Digital Government and Service NL today announced that Bluebird Investments Limited, of Grand Falls-Windsor, and a company supervisor have been charged with violations under Newfoundland and Labrador’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
The charges result from an investigation by Digital Government and Service NL’s Occupational Health and Safety Division following an incident, which occurred in December 2020, resulting in serious injuries to an employee from a fall, which occurred at a construction site in Corner Brook.
Bluebird Investments Limited is charged with eight violations, which relate to its alleged failure as an employer to:
- Provide a safe workplace and the necessary equipment, systems and tools that were without risk to workers;
- Provide the information, instruction, training, supervision and facilities to ensure a safe workplace;
- Ensure that workers, and especially supervisors, were made familiar with the hazards;
- Ensure that their occupational health and safety program included written safe work procedures appropriate to the hazards;
- Ensure that safe work procedures were followed;
- Ensure that work procedures promoted the safe interaction of workers and their work environment;
- Ensure that regular inspections of the workplace were conducted that would ensure safe working conditions;
- Ensure that appropriate fall protection was used where a worker is exposed to a hazard of falling from a work area that is three meters or more above a safe surface.
The company supervisor is charged with alleged failure to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all workers under his or her supervision.
The company’s first appearance is scheduled for November 29, 2022, at Provincial Court in Corner Brook.
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Media contact
Krista Dalton
Digital Government and Service NL
709-729-4748, 685-6492
kristadalton@gov.nl.ca