{"id":154,"date":"2008-04-24T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=154"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:43:18","slug":"employer-liabiltiy-for-workplace-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Employer Liabiltiy for Workplace Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2007\/2007onca769\/2007onca769.html\"><em>R. v. Dofasco Inc.<\/em><\/a>, 2007 ONCA 769, is a succinct read on employer liability for workplace accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The case concerns Dofasco&#8217;s failure to ensure the statutorily mandated placement of a guard on a piece of steel rolling equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The case deals with a number of important issues:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard of Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The interpretation of the statute is a question of law to be considered on a correctness standard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Meaning of a &#8220;Guard&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guard means guard, as in something fixed onto the machine that keeps a worker from getting inadvertent access to the danger presented by that machine. Not a safety procedure or some external unattached device available to the worker, so is important to keep security, with an accident lawyer from sites as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoaccidentattorneysanantonio.org\/\">www.autoaccidentattorneysanantonio<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Worker&#8217;s Contributing Conduct<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The worker&#8217;s conduct in failing to follow company procedure, short of intentionally spiting the employer, is not a defence to the employer&#8217;s failure to comply with the statute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due Diligence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defences of taking reasonable steps or a mistaken belief that reasonable steps had been taken will not be a defence where the steps taken and subsequent mistaken belief do not track the underlying statutory requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of R. v. Dofasco Inc., 2007 ONCA 769, is a succinct read on employer liability for workplace accidents. The case concerns Dofasco&#8217;s failure to ensure the statutorily mandated placement of a guard on a piece of steel rolling equipment. The case deals with a number of important issues: Standard of Review The interpretation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-labour-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}