Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
The Corporation of the City of Orillia was fined $50,000 on September 29, 2009, for a contravention of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was injured.
Blog Post #145 – Liquidation World Fined $18,000 For Health and Safety Violation
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Liquidation World Inc., an Alberta discount retailer, was fined $18,000 today for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
Blog Post #135 – Fall Protection – Section 26.3 of the Construction Regulation 213/91- Seventh in Series
Section 26.3, subsection 8 states,
“The following additional requirements apply to a guardrail system that is made of wire rope:
1) The top rail and intermediate rail shall be made of wire rope that is at least 10 mm in diameter, and the rope shall be kept taut by a turnbuckle or other device.
2) The outward deflection of the top rail and the intermediate rail resulting from the loads specified in subsection (5) shall not exceed beyond the edge of a work surface.
3) The system shall have vertical separators at intervals of not more than 2.4 metres and horizontal supports at intervals or not more than 9 metres.
Blog Post #122 – Fall Protection – Section 26.3 of the Construction Regulation 213/91- Third in Series
Since section 26.3 is very extensive, I will break up the description into two or three separate blogs to cover all the information and for my interpretations of the law.
Section 26.3 (1) states,
“Despite paragraph 1 of section 26, a guardrail system that meets the requirements of this section shall be used if a worker has access to the perimeter or an open side of any of the following work surfaces and is exposed to a fall of 2.4 metres or more: