Ask The Expert: When Newly Installed Equipment Poses Ergonomic Hazards

You must at least consider using engineering controls to manage MSD hazards.

Arbitrator Can’t Order Company Not to Enforce Privacy-Invasive Security Policy

The union cried foul when a food distribution company adopted a new security policy allowing for random searches of employees in storage areas and asked the arbitrator to issue an order to ?stay,?

Employer Used Due Diligence to Prevent Worker’s Fatal H2S Gas Exposure

While working alone inside an oilfield facility building, a sales rep drawing a liquid product sample is killed by a lethal release of Hydrogen Sulphide gas.

Boss’s Sex Harassment, Assault = Constructive Dismissal

A booking agent claimed she began receiving unwanted sexual attention from her boss, the sole owner of the company, 2 weeks into her employment.

Ask The Expert: JHSC Certification Training in Alberta

Don?t provide training until the govt. publishes the training criteria and approved trainers list.

Worker Should Have Been Reinstated after Passing Independent Medical Exam

The union contended that a university failed to accommodate a driver who delivered medical samples and live animals in a climate-controlled truck by delaying his return to work for over a year.

Supervisor Says Fall Protection Is Unnecessary But Board Doesn’t Buy It

An OHS inspector issued a $250 administrative monetary penalty to a supervisor after observing 2 of his workers on the roof of a 2-storey building wearing safety harnesses not secured to an anchor point.

Employer Socked with $40K OHS Fine

After pleading guilty to 3 OHS offences, including failure to ensure proper safety training and instruction and machine safety.

Unfair to Dismiss Firefighter’s Sex Harassment Complaint

A volunteer firefighter claimed that the Human Rights Commission dismissed her sex harassment complaint without doing a fair investigation.

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18-Month OHS Trial Delay Limit Doesn’t Apply to Laying of Charges

In a 2016 case called R v. Jordan, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that an OHS trial delay of 18 months or more is presumed to violate a defendant?s right to a speedy trial unless the prosecutor can rebut the presumption.

Year-End Compliance Briefing: Alberta 2018 OHS Year In Review

After decades of neglect, Alberta?s OHS laws get a Bill 30 makeover.

Assault of Co-Worker = Just Cause to Fire Supervisor

Tensions between a supervisor and what he perceived to be a noncompliant forklift driver reached a crescendo in the lunchroom.

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