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Ontario's WSIB launched it's "Road to Zero" program in 2008 (to continue to 2012) to achieve zero fatalities, injuries and illnesses in the workplace.
On March 31st, 2004, the newly amended Bill C-45 which came into force and states that:
"Everyone who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to
take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task."
Significant Stats
- CCOHS states that "Statistics show that the majority (60 percent) of falls happen on the same level resulting from slips and trips. The remaining 40 percent are falls from a height."
- CCOHS further states that in Canada, "some sixty thousand workers get injured annually due to fall accidents. This number represents about fifteen percent of the "time-loss injuries" that were accepted by workers' compensation boards or commissions across Canada. Not mentioning a great economical loss, it amounts for a lot of pain and suffering and sometimes (much too often) even death. All these, in most of cases, do not have to happen." (document confirmed current June 5, 2008)
