Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Teranorth Construction & Engineering Limited, a Sudbury constructor, was fined $115,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.
What legal remedies do employees have if they are verbally or non-verbally bullied by their supervisor or co-workers? In the workplace, bullying can include behaviours such as: damaging your reputation; humiliating you in public; accusing you of lack of effort; calling you names; insulting, teasing, or intimidating you; preventing your access to opportunities; isolating you physically or socially; imposing undue pressure to produce work; setting impossible deadlines; making consistent unnecessary disruptions; failing to give you credit; assigning meaningless tasks; setting you up for failure; or removing responsibility (C. Rayner, H. Hoel, C. Cooper, Workplace Bullying: What We Know, Who is to Blame and What We Can Do, London: Taylor and Francis, 2002).
This was another day to take in lectures on various topics, which were,
1) An Engaged Workforce: MSD Injury Prevention and Management,
2) Great Safety Leadership: The Only Way to a Zero Injury Culture, and
3) Get a Grip on Safety – An Approach to a Company-Wide Safety Program.
Hello all,
I have finished the three lectures that were provided today. I have listed them for the reader’s information,
1) Leading the Way: Safety Climate as an Indicator of Organizational Culture and Business Outcomes,
2) Supervisors – Safety Asset or Liability? (Liked this one), and
3) Breakthrough Change in Workplace Health and Safety.