Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (winter 2024)
This report was written by Gail J. Cohen, One of Canada’s most experienced and respected legal journalists and Gail is the former editor-in-chief of Canadian Lawyer, InHouse, 4Students and Law Times and their associated websites and digital initiatives.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Highline Produce Limited of Leamington, Ontario, a mushroom growing company, was critically injured operating equipment for which no measures, procedures, guards or other devices where in place to prevent access to a hazard. Highline Produce Limited failed to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker in the workplace, a violation of section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by NuStef Baking Ltd., of Vancouver, British Columbia, was injured while adjusting the speed of a batter depositor on an industrial oven. By not ensuring the equipment was properly guarded, NuStef Baking Ltd. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to sections 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Two workers, employed by Metex Heat Treating Ltd., a company that does heat treatment on metal parts and fasteners, were seriously injured in a flash fire while re-starting a furnace. The company failed, as an employer, 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.