Posts Categorized As: Machine Guarding

Blog Post #1471 – Kitchener Company and CEO Fined $100,000 in Total for Machine Guarding Violations

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

THS Industries Ltd., as an employer, and Xiaoye He, as a Director, failed to take all reasonable care to ensure equipment, materials and protective devices, as prescribed by Section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, were provided for nail-maker machines, leaving workers at risk of accessing moving parts inside the machines.

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Blog Post #1461 – Six Manitoba Companies Fined

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Oct. 2016)

The Workplace Safety and Health branch (WSH) of Manitoba Growth, Enterprise and Trade ministry announced August 16, 2016, that it had issued fines totalling more than $111,000 to the following six employers from March to mid-July for contravening Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Act.

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