Posts Tagged As: worker health

Blog Post #1289 – Injury in Meat Packing Plant Results in $50,000 Fine for Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed at the Erie Meat Products Ltd. Plant in Mississauga, Ontario, was cleaning excess packaging from a machine was injured after removing interlocking guards from the front of the machine. The company failed to ensure that the hot dog loader/packer machine was locked-out when the worker was removing excess plastic.

Blog Post#1286 – Union Challenges New Ratios

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2014)

The union representing more than 7000 Air Canada flight attendants is challenging a decision from the federal government to exempt the airline from maintaining the current ratio of one flight attendant for every 40 passenger seats.

Blog Post #1284 – Ontario Ministry of Labour Lays Charges

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2014) Ontario’s Ministry of Labour has laid 22 Occupational Health & Safety charges against two companies and three individuals, following a dramatic helicopter rescue late last year. (2013) On December 17, 2013, the crane operator was working at a construction project in Kingston, Ontario when he suffered burns … Continue Reading