Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker fell from a second-storey level through an opening that should have had a guardrail to protect workers from injury. Robert C. Nearing Holdings Inc. operates a Canadian Tire outlet in the City of Thunder Bay.
Excerpt From the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Liteline Management Company Limited, a Brampton distributor of lighting products, was fined $50,000 on September 4, 2009, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was injured.
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Ford Motor Company of Canada has been fined $850,000 for violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after two workers were killed in separate incidents.
On Jan. 31, 2008, a worker was fatally injured at Ford’s Oakville, Ont., assembly plant after being crushed between two forklifts. The worker was standing beside a forklift when a co-worker reversed another forklift into the worker. A Ministry of Labour investigation found that the forklift operator did not keep a clear view of the vehicle’s path of travel while reversing.
As a Training Director for a Peterborough, Ontario-based company, HRS Group Inc., I have access to information concerning health and safety from all parts of Canada. As a member of the C.S.S.E. (Canadian Society of Safety Engineering) we are constantly inundated with the many accidents in the workplace all across Canada, any subsequent fines or jail time, and any possible corrective action applied to ensure the accident(s) do not have a recurrence.