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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
United States | Publication | May 2022
We have warned for several years of federal and state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigations potentially resulting in criminal exposure for employers who are claimed to have willfully violated workplace health and safety standards. Now, a federal grand jury has indicted the operator and management personnel of a Wisconsin corn mill where a May 2017 explosion killed five workers and injured many more. The indictments include two counts relating to willful violations of OSHA grain-handling standards.
In particular, the grand jury charged the managers with document falsifications prior to and obstruction of the OSHA investigation of the incident, including:
The cautionary tale is plain—the cover-up is usually worse than the offense itself. Employers and facility owners and operators with responsibility for OSHA compliance must ensure they (1) have appropriate written policies and procedures in place to identify and reduce, eliminate and/or meaningfully address workplace hazards; (2) ensure workers are adequately and routinely trained concerning those hazards and their avoidance, as well as safe work practices for the various tasks in which they must engage; (3) conduct attorney-directed internal investigations of OSHA-reportable incidents to ensure work product protection applies to the conduct of those efforts and (4) engage forthrightly with OSHA when incidents occur that could subject the company to citations.
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Since 2022, the Government of Canada has introduced three waves of amendments to the Competition Act (Act), making substantive changes to Canada’s competition laws, with the most recent amendments receiving royal assent on June 20, 2024.
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