Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Winter 2023)
Ontario is offering employers free naloxone kits, and the training for workers to use them, in an effort to combat opioid overdoses. Kits are required to be available in high-risk workplaces by June 01, 2023.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures dairy products, was critically injured while attempting to clean waste cheese particles out of a groove in a conveyor drive roller. By not ensuring the conveyor was equipped with a guard, Saputo failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Inject Tech Plastics of Kitchener, Ontario, a company that provided molding solutions and assembly services to the medical, automotive and consumer industries, was critically injured after they backed into racking while operating a lift truck. By failing to provide proper training and supervision to the worker on the safe operation of lift trucks, Inject Tech Plastics failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 51(2)(a) of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) and section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by General Coach Canada of Hensall, Ontario, a company that manufactures and assembles park model and house trailers, was critically injured while cutting a piece of melamine with a table saw. By not ensuring the saw was equipped with a guard, General Coach Canada failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 24 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.