Ask The Expert: Can You Make Workers Wear “Uncomfortable” PPE?
Don?t let your workers trade health and safety for physical comfort
Plant Can’t Ban Short Pants to Protect Workers from Aluminum Exposure
A window and door manufacturing plant revoked workers? right to wear Bermuda shorts at work.
Firing Addicted Nurse for Stealing Drugs May Be Discrimination
A hospital fired a registered nurse with 28 years of service for stealing narcotic drugs. The union grieved contending that the nurse had a disability, drug addiction, and was thus entitled to accommodations.
Firing Bookkeeper for Confidentiality Breach ≠ OHS Reprisal
An ex-employee asked a bookkeeper for confidential contact information on the organization?s board members so she could sue the executive director for sex harassment.
Ask The Expert: At What Height Is Fall Protection Required?
Fall protection is required for work 3 metres or more above the surface.
Union Wins Temporary Ban on Random Drug Testing Policy
The union challenged a helicopter transport company?s random drug testing of safety-sensitivity employees and asked the arbitrator to bar enforcement of the policy until the case was heard.
How to Create a Visitors Safety Policy GalleryHow to Create a Visitors Safety Policy
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How to Create a Visitors Safety Policy
Protecting your own workers isn?t enough to keep a workplace safe and compliant.
No Proof Neck Symptoms Are Recurrence of Previous Work Injury
After nearly 8 years of stability, a welder began experiencing neck pain that he contended were caused by an earlier work-related head and neck injury covered by workers? comp.
Was Worker Fired for Using Medical Marijuana for Her Disability?
A store fired an assistant manager soon after learning that she used medical marijuana for migraine headaches and anxiety.
How to Use Progressive Discipline to Enforce Workplace Safety Rules GalleryHow to Use Progressive Discipline to Enforce Workplace Safety Rules
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How to Use Progressive Discipline to Enforce Workplace Safety Rules
How to Use Progressive Discipline to Enforce Workplace Safety Rules.
Employer Not Liable for Experienced Crew’s Rigging Accident
A crew was installing a heavy metal boom stick onto a side boom Caterpillar tractor, using a sling held by a tractor to move the stick into position.
Termination Not Safety Reprisal Despite Highly Suspicious Timing
A worker fired just 3 days after raising safety concerns about the hydraulic fluid level of the heavy hauler he was driving claimed reprisal.
Railway Wins Temporary Reprieve from Order to Install Costly Light Towers
An MOL inspector investigating a railroad switch worker?s death determined that lighting levels in the yard were out of compliance and ordered the railway to construct new light towers within 7 months.
Risk of Inmate Attack ≠ Valid Grounds for Corrections Manager to Refuse Work
A Correctional Manager hurt his knee after being attacked by an inmate during a meeting. Five days later, he initiated a work refusal claiming that the employer?s refusal to let him carry OC (oleoresin of capsicum) spray violated PPE requirements and put him in danger.