Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
Employers in Prince Edward Island continue to report high levels of overall satisfaction with the province’s Workers’ Compensation Board, according to new survey data.
Blog Post #1616 – Two Windsor Companies Fined $130,000 in Total After Worker Injury
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Description of Offence: Two workers were injured when a section of an unbraced masonry block wall collapsed.
Fortis Construction Group Inc. failed, as a constructor, to ensure that the wall was adequately braced as required by section 31(1)(b) of Regulation 213/91, a violation of section 23(1)(b) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1613 – New Safety Officers at Manitoba Hospitals Aimed at Reducing Workplace Violence
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2022)
Specially trained and better equipped security staff now working at Manitoba’s largest hospital – The Sciences Centre – in a bid to reduce violence against health-care workers. More institutional safety officers, armed with pepper gel and greater powers than regular security guards, are to be posted later in other health-care settings.
Blog Post #1612 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for Ottawa Construction Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was injured by a swinging peri box that was rigged to a tower crane. Claridge Homes Inc., from Ottawa, Ontario, failed to ensure that the measures and procedures required by section 179(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section23(1)(a) of the Ontario Health and Safety Act.