Posts Tagged As: Policies and Procedures

Blog Post #1556 – Workplace Fatality Results in $120,000 Fine for Lucan, Ontario-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 A worker was fatally injured due to carbon monoxide exposure following a fire in an oil‐lubricated air compressor. OJB Industries Inc. of Lucan, Ontario, failed, as an employer, to ensure that measures and procedures prescribed by section 10(5) of Ontario Regulation 833, CONTROL OF EXPOSURE TO BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL AGENTS, were carried out at a workplace contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Blog Post #1550 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for London-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 A worker was critically injured while moving a heavy metal beam at the Facility. Misteelco Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure the beam was handled without endangering the safety of a worker as prescribed by section 45(b) of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments and contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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