Company ‘went to considerable lengths to put effective policies, processes and procedures in place to ensure that a focus on safety permeated down to how crews did their work’
An Alberta employer in the oil and gas industry has been cleared of multiple charges in the wake of an accident that seriously injured a worker. In dismissing the charges, the Alberta Provincial Court noted the company’s extensive safety programs and the fact that the unsafe conditions weren’t reasonably foreseeable by the company and its experienced workers, who called it a “freak” accident.
