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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Elmira Pet Products Ltd., of Elmira, Ontario was critically injured from a fall, while cleaning a pet food manufacturing plant. Contrary to safety procedures, Elmira Pet Products Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure a worker was protected by means of a guardrail system or protective coverings as outlined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2017) The Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Transportation and Works was fined $90,000 on December 22, 2016 following its conviction for violating five sections of the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act. According to court documents, the conviction stemmed from an incident that had resulted in the death … Continue Reading
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was found fatally injured inside a steel concrete mixing tank. Coreslab Structures (Ont.) Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that where starting a Planetary Concrete Mixer may endanger the safety of a worker, the control switches were locked out, as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 851, and contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Article from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2017)
Nova Scotia has agreed to implement all 12 recommendations on reducing violence in hospital emergency departments following the publication of a report that evaluates safety threats in the province’s healthcare sector.