Workplace health and safety crimes
By: Norm Keith
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Markham, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780433475941
Subjects: Industrial safety; Law and legislation; Criminal provisions; Industrial hygiene; Criminal liability of juristic persons; Corporation law
Description: "It has been 10 years since Bill C-45 was passed into law, a Criminal Code amendment that created the indictable offence of occupational health and safety (OHS) negligence. Norm Keith, a partner in a leading Canadian national law firm and a renowned, international expert on OHS issues, wrote the first in-depth analysis of Bill C-45, and its implications for workplace health and safety practices, in the book's 2004 second edition. In this third edition, the author reviews 10 years of all the cases that have been prosecuted under this legislation, including the seminal case of R. v. Metron Construction Corporation, involving the prosecution and conviction of an employer for the deaths of four workers in the 2009 Christmas Eve scaffold collapse in Toronto"--Pub. desc.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Introduction; title: Chapter 2: Background to Bill C-45; title: Chapter 3: The Law of Criminal Negligence; title: Chapter 4: Detailed Analysis of Bill C-45; title: Chapter 5: Understanding Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Law; title: Chapter 6: Criminal Code Enforcement Proceedings; title: Chapter 7: International Trends in Workplace Health and Safety Crimes; title: Appendix A: Bill C-45; title: Appendix B: Westray Mine Disaster; title: Factual and Legal Chronology; title: Appendix C: Consolidated Recommendations of the Westray Inquiry; title: Appendix D: R. v. Fantini; title: Appendix E: R. v. Transpavé Inc.; title: Appendix F: R. v. Metron Construction (O.C.J.); title: Appendix G: R. v. Metron Construction (Ont. C.A.).