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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more CAMH charged with not ensuring employees protected Toronto Star article discusses Ministry of Labour, Occupational Health and Safety Act charges From the article: After being ordered a year ago to create a safer workplace following a rash of attacks on nurses, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is being charged by the Ministry of Labour for not complying. "They (CAMH) failed miserably, in my view, to follow ministry orders to develop a policy properly and follow up, and make sure that everyone was safe," said Ontario Nurses Association president Linda Haslam-Stroud yesterday. "It's appropriate that charges have been laid." The centre is charged for not developing and putting into effect workplace violence prevention procedures. CAMH is also charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act for failure to assess that Dutch doors – which divide in the middle – were a safety hazard for staff members and for not maintaining equipment. The ministry got involved with CAMH when the doors first led to critical injury on Nov. 12, 2007 at the Queen St. W. site. ...read the rest here Source (please note, some articles are only available for a limited time.) 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