Sills Home Hardware

If I could leave no stars I would. The reason is this: Sills decked out there store with Christmas decorations using Van Bakel Electrical and Plumbing on December 19th, 2017. They were comfortable opening their facilities after hours to accomplish this. This is why. They proceeded to do the work illegally and risked the life of the worker. Without barricading the sidewalk, and using a forkllift, they lifted the worker in a tote skid. A tote skid is not a personnel lifting device and contains none of the engineered safety required by law. Every worker trained to use a forklift knows this is unsafe, illegal, and deadly. In fact, every fireman should be well aware of this as well. If you think the Sills name represents family and public safety, think again. Their actions as a willing participant of this highly dangerous and illegal activity speaks the truth. They undermine the safety culture of this community, and sustain an environment where the next generation of youth looking to persue a trade are put in a dilemma where they must choose between safety and a job. There are so many rural children who are eager to sign up for an apprenticeship, and few apprenticeships to be had. Many of our local contractors know this and hire labourers to do skilled trade work without signing them up as an apprentice. If the worker speaks up for their safety, carrot on a stick hope for an apprenticeship vanishes. Then the contractor applies for another government grant to subsidize their 'new' job opening for the next eager unemployed worker. The Sills are a family centered around firefighting, and know risks, laws, and I can only imagine how many hours of personal safety training their family members have received. Their decision to hire workers after hours when the ministry of labour wont be about, and to allow them to do dangerous illegal work, speaks volumes. Cutting corners is playing the odds. You cant win every time. For Sills to put this on display on the main street in downtown Seaforth only validates the employers of trade workers to put their workers at risk to pocket more money, when there are methods to eliminate and reduce the potential for injury and death. Those employers may one day hire your family member. Do you want your child to die at work because their employer told them to work dangerously, and your child did not know any better yet? Sills wants this, as can be seen by their actions. Home Hardware, Ministry of Labour, I hope you like the pictures. I hope you have a different position than the Sills family. Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you enjoy some time with your family more than the lights on the front of Sills Home Hardware.

great store, very helpful and friendly people