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Q. What constitutes a company requiring confined space policies, procedures, air monioring, and confined space training?
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A. We don't provide confined space training. I did manage to find a recent fine with regards to your question.
BARRIE, ON, Jan. 7 /CNW/ - A Bradford-based commercial chicken processing
company pleaded guilty and was fined $150,000 in the Ontario Court of Justice
today in connection with the 2006 death of a worker.
Justice of the Peace Brian O. Norton heard that on April 7, 2006, a
worker in Bradford, had
entered an empty 80,000 litre water tank to weld a crack. When the welding
torch was ignited an explosion occurred. The worker suffered third degree
burns and died in hospital.
Investigations by the Ministry of Labour and the Office of the Fire
Marshall found that the fuel source for the explosion was clear and odorless,
naturally occurring methane gas that had likely entered the tank in the water
drawn from the employer's well.
The investigations concluded that the absence of a confined space policy
and an air monitoring protocol allowed the explosive build-up of gas to go
undetected. The employer did not have any written procedures for confined
space entry or the appropriate testing equipment to monitor the air quality in
the tank. As a result, the worker had not been provided with appropriate
confined space entry training.
The employer pleaded guilty to failing to provide information,
instruction and supervision to the worker to protect health and safety as
required by section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act by
failing to provide instruction on confined space entry protocols and
procedures.
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