What's Current

Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)

• The CEWS program will subsidize 75% of salaries (up to 3 months) for qualifying businesses, retroactive to March 15, 2020. Max $84 per week, per employee.

Business Credit Availability Program (BCAP)

• The BCAP will support access to financing for Canadian businesses in all sectors and regions including legal cannabis businesses. Export Development Canada (EDC) and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) will provide $65 billion in direct lending and other types of financial support. 

Work Share Program

•  The Canadian Government is extending the maximum duration of the Work-Sharing Program from 38 weeks to 76 weeks for employers affected by COVID-19.

The Bank of Canada

• The Bank has responded by lowering interest rates, intervening to support key financial markets and providing liquidity support for financial institutions. Visit The Bank of Canada for more details.

 Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) 

• The CERB program offers a payment of $2,000 for a 4-week period (the same as $500 a week) for up to 16 weeks to employed and self-employed Canadians

Tribus Services’ technicians have been trained in COVID-19 prevention safety protocols, including:

• ensuring technicians wipe all surfaces before and after their work with a disinfectant
• physical distancing strategies — maintaining a distance of two metres apart (and keeping any interaction with customers as brief as possible)
• cough/sneezing etiquette, hand washing hygiene and safely using PPE
• all contractors must complete a form that assesses health status/COVID symptoms and records any out of province travel

In addition to their usual PPE, technicians will wear cloth masks, gloves and safety glasses.

We will inform customers in advance of their meter upgrade and will explain the safety protocols we are using. On the day of a customer’s smart meter upgrade, we will knock on the customer’s door, and while standing two meters away, will explain the work we’re doing and how customers can help by maintaining a safe distance.

Electric forklifts are used indoors and outdoors in both large round-the-clock operations and small businesses, including the following sectors:

• Warehousing and storage
• Agriculture
• Manufacturing
• Commercial manufacturing, preparation, and storage of food
• Large retail
• Mining
• Goods movement, shipping, and storage
• Health, technology, and research operations
• Construction
• Waste management

1. Despite their higher upfront capital costs, when compared to IC units, electric forklifts are easier and less costly to maintain because they have fewer moving parts. Additionally, the payback period is usually less than two years, depending on local energy prices and equipment usage. As a rule of thumb, an electric unit will be the more economic option when usage is greater than 1,000 hours a year.

    

2. New 80VAC technology optimizes energy efficiency and performance, doubling the runtime between battery charges. New high-frequency chargers are roughly 90% efficient.

    

3. Today’s charger technologies can charge multiple batteries at once. With opportunity charging and fast charging— newer regimes often chosen by multi-shift operations—users plug-in during breaks throughout the day. Opportunity charging requires lower electrical current than fast charging and generates less internal heat.

    

4. Electric forklifts with their zero local emissions ensure cleaner, more healthful air, indoors and out. Operations may not need to ventilate a facility as much when using electric forklifts, reducing ventilation costs.

    

5. Electric forklifts are quiet; they do not contribute to workplace noise, and drivers and other workers around them do not have to shout to be heard.



6. Because of their zero emissions and quieter operation, electric forklifts contribute to a cleaner, safer, and more comfortable workplace.Safer, more comfortable workplace.