Posts Tagged As: Lockout and tagout training in Peterborough

Blog Post #1634 – Workplace Injury Results in $175,000 Fine for Drayton Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Marvara Farms Ltd. of Drayton, Ontario, an agricultural business that also operates a recycling and reclaiming factory, was critically injured after falling from equipment in the factory into an operating cardboard bale hopper. Marvara Farms Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 76 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 at a workplace were enforced, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1580 – Workplace Injury Results in $110,000 Fine for Toronto Dairy Products Employer

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker sustained burns while trying to repair a Cleaning in Place (CIP) pipeline system. Lactalis Canada Inc., situated at The West Mall, Toronto, Ontario, failed, as an employer, to provide information, instruction and supervision to protect the health and safety of the worker with respect to the safe lockout and tagout of the CIP pipeline system, contrary to section  25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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