WorkSafeBC fines Interior Health nearly $275K after workers exposed

British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority has been fined astir $275,000 aft workers were exposed to an chartless substance astatine a infirmary successful Penticton.

A announcement posted online by WorkSafeBC, the province’s idiosyncratic extortion agency, says the $274,073 good imposed successful August was the effect of an incidental successful which 2 workers were sickened aft a noxious odour was detected successful a patient’s room.

It says the employees became sick aft entering the country successful effect to a work request, portion 8 different workers were besides treated for exposure.

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The announcement does not accidental what the substance was, but it says WorkSafeBC determined the employer’s process for responding to illicit substances had not been adequately communicated to workers.

It says the workers had not received grooming connected the process to follow, and recommended respiratory extortion had not been communicated.

The announcement says the wellness authorization has repeatedly failed to instrumentality written procedures to destruct oregon minimize the hazard of idiosyncratic vulnerability to chemic agents that could origin adverse wellness effects.