the first case there is messed. the employee can't watch where he's walking?

Originally Posted by AdamCL

the first case there is messed. the employee can't watch where he's walking?

That's what it appears from the outside. What if this person was your son or daughter? If accidents were easily predictable or forseeable they wouldn't be called accidents, they would be called negligence. We don't know what exactly happened in this case but it is likely that this was no accident. The hazard was clearly visible and a slip hazard was foreseeable. And it may be possible that there were previous slip hazard incidents. There was possibly no safety programs in place or enforced for identifying and dealing with hazards.

This incident is similar to the commercial where the girl is holding a pot in a restaurant kitchen, and falls, with the pot landing on her face. Was it the girls fault? Was it the restaurants fault for not keeping the floors clean from grease? Can it be labelled as just a freak accident due the risk inherent to the job because every restaurant will have some grease on the floor? The restaurant could have protected themselves from liability if they had a scheduled maintenance program in place to keep the floors clean and documented to ensure that this program was enforced. Basically, when they show up in court, they have proof that they did everything they could to ensure the floors were kept clean.

Sounds like a lot of bullshit, waste of money, and paperwork but it only takes one injury and fine to change that. When a worker is injured the result is: lost production, workers comp payouts, tax payers money, OHIP, re-training new employee, company under ministry radar, insurance premiums, pain and suffering, loss of mobility to the employee as a result of his/her injuries. etc etc... .

^^^i didn't think of that

thanks for the reply