RCI Ontario Chapter Seminar Inside OIRCA Care and Control: Who is Liable for Fire Safety? Page 8 Asphalt “Not Harmful,” Canadian Study Proclaims Page 14 An Urgent Appeal to Adopt Risk Management in the Canadian ICI Roofing Industry Page 16 Insurance Notes Assessing Cover Boards: A New Evaluation Technique is Needed to Determine Cover Boards’ Protective Function The North American roofing community has long recognized the benefits of including a cover board to increase a roof assembly’s durability. …Page 10 Cover Story Cover Boards in Commercial Roofing OIRCA Rescues Another Roof – This Time in Toronto! From left to right: Don Marks, Executive Director, OIRCA Rooftop Rescue Foundation; Steve Murray, Senior VP, Atlas-Apex Roofing; Alex Milic, Business Development Manager, Nusens Niche Contracting; Robert Yule, Regional Manager, Beacon Roofing Supply; Alberto Ferreira, Nusens Niche Contracting; Louis Zammit, President, Beacon Roofing Supply; and Bruce Rivers, Executive Director, Covenant House Toronto. Not pictured: Doug Thomas, Northstar Scaffolding. I n 2017 the OIRCA launched the OIRCA Rooftop Rescue Founda- tion (RR). The foundation’s mission is to provide roofing services to individuals and organizations that are deemed worthy and un- able to fund roofing construction on their own. In the Fall 2017 issue of ORN we reported on the first project com- pleted by Rooftop Rescue for the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre for Hamilton. Their mission was to assist children with learning disabilities. When RR received a submission from Covenant House Toronto, the notion of helping youth again in 2018 was a good fit. As Canada’s largest agency serving at-risk, homeless and trafficked youth, the op- portunity to help with a newly acquired property in Toronto was an easy decision for the RR Foundation Board of Directors. Bruce Rivers, Executive Director of Covenant House Toronto, ex- plained to RR that “sex trafficking, the most common type of human trafficking in Canada, is a growing public issue and is largely (a) domes- tic crime. Toronto has been identified as a trafficking hub in the prov- ince… we have identified a need for more emergency housing separate from our shelter. The opening of a new supportive house program for victims of trafficking would provide a place where girls can seek refuge in an emergency situation.” Covenant House Toronto’s new facility is a residential property with a combination of steep-sloped shingle roofs and low-slope flat roofs. OIRCA Active Member Atlas-Apex Roofing Inc. of Toronto generously volunteered to provide the labour, design services, miscel- laneous roofing materials required and the expertise to tackle a tight downtown residential job site. The complexity relating to the site set- up necessitated a scaffolding solution, which was graciously donated by Northstar Scaffold. Beacon Roofing Supply Canada Company of Concord, an OIRCA Associate Member, stepped forward and sup- plied all roofing materials including shingles, underlayment, insula- tion, low-slope modified bitumen roofing membranes and other roof- ing accessory materials. John Petrachek, Atlas-Apex Roofing’s President, remarked, “When I served as OIRCA President in 2016 I recommended to our Board of Directors that the establishment of a foundation was a priority for me. Seeing that goal reach fruition is very satisfying. Our association is a very mature organization and we were overdue in finding a way to give back to our communities.”