Aplomb Safety Consultants

05/21/2023

Do I have any friends in and round Brooks Alberta? Where I could store the trailer for a couple of weeks

04/01/2020

Some good reading on unfortunate trends

With more companies and organizations implementing drug testing, the market for synthetic urine is undergoing a rapid growth. Synthetic urine can be created in a laboratory using a mixture of urea, water, creatinine and/or uric acid. Urinalysis testing employs two methods called chromatography and m...

03/10/2020

A nice bunch of extinguishers ready to go!

05/30/2019

Are you sure of the drugs you are doing?

Earlier in April, two dangerous and potentially-deadly drugs were found in Canada. In the first instance, carfentanil, a synthetic opioid approximately 100 times stronger than fentanyl, and 10000 times stronger than morphine, was discovered in Ottawa. In the second instance, a synthetic cannabinoid....

03/19/2019

Overall drug-impaired driving on the rise

According to a recent report from the Edmonton Police Commission, Edmonton police recorded less than 100 instances of cannabis-impaired driving in 2018. Shortly after cannabis legalization, the Edmonton Police Service marked the police reports in which police officers indicated they believed that th...

03/05/2019

This is just the beginning folks. All oil and gas workers need to read this.

Starting in the first quarter of 2019, workers and contractors of Suncor Energy will be subject to random alcohol and drug tests. Suncor Energy, a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta, specializes in the production of oil and natural gas in Western Canada, and operates multip...

02/26/2019

Very interesting read

The use of prescription opioids has skyrocketed in Canada over the last 20 years. High doses of commonly prescribed are associated with risks including fatal overdoses, motor vehicle accidents, and falls and fractures in the elderly population. Among concerns of overprescription, the Ontario Public....

02/21/2019

Take a look at the review and see where we are headed.

Statistics Canada has released the results of the National Cannabis Survey (NCS) from the fourth quarter of 2018. According to the Statistics Canada website, the main goal of the survey is “to better understand the frequency of cannabis usage in Canada and to monitor changes in behaviour as a resu...

02/15/2019

I wonder how long it will take to have this here in Canada?

The world’s first portable fingerprint-based drug screening system has been launched by UK-based company Intelligent Fingerprinting and is now available in Spain. The new testing system is hygienic and easy-to-use, and collects fingerprint samples in just five seconds. It works by analyzing sweat ...

01/24/2019

Sounds like there goin to be tightening up "w**d" use in Canada. More regulations and laws will be sure to follow.

On December 21, 2018, the Canadian federal government opened a 60-day consultation period respecting the strict regulation of additional cannabis products (which include edibles, extracts and topical products). According to the background information provided by Health Canada, the draft regulations....

12/27/2018

Now to me this does not make sense. What is your opinion?

Under the current Health Canada regulations for medical cannabis, the only method of legal distribution of cannabis is by mail order from licensed producers directly to patients. Health Canada has updated its list of authorized cannabis sellers and producers, according to which, the pharmacy can sel...

12/13/2018

Now we are talking!

Canadian factory workers at risk for termination or employment refusal for recreational ma*****na use The recreational use of cannabis became legal on October 17, 2018, under the federal Cannabis Act. As such, Canadians aged 18 years or older can legally possess up to 30 grams of legal cannabis in i...