No safety committee, providing false information to WorkSafeBC among violations
This firm operates a food processing facility and warehouse distribution centre. WorkSafeBC conducted a series of inspections of the work site and observed multiple health and safety violations.
The firm failed to ensure machinery was equipped with adequate safeguards to prevent workers from accessing hazardous points of operation, a high-risk violation. It failed to ensure maintenance work was not done on machinery until it was locked out, repeated and high-risk violations. It failed to ensure its lift truck operators received training in accordance with the required standard, a repeated violation.
The firm also failed to establish safe work procedures to minimize the possibility of collision in hazardous work areas. In addition, the firm failed to establish a joint health and safety committee as required, a repeated violation, and failed to provide its workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety.
Also, the firm knowingly provided a WorkSafeBC officer with false information.
Source: WorkSafeBC
