In reviewing health and safety initiatives in Ontario, the auditor general looked at companies that had been inspected by the ministry at least three times in the past six years. “The ministry’s enforcement efforts are not preventing many employers from continuing the same unsafe practices,” the report says. But while employers bear the most legal responsibility for workplace safety, the bulk of the ministry’s fines went to individual workers and supervisors. Following this newspaper report, an additional fatality occurred at this company in September 2019,” the auditor general’s report notes. The auditor general’s report noted that based on workers’ compensation data, Ontario has the lowest injury rate of any province since 2009.

Source: thestar December 05, 2019 00:00 UTC