Posts Tagged As: Safety Engineering

Blog Post #1399 – Workplace Fatality Results in $100,000 Fine for Picton Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker employed by Otter Energy Inc. was fatally injured at the workplace while performing a task associated with the installation of solar panels at the workplace. Otter Energy Inc. failed as an employer to ensure that every reasonable precaution was taken to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations, and conductors.

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Blog Post #1380 – Health Authority Charged

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2016)

An investigation by OH&S officials from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has led to charges against the Eastern Regional Health Authority or Eastern Health, one of its supervisors and two employees.

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Blog Post #1377 – Workplace Fatality Results in $60,000 Fine for Braeside Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker performing work for ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. suffered a fatality resulting from the use of a bucket truck. ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. failed, as a constructor, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by O. Reg. 213/91, made under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, were carried out at the project.

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