Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Marcelo Ponciano, a representative with Toronto-based Asbescan Environmental Company Inc., was fined $15,000 on June 22, 2011, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act, after refusing to cooperate with Ministry of Labour inspectors.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
Three workers were injured, one fatally, during a boiler explosion at a heating plant in Ottawa last fall.
Paramedics were called to the plant — which services, among other federal structures, the Parliament buildings and the Supreme Court of Canada — at about 12:15 pm on October 19, says J.P. Trottier, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Paramedic Service.
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Mary O’Neill, a supervisor, was fined $8,000 on November 9, 2010, for violating asbestos regulations imposed by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Gestion Beaumet Inc., a Quebec construction company, was fined a total of $80,000 on October 13, 2010, for failing to post warning signs at a construction project, a violation the Occupational Health and Safety Act.