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 #1387 – More than 7,000 Young Workers Injured on the Job: WorkSafeBC
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2022)
In 2021, WorkSafeBC reported 7,125 accepted claims related to injuries from young workers. With summer upon us and young workers set to enter the workforce for seasonal jobs, the insurer of workers in BC is reminding workers about their rights, and employers about their responsibilities.
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.