To: CFBA Members,
Please see the following information from the Council of Ontario Construction Associations (COCA). Please note that The Canadian Farm Builders Association is a member of COCA and supports their work on behalf of construction businesses and employees.
From: COCA - Sue Ramsay [mailto:sramsay@coca.on.ca]
Sent: October 23, 2014 5:14 PM
To: Undisclosed Recipient
Subject: OCoT Review - MTCU Announces Tony Dean to lead review
Importance: High
Dear COCA Members,
The Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities today announced the appointment of Tony Dean to lead a review of key areas of the province's skilled trades system that fall within the mandate of the Ontario College of Trades.
Dean is a former Secretary of Cabinet and Head of the Ontario Public Service and a former Deputy Minister of Labour. He is well remembered and widely respected for the review of Ontario's occupational health and safety system which he leads. In that review Dean was supported by an Expert panel and it concluded with the Tony Dean Expert Panel Report. Among its 40+ recommendations were the establishment of the role of Chief Prevention Officer to head up a new Prevention Office in the Ministry of Labour and the transfer of responsibility for prevention services and programs from the WSIB to the new Prevention Office within the Ministry of Labour headed up by a Chief Prevention Officer. He was able to achieve the support of most stakeholder in the process.
The mandate of the review announced today will include:
Dean will function independently, without the benefit of an expert panel or advisors in this review which will start in October 2014 and conclude in 12 months.
COCA's experience with Dean has been extremely positive. During the health and safety system review he focused on practical solutions that we implementable with little difficulty. He consulted openly and widely with stakeholders. We have no reason to think he will follow a different process this time.
COCA looks forward to meeting with Dean to share our views.
Ian Cunningham, President, Council of Ontario Construction Associations
180 Dundas Street West, Suite 2001
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8
Telephone: (416) 968-7200 ext 224 Mobile: (416) 476-4774
Email: icunningham@coca.on.ca
To: All CFBA Members,
We received the following summary from a CFBA board member regarding the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) initiative, related to the implementation of the Gaseous Fuels Code Adoption Document (CAD) for unvented heaters in Livestock and Poultry barns by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority. The details are contained in a Fuel Safety Program Advisory (please see the link following: FS-214-14).
BACKGROUND:
Barns containing certain animals (day old chicks, turkey poults, weaner pigs, veal calves, etc.) require the addition of supplemental heat . The majority of barns requiring heat in Ontario use natural gas or propane fired equipment for this purpose (e.g. hot water boilers, radiant tube heaters, box heaters, brooder stoves, etc.)
The National Gas and Propane Installation Code (Code) CSA B149.1 allows for the use of unvented appliances inside a ventilated building provided a number of conditions are met. These include having a minimum amount of air exchange(s) in the room based on size of heater(s), interlocking controls between heater and ventilation fans to ensure fans operating before heater starts, etc. to avoid issues with carbon monoxide.
Many of these appliances found in livestock and poultry barns in Ontario would be of the unvented type. The interlocking control system between heating appliance and ventilation equipment does not exist for many of these barns so they do not meet these requirements.
In Ontario enforcement of the Code is the responsibility of Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA).
ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION:
The Code Adoption Document was issued on August 1, 2014 and it will come into effect 60 days later on October 1, 2014.
New installations using unvented heaters will be required to meet CAD immediately after October 1, 2014 while any existing barns with unvented equipment will have until January 1, 2016 to become compliant.
Advisory FS -214-14 was issued on August 25, 2014 and provides specific details regarding the type of information that needs to verified and the minimum information that must be posted in the barn.
Technical Standard and Safety Authority (TSSA) has specified that the Ventilation Calculation form required to satisfy the CAD must be signed by a Professional Engineer, licensed in Ontario.
Some CFBA members might be interested in providing ventilation design & evaluation services for livestock and poultry barns in Ontario - cost to provide this service is unknown.
Please review the FS – 214-14 document. Click to follow the link:
