Blog Post #1551 – RCMP Reaches Settlement

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

Canada’s national police force has reached a settlement in two class-action lawsuits regarding accusations of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination among its members by offering a compensation package totalling a $1oo million for several hundred women who have served with the force over the past 42 years.

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Blog Post #1550 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for London-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 A worker was critically injured while moving a heavy metal beam at the Facility. Misteelco Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure the beam was handled without endangering the safety of a worker as prescribed by section 45(b) of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments and contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1549 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Brantford Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was seriously injured while repairing the brakes on a motor home. Bert’s Truck and Trailer Repair Inc. failed, as an employer, to protect a worker by ensuring the safety measures and procedures required for preventing an elevated vehicle from falling on a worker were carried out, as outlined in section 74 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments.

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