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Blog Post #1556 – Workplace Fatality Results in $120,000 Fine for Lucan, Ontario-based Company

October 24, 2024 by Dan

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was fatally injured due to carbon monoxide exposure following a fire in an oil‐lubricated air compressor. OJB Industries Inc. of Lucan, Ontario, failed, as an employer, to ensure that measures and procedures prescribed by section 10(5) of Ontario Regulation 833, CONTROL OF EXPOSURE TO BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL AGENTS, were carried out at a workplace contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Blog Post #1555 – Workplace Fatality Results in $110,000 Fine for Kitchener-Area Construction Company

October 21, 2024 by Dan

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Matpol Metal Roof Manufacturing Ltd., carrying out business as Canadian Metal Roof Manufacturing Ltd, of Kitchener, Ontario N2B 3V6, is a construction company that installs metal roof systems.

Blog Post #1554 – Healthcare Violence Comes Under the Spotlight

October 17, 2024 by Dan

Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)

This report is an early report after the Ontario government had enacted violence and harassment legislation in 2010. Industrial and Construction sectors were already involved with V&H compliance but the healthcare sector was slow to get on board.

Blog Post #1553 – Two Oxford County Construction Companies Fined a Total of $400,000 After Workplace Fatalities and Injuries

October 16, 2024 by Dan

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Two workers died and four others were critically injured when a section of a building under construction collapsed. iSpan Systems LP (iSpan) failed to ensure that a building, structure or any part thereof, was capable of supporting any loads that may be applied to it. East Elgin Concrete Forming Ltd. (East Elgin) failed to provide proper information, instruction and supervision, specifically on the use of proper concrete measuring techniques on the project. Both offences are contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.