Does wearing a seatbelt actually heighten the danger of injury?
An engineer tested positive for alcohol after his locomotive collided with a vehicle. The union didn?t deny the engineer was impaired on the job but claimed that termination was too harsh and violated his right to accommodations under human rights laws.
A dock supervisor brought a work refusal claiming that the dock plates bridging the gap between the loading dock and delivery truck were unsafe.
February 27th, 2019 | Due diligence requires that employers impose consequences - often discipline - on employees for safety violations. But what level of discipline will ?stick??
It has been famously said that ?hard cases make bad law?; sometimes, however, hard cases make new law. ÿOr, at least, they very much encourage the court to do so lest we give credence to Mr. Bumble?s lament in Oliver Twist: ÿ?If the law supposes that ... the law is an ass?.
Smoke-free workplaces aren?t just a health imperative but a legal one.
Banning workplace smoking & vaping is a universal duty but the rules vary significantly by jurisdiction.
Testing should be done before exposure, periodically and after acute exposure
PPE, first aid and hearing protection will be the first OHS regulations affected by harmonization
Is your workplace on the MOL's hit list?
Employers must be able to control the timing and processing of drug/alcohol testing
You can?t fault the persistence of the probationary government employee who wasn?t offered a heavy equipment operator job back in Feb. 2015.
Causing a propane spill by backing up his propane delivery truck without first checking to ensure the hoses were disconnected was the last straw for a worker with previous safety violations.
An injured worker found to have fraudulently received nearly $45K in fraudulent workers? comp benefits filed for bankruptcy before the WCB could get the money back.
