Report by Anna Shoultz
(Anna Shoultz is an excellent free lance writer)
From the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2023)
With warmer weather arriving across Canada, we’ll soon be in the thick of summer heat. That means employers, and workers, need to prepare to avoid heat-related illnesses in the workplace.
Report from the government of ‘Ontario’s Newsroom’
A worker, Frontline Cable and Gas Services Inc., of Brantford, Ontario, an excavating contractor, employed by was fatally injured when the employer failed to install blocking required to prevent the collapse or movement of a piece of equipment being repaired. The employer failed to ensure that the provisions of section 108 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were complied with at a workplace, contrary to section 25(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by AMI Attachments Inc. of Hawksville, Ontario, a heavy construction equipment manufacturer, was seriously injured while operating a magnetic lifting device. AMI Attachments Inc. failed to assign a competent person to operate the lifting device, or to ensure the operator was instructed and accompanied by a competent person, as prescribed by section 51(2) of Ontario Regulation 851/90, contrary to sections 25(1)(c) and 66(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2023)
A chemical company was ordered to pay $16 million and sentenced to two years of probation for its role in a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area plant nearly a decade ago, federal prosecutors announced Monday.