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Are Companies Liable for Environmental Offences of a Rogue Employee?
Should a company be liable for an environmental offence committed by an individual or group [...]
Fatigue Management Policy
BENEFITS Worker fatigue may not seem like a workplace safety issue but it is. For [...]
Alberta, Canada Human Rights Tribunal Reminds Employees They Have Duties In The Workplace Accommodation Process
In Zupcic v Saputo Foods Limited, 2022 AHRC 13 (Saputo), the Human Rights Tribunal of [...]
Whom To Call To Report a Spill or Discharge
Every jurisdiction has an 'emergency spill hotline' that you can call to report a spill [...]
Additional Tools, Insight & Solutions
Employer Pays The Price When Supervisor Tells Worker To Lie About Workplace Injury
There's a kernel of truth in every clich‚, including the one about the coverup being worse than the crime. An [...]
Ontario Makes 5 Key Changes to OHS Incident Reporting Rules
All jurisdictions require employers to provide the government OHS agency a written notice and report of certain kinds of workplace [...]
Failure to Guard Conveyor Results in Entanglement Death and $350,000 Fine
A worker clearing a conveyor system chute lost his life when his leg became entangled in the conveyor. The employer, [...]
Failing to Follow Voluntary ANSI Standard Isn’t an OHS Violation
CNESST cited an employer for failure to provide safe equipment, namely, a jack not equipped with an anti-rotation rod and [...]
Sleeping On Duty Is Just Cause to Fire Nuclear Plant Safety Operator
A nuclear plant supervisor caught a decontamination operator tucked behind a drying machine sleeping on duty. Coupled with his record [...]
Employer Need Not Go Beyond COVID Health Orders to Protect Workers
TTC implemented a mandatory face mask rule, made face shields, safety glasses and disinfectant wipes available, disinfected buses every 23 [...]
Construction Company Fined $175,000 for Bridge Worker’s Fatality
A 120-foot long temporary modular bridge being lowered into place from both ends at the same time by a pair [...]
Dept. of Transportation Fined Nearly $100,000 for Fatality to Contractor’s Worker
A government agency has been hit with an $97,250 in OHS penalties, including a creative sentence of $80,000 to make [...]