Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Katoen Natie Canada, a Quebec-based logistics services provider, was fined $70,000 on June 25, 2009, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was injured.
Blog Post #90 – Impex Granite & Marble Ltd. Fined $70,000 After Worker Killed
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Impex Granite & Marble Ltd., a Concord importer and distributor of granite and marble, was fined $70,000 on June 26, 2009, for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker was killed.
Blog Post #87 – Little Positive about Being Overloaded – Stress
By Emily Landau — (Emily is the editorial assistant at the OHS Canada magazine)
Work role overload is creating stress among a growing number of health care professionals, notes a report released in January.
Defining role overload as “having too many responsibilities and too little time in which to attend to them,” the review cites some of the contributing factors as understaffing, competing priorities (both at work and at home) and the organizational culture of the health care system. The last necessitates urgency, thereby making it difficult for health care providers to say “no” to any given task.
Blog Post #86 – 4 steps for Conducting an ‘Internal Accident Investigation’
Written by Timothy Bryant 21 September 2010
It is any workplace’s worst nightmare: an injury to a worker while on the job. Yet for all the horror it brings, it is also a disturbingly common event. Employers are required by law to take all steps necessary to prevent their workers from being injured on the job. But what happens if a worker does get hurt?
Because workplace injury is a reality that many employers may face, will face or have faced at some point, it’s wise to have a plan for when an accident does happen, according to OHS legal experts.
The first thing every employer needs to have is an accident plan, says Jeremy Warning, a senior associate with Toronto-based law firm Heenan Blaikie.