Posts Categorized As: Machine Guarding

Blog Post #1111 – 5 Ways to be Ready for a Safety Blitz

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Written by David Reiter and Cynthia Sefton

(David and Cyhthia are partners with Aird and Berlis in Toronto.)

Safety blitz is in Ontario occur when the Ministry of Labour (MOL) attends a workplace unannounced to inspect the workplace for Occupational Health & Safety Act compliance.

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Blog Post #1105 – Injury on Cutting Machine Results in $60,000 in Fines for Scarborough Noodle Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Hung Wang Foods Inc., a company that operates a noodle manufacturing facility, suffered injury while attempting to clear dough that was jammed in a noodle cutting machine. Fred King-Cheong Fung, a director of the company, was also charged in the incident.

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Blog Post #1101 – Worker Fatality in Brampton, Company Fined $175,000

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

On a worksite of a warehouse under construction in Brampton, Ontario, an employee of Dematic Limited, a company that provides supply chain automation, material handling, warehouse management, became pinned between the guardrail of a work platform and a steel structure and died from the injuries. The accident occurred on August 06, 2016.

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