue St.Ferdinand,

Montréal, Québec,  H4C 3L7

Telephone (514) 596-5960

Please Note!

Prendre note! 

Regulations Pour Harness / C.S.S.T. Regulations Harnesses 
Posted 12 May 2012

© Éditeur officiel du Québec

 À jour au 1er avril 2012

Ce document a valeur officielle.

S-2.1,r.4    Code de sécurité pour les travaux de construction

c. S-2.1, r. 4

Code de sécurité pour les travaux de construction

Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail

 (L.R.Q., c. S-2.1, a. 223

3.24.4.  Sauvetage à la suite d'une chute: Dans les 12 mois qui suivent le 5 mai 2011, l'employeur doit avant le début des travaux:

  1°    élaborer et éprouver une procédure de sauvetage qui vise le dégagement, dans un délai de 15 minutes, de tout travailleur qui, à la suite d'une chute, se trouve suspendu dans un harnais de sécurité;

  2°    fournir les équipements nécessaires à la mise en application de la procédure de sauvetage;

  3°    s'assurer que si le sauvetage est effectué en appui sur corde les équipements utilisés remplissent les conditions suivantes:

  a)      sont conformes à l'une des normes suivantes:

  i.    Standard on Fire Service Life Safety Rope and System Components, NFPA 1983, applicable au moment de leur fabrication

  ii.    Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Subsystems and Components, ANSI/ASSE Z359.4, applicable au moment de leur fabrication;

  iii.    les normes qui s'appliquent au harnais de sécurité prévues à l'article 2.10.12;

  b)      servent exclusivement à cette fin, à l'exception du harnais de sécurité;

  4°    assurer la présence en tout temps sur les lieux de travail d'un sauveteur qui a suivi une formation le rendant apte à dégager un travailleur suspendu dans un harnais de sécurité et dont la nature du travail ne compromet en rien son intervention rapide et efficace. Un sauveteur peut également agir à titre de secouriste si la procédure de sauvetage le prévoit.

De plus, un exercice de sauvetage d'un travailleur suspendu dans un harnais de sécurité à la suite d'une chute doit être exécuté à tous les 6 mois.

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© Éditeur officiel du Québec

 Updated to 1 April 2012

This document has official status. 

c. S-2.1, r. 4

Safety Code for the construction industry

An Act respecting occupational health and safety

 (R.S.Q., c. S-2.1, s. 223)

3.24.4.  Rescue following a fall: Within 12 months after 5 May 2011, the employer must, before the beginning of the work,

  (1)    develop and test a rescue procedure that allows the rescue, within 15 minutes, of a worker who, following a fall, is suspended in a safety harness;

  (2)    provide the equipment necessary for the implementation of the rescue procedure;

  (3)    ensure that, if rescue is effected on ropes, the equipment used

  (a)      complies with one of the following standards:

  (i)    Standard on Fire Service Life Safety Rope and System Components, NFPA 1983, as it applies when the ropes are manufactured;

  (ii)    Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Subsystems and Components, ANSI/ASSE Z359.4, as it applies when the ropes are manufactured; or

  (iii)    the standards in section 2.10.12; and

  (b)      is used exclusively for that purpose, except the safety harness; and

  (4)    ensure that a rescuer, who was trained to rescue a worker suspended in a safety harness, is present at all times on the work premises. The nature of the rescuer's work must not compromise a quick and efficient intervention. A rescuer may also act as first-aider if so provided in the rescue procedure.

In addition, a rescue drill for a worker suspended in a safety harness after a fall must be carried out every 6 months

Federal Bill C 377

 We are Canada’s Building and Construction Trades, a skilled workforce of 500,000 men and women from

coast to coast.

 We work all over the country, in all Provinces and Territories, rural and urban areas, and in remote areas

like the far North, and in newly developing but critical projects like the oil sands.

 Our members come from all sectors in the construction trades: high‐skilled, high‐paying careers like

pipefitters, operating engineers, carpenters, welders, plasterers, cement workers, boilermakers, and

metal workers. We build Canada, and we maintain its industrial plants and stocks of building. Without

us, nothing works!

