As someone who writes about workplace safety, I feel like I spend a lot of time writing about workplace injuries and deaths from, say, explosions or falls but not much time focusing on occupational illnesses. The fact is that exposure in the workplace to certain …

Companies have a clear responsibility—both legal and moral—to protect the environment. In fact, companies’ environmental performance records are under more and more scrutiny by government agencies as well as customers and investors. Just look at the public reaction to BP’s efforts to stop and contain …

Creating safe work practices, policies and procedures and training workers to follow them isn’t enough to ensure compliance. Workers don’t always follow the rules or act in accordance with their training. You need to anticipate that workers will sometimes commit safety infractions and, in certain …

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ON: R. v. Racco Industrial Catering Ltd., [2008] O.J. No. 4496, Nov. 7, 2008
What Happened: Vehicles servicing a construction site were restricted to a turnaround area and were barred from going in reverse unless absolutely necessary and only then if aided by a signaller. …