Inspectors issue 333 stop work orders
An Ontario safety blitz focused on the low rise construction industry resulted in 333 stop work orders in May.
Ministry of Labour mining inspectors conducted 1,068 field visits to 844 workplaces and issued 3,251 orders under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, including 333 stop work orders.
The blitz focused on fall protection, site excavations and trenching, concrete form-setting operations, overexertion, safe use of equipment, noisy environments and new and young workers, according to the ministry.
Between 2006 and 2010, 26 workers died at low-rise residential construction sites and 329 were critically injured.
In 2009 alone, a total of 422 lost-time injury (LTI) claims cost the homebuilding sector $3.4 million – about 18 per cent of the total cost of all construction industry LTI claims for that year.
