Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Metro Ontario Inc., a retail grocer, was fined $350,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a young worker’s death.
Blog Post #291 – Drum Technician Crushed after Concert Stage Collapses
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
In what is becoming an all-too-common occurrence in the summer months, an outdoor concert stage in Ontario has collapsed, leaving a mess of tangled steel, one worker dead and a lot of questions for the province’s safety regulator to sift through.’
Blog Post #289 – Workers in Conditions that are Wanting
Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
A British Columbia reforestation company has been ordered to pay more than $232,000 after the province’s labour ministry discovered violations ranging from unpaid wages to unauthorized deductions.
Blog Post #287 – Confined Space and its Hazards – Death by Design
Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By: Jason Contant
On the morning of September 5, 2008, a plumber was called to A-1 Mushroom Substratum Ltd. in Langley, British Columbia for the second time in as many days. There, he found an intake pipe at the bottom of a pump shed completely blocked and informed a supervisor at the mushroom composting facility that a company with expertise in sewer pump-out would be needed.