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Alberta Orders Non-Essential Businesses to Close & Further Restricts Group Gatherings – Updated April 16/20
AB government defined a list of essential services and ordered many businesses to close in response to the new limit of 15 people in group gatherings.
Read moreAtlantic Canada Response to COVID-19 – Updated March 5/21
Atlantic Canada, like elsewhere in the country have started to take more significant measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Read moreOntario OHSA Fine Signals Future Significant Director & Officer Prosecution Risk
The case involving a workplace explosion and Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) prosecution against Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter Limited of Ottawa, Ontario and its owner and Director Neil Greene, wrapped on Friday April 5, 2024 with guilty pleas and penalties for both the company and its Director. The terrible incident, which occurred in January 2022, resulted in fatal injuries to 6 workers, and catastrophic ones to a 7th worker, one of the worst losses of life and injury in a workplace accident in Canadian history. In addition to imposing a high OHSA corporate fine, the case has sent a chilling message about future OHS prosecution risk to Canadian corporate directors and officers.
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