 Canada’s Building and Construction Trades are providing solutions to meet the challenge of a changing,

energy‐conscious world. With pride, performance, and professionalism, our highly skilled work force

delivers unmatched value for contractors and companies. We’re not the Post Office, we work with our

employer partners in building a world class workforce, safety and innovations system that no one else

really knows about!

 We provide life‐long career and advancement opportunities for those with the discipline and

determination to have a direct impact on the future of our world. Building Trades Unions invest$250

million annually in training our own members to meet the needs of our industry and contractor partners

and we support an infrastructure of $650 million worth of training capacity. We (and our employer

partners) are the largest private trainers in Canada.

 We support the Government of Canada and the Prime Minister’s efforts to push for such projects as the

Northern Gateway and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – these large construction projects are

opportunities not only for our current workers to contribute to Canada’s energy future, but also for

young people to take interest and become part of the skilled trades. Simply put, we need these

opportunities to train the next generation of builders and maintainers who will make the country

prosperous and safe.

 We support the Government’s reforms of the regulatory approval process for large projects like the

Northern Gateway. The current process is broken, and undermines valuable economic opportunities

that create well‐paying Canadian jobs. A vigourous and expeditious regulatory approvals process is the

right decision for Canada and our economy.

 The jobs being created from these projects are not just the jobs on immediate construction; they are the

permanent operations and maintenance jobs that last the lifetime of the project. These are jobs for 50

years.

 Canada’s Building Trades support the development of these projects – whether these projects are union

built or not. These projects are necessary for Canada’s economy to grow and we are happy to freely

compete against non‐union contractors to win these contracts.

 We are concerned with a private member’s bill that has come before the House of Commons, C‐377,

which endangers our ability to build projects across the country and create jobs.

 C‐377 is intended to fix a problem that does not exist. Instead, it actually duplicates processes that are

already in place to provide accountability and transparency for our workers and would create an

expanded, expensive and redundant bureaucracy. Our costs of compliance will be extraordinary and

beyond that required of any other tax entity.

 We are accountable, transparent and democratic. Workers elect their leadership and pay their salaries

through their dues – the leadership works for them and report our expenditures to them monthly. If

they are dissatisfied with the leadership (and its accountability) they can and do elect new leadership

who will provide them with desired service. There are also procedures in the Union’s Constitution and in

the Laws of the Provinces to compel the disclosure of information.

 Workers have the opportunity to see the financial books and accounts and hold the leadership

accountable at regular meetings throughout the year at the local level. Pension & Welfare Trusts are

obliged to share this information by Provincial law.

 The salaries of our executives are already disclosed to our members (and those workers are the ones

with the right to know), and workers have the opportunity to hold us to account for how we spend their

money throughout the year.

 We are private sector unions. Unlike charities and political parties, we receive NO public subsidies or

public monies.

 Our workers and their families enjoy tax deductibility on the dues they pay to the Union. We are not

publicly subsidized; we are funded entirely through dues from workers. We are just like the Law Society,

the Engineer’s Association or the Medial Association in how we are funded and governed.

 Canada’s Building Trades Unions contribute 250 million dollars per year to the training of our members,

so that they are a work‐ready labour force to efficiently meet the needs of our industry and contractor

partners. With our employer partners we maintain a training infrastructure of over $650 million and are

the largest private trainers in Canada by a very long margin.

 We invite Members of Parliament of all parties to attend our local meetings in their ridings to meet us

and see the value that we provide to our workers, as well as see the transparent and accountable

relationship between our members and our leadership.

 C‐377 imposes more government bureaucracy and red tape on us that would prevent us from doing

what we want to be doing – creating jobs. Our costs of compliance will be huge and to what end??

