OHS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liquor Control Board Of Ontario, Times New Roman, East Asian Gothic Typeface

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Occupational Health
• Course: OHS 208
• Professor: Busuyi Aroso

Document Summary

Two big themes in the course = prevention and compensation. With the industrial revolution the kinds of workplace injuries changed and this created the problem of. Huge number of workers killed and crippled in steel mills and mines, and on construction (big city problem) This was the social problem at the onset of the 20th century. The ontario govt and the meredith royal commission. Federal employees working in ontario covered by wsib. Many, many changes over the decades of the past century. During the 1970"s and 1980"s began to fund prevention as well as many new entitlements. By late 1990"s going bankrupt (debt of $ 13b) In 1997 all of prevention moved under the wsib. 2010 moved it all back to the ministry of labour with a new provincial structure. The dean report early in 2009, the ministry of. Labour convened a multi-sector review panel, headed by university of toronto professor, tony.