Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Impex Granite & Marble Ltd., a Concord importer and distributor of granite and marble, was fined $70,000 on June 26, 2009, for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was killed.
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Central Machine and Marine Inc., a Sarnia machine shop specializing in large marine repairs, was fined $65,000 on May 14, 2009, for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was seriously injured.
Excerpt From the Ontario Government’s ‘Newsroom’
TDL Spring & Suspension Specialists Inc., an Ottawa company that repairs trucks and buses, was fined $120,000 on May 11, 2009, for violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), after a worker was fatally injured.
By Emily Landau — (Emily is the editorial assistant at the OHS Canada magazine)
Work role overload is creating stress among a growing number of health care professionals, notes a report released in January.
Defining role overload as “having too many responsibilities and too little time in which to attend to them,” the review cites some of the contributing factors as understaffing, competing priorities (both at work and at home) and the organizational culture of the health care system. The last necessitates urgency, thereby making it difficult for health care providers to say “no” to any given task.