Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Rieter Automotive Mastico Ltd. was fined $120,000 on May 11, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was seriously injured.
Blog Post #295 – Final Descent – “The Sullivan Mine Disaster”
Good intention, an unforeseen response, a preventable accident. Four lives were lost when, one by one, the individuals entered a sump at an inactive mine in British Columbia. A reclamation project, it seems, transformed a once-safe work area into a deadly zone. Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine By: Jean Lian It all seems so … Continue Reading
Blog Post #299 – Atlas Dewatering and Supervisor Fined $81,000 Total after Worker Injured
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Atlas Dewatering Corporation, a Concord company dealing in groundwater control, was fined $75,000 on February 10, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was critically injured. Patrick Maher, a supervisor with the company, was fined $6,000 in relation to the same incident.
Blog Post #290 – The Westray Conundrum
Westray won an award as Canada’s safest mine barely a month before it sent 26 men to their deaths. Six years later, with the release of the report of the Westray Inquiry, a baffling and disturbing picture emerges that should make every health and safety professional think long and hard about how safety systems fail.
Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By: Dean Jobb