When provincial Labour Minister Shirley Bond apologized recently after Crown counsel rejected charges in the deadly 2012 Lakeland Mills sawmill explosion, she promised improvements in safety enforcement and better execution of complex investigations.
Bond appointed a special administrator, former senior B.C. bureaucrat Gord Macatee, who is tasked with examining WorkSafeBC’s structure to see if enforcement should be separated from prevention as is done in many provinces in Canada. Macatee must deliver a plan by July 1.
Although labour and corporate views often differ, on this they agree: Rewriting WorkSafeBC’s model would be a mistake.
Gord Hoekstra – Vancouver Sun – May 29, 2014
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