Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2022)
Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is doubling rebates for businesses with less than 99 workers who are enrolled in the agency’s Health and Safety Excellence program.
Blog Post #1385 – Workplace Fatality Results in $120,000 Fine for Welland-Based Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was fatally injured while performing duties at a construction site in Welland, ON.
Blog Post #1384 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Stratford Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by FIO Automotive Canada Corporation (FIO), suffered a critical injury at the workplace when a 1,500-pund feed bar was knocked out of its support cradle and struck the worker who was operating the crane. FIO contravened a section of the ‘Industrial Regulations’ by failing to ensure that a feed bar that may tip or fall and endanger any worker was secured against tipping or falling.
Blog Post #1382 – Workplace Injury Results in $25,000 Fine for Guelph Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker employed by Trouw Nutrition suffered an injury at the workplace due to a lift truck accident. Trouw Nutrition failed to notify an inspector immediately of the occurrence of a critical injury, as required.