Human Resources and Health & Safety Articles

WINDSOR, ON – Canadian Electrocoating Ltd., a manufacturer in the automotive sector, pleaded guilty and has been fined $175,000 in the death of a worker. The fatality occurred on September

or the first time ever in Nova Scotia, an individual has been handed a jail sentence for charges under the province’s occupational health and safety act. Joseph Isnor was handed

The Ontario government has amended the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) and the WHMISRegulation (R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 860) made under the OHSA to adopt new, international standards that are part of the

Employers must train workers in hazard recognition and the care and safe use of equipment such as ladders and scaffolds, and fall protection systems. Ladder Safety: Employees must be trained to

An employer has beat occupational health and safety charges laid after its supervisor caused an explosion when he defied instructions and took it upon himself to use a torch to

Suspended Work Platforms and Boatswain’s Chairs interpretation and application 136.1 In sections 137 to 142.06, “allowable suspended load” means the combined weight of a suspended work platform or boatswain’s chair, the

Ladders 78. In sections 78 to 84, “extension trestle ladder” means a self-supporting portable ladder that is adjustable in length, consisting of a trestle ladder base, a vertically adjustable extension section

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Young people across Ontario are now working in their summer jobs, some of them for the first time. As a parent, I know we’re all proud when our kids enter

I recently came across the Ontario decision of Garreton v. Complete Innovations Inc.[1] from earlier this year.  While an interesting read for a number of employment reasons, it is a