Industries

The same system, in the places where the work happens.

Eight Ontario workplaces and what Maturvia does in each. The tools change with the trade. The idea does not: know where you stand, fix what is missing, let your records prove it.

Scenes are illustrations, not customer sites.

Welder in a lowered helmet welding behind an amber screen under a fume extraction arm, with a press brake operator in safety glasses, hi-vis and ear muffs behind a light curtain — A fabrication bay: extraction at the arc, a screen between stations, a light-curtain guard on the brake and lockout on the disconnect.

Metal fabrication

The controls hold every day. Now the paperwork does too.

A fab shop runs on a few things that must never slip: extraction at the arc, guards on the brakes and saws, lockout before anyone reaches in. The proof usually lives in a binder nobody opens until a customer or an inspector asks.

Where it hurts: Arc flash and fume, crush points, noise, hands, and machines worked on without being isolated.
What Maturvia does here: Every control gets an owner and a review date. Daily pre-use checks run on a phone. Lockout procedures are signed off, and the sign-off counts as training. Welder tickets and forklift cards expire where you can see them coming.

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Construction worker on a guardrailed scaffold wearing a hard hat, hi-vis vest, glasses, gloves and a harness clipped to an overhead anchor, with a second worker fencing an excavation and a supervisor with a clipboard — A commercial site: tied-off work on a guardrailed scaffold, a fenced excavation with its ladder, and a crane load kept clear of people.

Commercial construction

Judged on today's site and tomorrow's prequalification form.

A contractor's safety programme has to stand up on the site it is on now and on the questionnaire for the next one. Both need the same thing: proof that the checks happened, that the people on the tools were trained, and that the right people were told in time when something went wrong.

Where it hurts: Falls, excavations, struck-by, subcontractors arriving without paperwork, and the clock that starts the moment someone is seriously hurt.
What Maturvia does here: Contractors are checked before work starts. Scaffold, ladder and excavation inspections live on a phone. A serious injury starts the notification clocks on the record itself and keeps who told whom. Certificates sit where expiry dates are visible.

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Forklift operator with seat belt fastened driving with forks low beside a barrier-protected pedestrian walkway where a worker in hi-vis waits at a crossing under a convex mirror, with guarded racking and a chocked trailer at the dock — A distribution warehouse: belted operator, forks low, pedestrians behind a barrier at a mirrored crossing, guarded racking and a chocked trailer.

Warehousing and logistics

Forklifts and people in the same building, kept apart by design and by record.

The serious injuries happen where forklifts meet people, at the racking, and at the dock. The controls are physical. Whether they are kept up shows only in records: inspections done, cards current, near misses reported before one becomes an injury.

Where it hurts: Forklift strikes at corners and docks, damaged racking, trailers that creep, and lifting at the pick face.
What Maturvia does here: Pre-use, racking and dock checks on a phone. Forklift cards and real competence, side by side. Near misses reported in seconds, anonymously if people prefer, and grouped so a pattern shows. Hours recorded so the injury rates on the dashboard mean something.

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Food processing

Food safety has its paperwork. Worker safety deserves the same.

Food plants already live by procedures and audits. Worker safety usually runs on a thinner set of records: the sanitation lockout everyone knows but nobody signed, the slicer guard check that lives in a supervisor's memory.

Where it hurts: Slicers, conveyors and mixers, knives, wet floors, noise, cleaning chemicals, and machines that still have energy in them during cleaning.
What Maturvia does here: Sanitation and lockout procedures are numbered, dated and signed. Pre-operational checks are tracked to closure. Knife and machine tasks carry a competence level per person. Chemical and equipment inspections sit on one calendar.

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Landscaper cutting a log with a chainsaw in a forestry helmet with the mesh visor down, ear muffs, chaps and gloves, while a crew member in a hard hat and hi-vis feeds a wood chipper from the side, with traffic cones and a work-zone sign on the road — A grounds crew: visor and ear protection at the saw, chaps and gloves, the chipper fed from the side with a push tool, cones and a sign on the road.

Landscaping and grounds

Small crews, sharp tools, public roads.

Grounds crews work in twos and threes, far from the office, next to traffic, with the most unforgiving tools in any small business. The safety programme has to fit in a truck cab.

Where it hurts: Saws and chippers, traffic beside the work, heat, noise, driving between jobs, and crews out of sight of help.
What Maturvia does here: Tailgate talks and pre-use checks on a phone, per crew. Who is cleared to run the saw, and until when. Incidents reported from the truck, by voice if hands are busy. Saws, chippers and PPE with their inspection records.

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Fleet garage technician in safety glasses, ear muffs, nitrile gloves and coveralls working at a two-post lift with a van raised and locked, a pickup on jack stands with wheel chocks, an exhaust extraction hose, a spill kit, extinguisher and eyewash station — A fleet bay: lockout on the lift control, a pickup on stands with chocks, exhaust extraction connected, a spill kit at the drain.

Fleet and automotive service

Vehicles in the air and people underneath.

A fleet garage is a calendar with wheels: lift inspections, extinguisher checks, hoist certificates, chemical lists, driver records. Miss one and the consequence is not a fine first.

Where it hurts: Lifts and jacks, exhaust in the bay, fuel and solvents, chemicals, noise, tires and batteries.
What Maturvia does here: Lifts, hoists and extinguishers with their inspection dates on one calendar. Bay walks and lift checks on a phone. Lift lockout and hot-work procedures signed off. Chemical safety training and lift competence per technician.

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Two care workers in scrubs, masks and nitrile gloves transferring a resident with a ceiling-track lift and sling, sharps container and hand sanitiser on the wall, fall mat beside the bed — A care home: a ceiling-track lift and sling for the transfer, masks and gloves, a clear floor and a fall mat beside the bed.

Long-term care and community health

Safe handling, infection control and the load care teams carry.

Injuries in care homes are far more often to backs and to minds than from accidents. The controls are lifts and slings, trained hands, staffing, and a culture where people report aggression and near misses without fear.

Where it hurts: Transfers and repositioning, wet floors, infection and sharps, aggression from residents in distress, and the strain of short-staffed shifts.
What Maturvia does here: Safe-handling competence per worker, with expiry. Lift and sling checks. Each resident's handling plan recorded as a control. Aggression reported anonymously and investigated like any other incident. A wellbeing survey with an independent reviewer and a published response.

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Farm worker in ear muffs, safety glasses, gloves and boots beside a tractor with a roll bar and a shielded PTO driveline to a baler, a second worker in a half-face respirator handling dusty feed, and a grain bin with a confined-space sign and a retrieval tripod — A dairy yard: roll bar and seat belt on the tractor, a shielded driveline to the baler, a respirator for dusty feed, confined-space kit staged at the bin.

Agriculture and dairy

A family business with industrial hazards.

A farm has the hazard profile of a factory, a trucking company and a chemical store, run by a family and a few seasonal hands. The programme that works is the one that fits the season.

Where it hurts: Rollovers, PTO shafts, grain bins and manure gas, dust, livestock, lone work, and young people around equipment.
What Maturvia does here: Every tractor and implement on the register with its guards and roll bar as controls. Pre-season checks on a phone. Bin entry run as the permit job it is. Respirator fit and confined-space training with expiry. Extinguishers and first-aid kits on the calendar.

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Your industry

Start with where you stand today.

Fifteen minutes gives you a level, five area scores and your three biggest gaps. The 90-day plan takes it from there, whatever the trade.

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