Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2016)
A group of LGBTQ individuals has launched a class-action lawsuit against the federal government, claiming decades’ worth of discrimination and persecution during their past employment as civil servants or military personnel. Many of them allegedly lost their jobs in a long-time purge of homosexual employees dating back to the 1950s.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Regional Sewer and Watermain Ltd., of Cambridge, Ontario was injured after falling from the bucket of a front-end loader. Regional Sewer and Watermain Ltd. failed to ensure the worker did not use the bucket of the front-end loader as a work platform, which is prohibited by section 107 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by the Corporation of the Municipality of Lambton Shores, in Forest, Ontario, was injured while trying to clean a Zamboni ice re-surfacer. The Corporation of the Municipality of Lambton Shores failed to provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker with respect to the safe operation, maintenance and/or cleaning of the ice re-surfacer, contrary to section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Sin Structures Inc. of Brampton, Ontario, was critically injured during the construction of a bridge. Contrary to safety procedures, Sin Structures Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure equipment was moved without endangering the safety of a worker as outlined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.