Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2022)
Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is doubling rebates for businesses with less than 99 workers who are enrolled in the agency’s Health and Safety Excellence program.
Blog Post #1386 – Canadians Know Dangers of Distracting Driving, but do it Anyway: Survey
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2022)
Canadians are well aware of the dangers of distracted driving, but that is not stopping many of them from engaging in unsafe behaviours.
Blog Post #1385 – Workplace Fatality Results in $120,000 Fine for Welland-Based Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was fatally injured while performing duties at a construction site in Welland, ON.
Blog Post #1381 – Migrant Worker Killed by Coronavirus on an Ontario Farm
Excerpt from the Summer 2022 Edition of the OH&S Canada magazine
Scottlynn Sweet Pac Growers in Vittoria, Ontario, plead guilty to health and safety violations after one of its workers contracted Covid-19 and died. It was fined $125,000 plus a 25% victim fine surcharge. The maximum fine the court could have imposed was $1.5 million.