Report from the OHS Canada magazine (Winter 2023)
The investigation into the causes of a fatal blast at a propane company north of Montreal could be long and complex, police said, after three bodies were found at the site.
Blog Post #1634 – Workplace Injury Results in $175,000 Fine for Drayton Company
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Marvara Farms Ltd. of Drayton, Ontario, an agricultural business that also operates a recycling and reclaiming factory, was critically injured after falling from equipment in the factory into an operating cardboard bale hopper. Marvara Farms Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 76 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 at a workplace were enforced, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1629 – Ontario’s Naloxone Rules Take Effect June 2023
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.
Blog Post #1628 – Workplace Injury Results in $79,500 Fine for Woodbridge Company
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.