 The increased accounting costs of C‐377 will take money that should go to improve benefits packages,

wages and new business opportunities and instead diverts it to accountants and lawyers. The individual

members we represent will be forced to pay more in union dues simply to pay for accounting services to

feed a government bureaucratic policy that has no basis in logic, law or public service. In short,

pensioners will get a little less in the pension, the working family will get less in dental and drug benefits,

not as many apprentices will get started and Union dues will increase substantially (and so will the cost

of the money allowed for deduction from income – if the experts are correct that the cost of compliance

is 20% more to the Union that means that the deductions will cost the GOC another $100 million).

 C‐377 will force us to take time and resources away from our key goal: creating jobs. We also have to

curtail our other important goals; building the workforce force of tomorrow, delivering quality benefits

and servicing our members at work. Instead, we will be forced to spend that time and those resources

dealing with bureaucrats, accountants and lawyers. This is time and money which should be spent

partnering with government and industry to create jobs for working Canadians.

 We hope to find ways to work together to address your concerns with us, and continue to be partners in

creating jobs and prosperity for all Canadians.

Did you know about Bill C377??

There is a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Commons to amend the Income Tax Act of Canada titled Bill C377.  Why the Income Tax Act?  This is quite a clever ploy really – Unions are constitutionally regulated by the various Provinces – not the Federal Government. BUT - Deductibility of union dues is permitted under the federal Income Tax Act.

The Member of Parliament who introduced this Bill into the House of Commons (who seems to be supported in all things by the MERIT Contractors) would like to regulate unions under the guise of “transparency and openness“ because union members pay union dues.  Interestingly, this is the exact situation that applies to professional associations like the doctors, lawyers and accountants who pay ‘union dues’. (They are usually called professional fees because professional fees sound much more appropriate in polite conversation than union dues)  All of these other professional fees are also one hundred percent tax deductible, and in fact are regulated by the same section of the Income Tax Act but they aren’t caught by Bill C377.  So there is the intent – punish blue collar workers but leave ‘white collar professionals alone.’

No one has asked for this legislation (except The MERIT Shop).  It always worrisome when the anti-union employer shows up to defend the interests of the support the working union member!

What is the actual problem with Bill C377??  Well, the problem is that the material that is required by the Bill to be filed with the Ministry of Finance will then be made public on a searchable and cross referenced website.  So that means disclosing everything there is to know about your local union, the pension plan, the health and welfare plan and all the other plans that your local union maintains – not just to the Government – but to the Government so that it may then publish it for the world to see. It will also disclose your private information if you are receiving a commuted value pension, if there is some sort of matrimonial split in your pension, if your kids are getting drugs under the plan of the value of more than $5000 a month, it will report the salary of any person who works for your local union and a host of other things.

Why is this being done? The Anti-union clearly wants to see everything we file and the Bill really requires us to file on everything! It will let them know everything about us and give an enormous intelligence advantage in dealing with local unions across the country.  The upshot of this is interesting the current Government got rid of the gun registry because it was an example in red tape that didn’t do anything for anyone.  This Bill will, in effect, register unions and that will cost your pension plan and health plan money in the final analysis, it will either cut your benefits or increase in what you are going to pay in union dues.  It is also going to create a lot of red tape and require civil servants to be hired to manage the process. To what gain?

By the way, don’t be fooled about all this propaganda all about “openness and transparency.”  It isn’t intended to make things more open to transparency.  Even the Fraser Institute, hardly a union friendly organization, has stated when dealing with similar legislation that exists in the United States.

“… the US legislation does disclose a great deal, it does not do so in a way that facilitates analysis and comprehension by average, interested citizens.”

This information is clearly intended to give the non-union and the anti-union a leg up in their dealings with us.  It is intended for the Merit Contractors and other anti-union employers to stay that way. It is to make us spend our time and money on record keeping and not doing what we are supposed to do for you, the union member!

This Bill has been misrepresented to the Government as a needed action to ‘ensure transparency”.  As you all know – this ‘transparency’ already exists under our bylaws and constitutions.  But your MP does not know this.  Let your MP know that Bill 377 is bad for workers and bad for the economy!

Please spend a few minutes to help us help you in respect your future under Bill C377.

Visit:

www.workersbuildcanada.ca

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