Posts Categorized As: Health and Safety

Blog Post #1710 – Ontario Court Upholds For-Cause Dismissal of Health & Safety Manager for Mishandling of Her Own WSIB Claim

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Report by –  Maria Constantine

 Employment & Labour

In Lagala v. Patene Building Supplies Ltd.,1 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a wrongful termination claim commenced by the former Health, Safety and Training Manager of a building supply company whose employment had been terminated for cause. The employee had been dismissed following her failure to report her own workplace accident and injury to her employer for over six months and her non-adherence to workplace safety policies – the very policies that she was responsible for drafting and enforcing.

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Blog Post #1709 – New Brunswick Supervisor Convicted of Criminal Negligence

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Jason King, a former Springhill Construction Ltd. supervisor in New Brunswick, was sentenced to three years in prison for criminal negligence causing the death of 18-year-old worker Michael Henderson in 2018. King was convicted in June 2023 for reckless disregard of safety protocols, including failing to secure a confined space and failing to warn workers of a, fatal, 2018 water pipe test which drowned the teenager. The New Brunswick Court of Appeal upheld the conviction and three-year sentence in January 2025.

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Blog Post #1707 – Workplace Injury Results in $115,000 Fine for Leamington-based Company

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Highline Produce Limited of Leamington, Ontario, a mushroom growing company, was critically injured operating equipment for which no measures, procedures, guards or other devices where in place to prevent access to a hazard. Highline Produce Limited failed to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker in the workplace, a violation of section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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