Tools & Equipment
Site Safety
Trades & Apprenticeships
Building & Infrastructure
JJE & Vermeer
100
Big digging machine with a bucket on a long arm
excavator
100
Head protection every worker wears on a construction site
hard hat
100
Tradesperson who installs wiring and keeps a building's power safe
electrician
100
Mix of cement, water, sand and gravel that hardens like stone
concrete
100
Truck JJE sells that brushes and vacuums dirt off city streets
street sweeper
200
Tall crane that stays in one spot for months, lifting steel up a high-rise
tower crane
200
Ontario law that sets the safety rules for every workplace
Occupational Health and Safety Act
200
Fully certified tradesperson who trains apprentices on the job
journeyperson
200
Steel bars placed inside a pour to make it stronger
rebar
200
Digging with water and a vacuum to safely uncover buried pipes and cables
hydro excavation
300
Handheld tool that measures voltage, current and resistance
multimeter
300
Right number 3 of every Ontario worker: what you can do if a job is unsafe
right to refuse unsafe work
300
Ontario program that lets high school students start an apprenticeship
OYAP
300
Temporary wall around a construction site, often covered in art in Toronto
hoarding
300
Brand of sewer cleaning trucks JJE has sold since 1997
Vactor
400
Fluid under pressure that moves a machine's arm and bucket
hydraulics
400
Training Ontario requires for construction workers who use fall protection
Working at Heights
400
Seal on a trade certificate that lets you work anywhere in Canada
Red Seal
400
Approval from the city you need before you start building
building permit
400
Farm machine Gary Vermeer invented in 1971 that rolls hay into big bales
round baler
500
Machine that drills sideways under a road or river to lay pipe without digging a trench
horizontal directional drill
500
System of warning labels and safety data sheets for hazardous products
WHMIS
500
Tradesperson who fixes bulldozers, loaders and other big machines
heavy equipment technician
500
City rules for what can be built where, and how tall
zoning bylaw
500
Company that bought Joe Johnson Equipment in 2016
Federal Signal
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