Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Winter 2023)
Ontario has apologized to mine workers in the province who were exposed to McIntyre Powder.
Blog Post #1628 – Workplace Injury Results in $79,500 Fine for Woodbridge Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures dairy products, was critically injured while attempting to clean waste cheese particles out of a groove in a conveyor drive roller. By not ensuring the conveyor was equipped with a guard, Saputo failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1627 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Kitchener Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Inject Tech Plastics of Kitchener, Ontario, a company that provided molding solutions and assembly services to the medical, automotive and consumer industries, was critically injured after they backed into racking while operating a lift truck. By failing to provide proper training and supervision to the worker on the safe operation of lift trucks, Inject Tech Plastics failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 51(2)(a) of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) and section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1625 – Workplace Injury Results in $200,000 Fine for Owen Sound Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Pickard Construction of Owen Sound, Ontario, was critically injured while their crew was clearing a blockage from a pipe near a live overhead hydro line. By not ensuring precautions were in place to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations and conductors, Pickard Construction failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 183 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.