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Blog Post #1322 – Platform Collapse Kills Two

January 20, 2022
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Construction, Due Diligence, Elevating Work Platforms, Employer Responsibilities, Engineering Standards, Fall Protection, Health and Safety, Ontario Health and Safety

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2015) Two workers have died after a mast-climbing work platform collapsed at a construction site in West Toronto on March 27, 2015.

Blog Post #1317 – Worker’s Fall Results in $60,000 Fine for Thunder Bay Employer

January 2, 2022
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Due Diligence, Employer Responsibilities, Fall Protection, Fall Protection, Health and Safety, Industrial, Ontario Health and Safety

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom A worker fell from a second-storey level through an opening that should have had a guardrail to protect workers from injury. Robert C....

Blog Post #1301 – Fall From Height Proved Fatal in Alberta

November 19, 2021
Dan
Alberta Safety, Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Due Diligence, Elevating Work Platforms, Employer Responsibilities, Fall Protection, Fall Protection

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2016) An employee of a steel manufacturing plant in South Edmonton died from a fall on January 19, 2016.

Blog Post #1293 – Worker’s Fall Through Skylight Results in $55,000 Fine for Chelmsford Building Centre

November 14, 2021
Dan
Blog, Canadian Health and Safety, Due Diligence, Employer Responsibilities, Fall Protection, Fall Protection, Health and Safety, Industrial, Ontario Health and Safety, Working at Heights

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’ A worker, employed by North West Lumber Co. Ltd. (NWL), operator of a Home Hardware Building Centre in Chelmsford, who was removing snow from...