Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
Quebec’s workplace safety board says a lack of training and equipment contributed to the deaths of two firefighters during a flood northeast of Quebec City in May 2023.
Blog Post #1614 – Workplace Fatality Results in $100,000 Fine for London Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Integrated Solutions Inc., of London, Ontario, a company that installs satellite dishes on residential roofs, was fatally injured by a fall while installing a satellite dish on the roof of a residence. By not ensuring the worker used fall protection while on the roof, Integrated Solutions Inc. failed to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker, contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1613 – New Safety Officers at Manitoba Hospitals Aimed at Reducing Workplace Violence
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2022)
Specially trained and better equipped security staff now working at Manitoba’s largest hospital – The Sciences Centre – in a bid to reduce violence against health-care workers. More institutional safety officers, armed with pepper gel and greater powers than regular security guards, are to be posted later in other health-care settings.
Blog Post #1612 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for Ottawa Construction Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was injured by a swinging peri box that was rigged to a tower crane. Claridge Homes Inc., from Ottawa, Ontario, failed to ensure that the measures and procedures required by section 179(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section23(1)(a) of the Ontario Health and Safety Act.