You have been provided with your own unique news release communiqu$$ from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, highlighting the reasons for fining a Corporation and$/$or Supervisor for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and$/$or mentioning failure to comply with Regulations made under the Act.

Using the headers provided here, please answer the following:

$1.$ List the events in this case that lead up to and include the accident.

$2.$ Describe the injury sustained and the direct cause.

$3.$ a$)$ What section$($s$)$ of the Act $($and what Regulation$($s$)$ if cited in your case$)$ were violated? Please write out verbatim those section$($s$)$ of the Act and Regulation$($s$).$

b$)$ What OTHER sections of the Act and Regulations COULD the company have been charged with in your case? Provide at least four $(4).$ Write out these sections verbatim. You do not have to defend your choices.

$4.$ a$)$ What was the amount of the fine$($s$)$ levied by the judge in your case?

Do not mention the victim fine surcharge amount.

b$)$ What sections of the Act guide the judge in the amount of the fines for individuals & Corporations? Write out these sections verbatim.

$5.$ What remedial actions $($Controls$)$ would you put in place to ensure this type of accident in your case does not reoccur in the future? Think of changes to the occupational health and safety management system. Be very specific to controlling your case issues.

You must use the headers # $1-5$ provided in this document.

The assignment will be graded on a scale of $05$ marks based on work quality, format & effort and thoroughness of specific remedial action plans. When providing remedial actions, generalizations that could be applied to any case will not be scored. the case is as followede $-$ Ministry of Labour

LOEB Canada Inc. fined $$75,000$ for health and safety violation

OTTAWA, May $8/$m$/-$ Web Canada Inc., an Ottawa$-$based grocery store

chain, waa fined $$75,000$ today for a violation of the Occupational Health and

Safety Act that resulted in serious injuries to a worker at a distribution

centre.

On July $12,2004,$ a truck driver wine u~ing an electric$-$powered lifting

device to unload pallete containing a load of goods when the unit went off the

loading dock through an open door of the loading bay. At the time of the

incident the driver had been attempting to manoeuvre the lifting device when

the driver somehow reversed the unit off the dock. The driver landed on the

ground and suffered a broken bone in the left ankle as well as scrapes to the

left forearm. The driver was employed by Thomson National Personnel. A

Ministry of Labour investigation found the driver had never received any

formal training on the use of the lifting device. The incident occurred in a

warehouse at Loeb Canada Inc.$\text{'}$~ distribution centre at $1184$ Old Innes Roetd in

Ottawa.

Loeb Canada Inc. pleaded guilty, as an employer, to failing to ensure the

lifting device was only operated by a competent person or by a worker

ccompanied and being inatmeted by a competent person, as required by Section

T~$($~XQ$.$~$-=$ of the Regulations for industrial Establishments. This was contrary

to Section $25(1)$ Ic$)$ of the act.

The fine was imposed by Justice of the Peace Louieette Girault of the

Ontario Court: of Justice in Ottawa. In addition, the court imposed a

$25-$per$-$cent victim Line surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act.

The suxeharge ie credited to a special provincial government fund to assist

victims of crime.

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Court Information at a Glance

Location:

Judge :

Ontario Court of Justice

$500$ Constellation Crescent, Courtroom $102$

Ottawa, Ontario

Juetiee of the Peace Louieette Girault

Date $/$ Time: May $8,2006,9$ a$.$m$.$

Defendant :

Matter:

Laeb Canada Iac.

Occupational Health & Safety

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