12-05-2018, 09:10 PM
I didn't get a chance to respond this morning, but echo the general sentiment.
The response from the city's transit manager was colossally bad and insensitive.
He seems more irritated that the media found out than that workers were injured.
All accidents, by definition, are preventable. His job is not to "report these incidents to both provincial and federal labour investigators" - it is to prevent the incidents from happening in the first place.
The kind of attitude he demonstrated is exactly why more than 900 Canadians a year are still dying in work-related causes (that doesn't include workplaces not covered by worker's compensation like farms). That's 3 Canadians a day who don't come home from work.
The response from the city's transit manager was colossally bad and insensitive.
He seems more irritated that the media found out than that workers were injured.
All accidents, by definition, are preventable. His job is not to "report these incidents to both provincial and federal labour investigators" - it is to prevent the incidents from happening in the first place.
The kind of attitude he demonstrated is exactly why more than 900 Canadians a year are still dying in work-related causes (that doesn't include workplaces not covered by worker's compensation like farms). That's 3 Canadians a day who don't come home from work.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.