Employer fined $70K for failure to comply with workplace violence, harassment requirements
In the first publicly reported case of its kind, the Ministry of Labour has made it clear they will strictly enforce workplace violence and harassments requirements set out by the OHSA.
An Ontario employer has been fined $70,000 ($87,500 with the surcharge applied) after being convicted of failing to comply with seven Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) orders issued to bring the company into compliance with workplace violence and harassment requirements. Under the OHSA, employers are required to assess the risk of workplace violence, develop policies on workplace violence and harassment, develop, maintain and implement a program to deal with workplace violence and harassment, and train their employees on these policies and programs. It appears that the employer in this case failed to meet the requirements and then failed to comply with the resulting Ministry of Labour (MOL) order.
Article spotted by Stacy Glass
Original article by Laura Russell and Erich Schafer
Originally published February 22, 2017 on Canadian Occupational Safety
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