The firm handed the job to a trained supervisor. It didn't hand off the liability
A construction employer tried to shift the blame for a workplace safety penalty onto a trained supervisor it had put in charge and later fired. A British Columbia tribunal disagreed, ruling that a supervisor's failure on site is the company's failure too.
In a decision dated June 11, 2026, a three-member Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal panel of Anand Banerjee, Scott Ferguson, and Jennifer Perry upheld a $10,000 administrative penalty against a siding contractor. Three of its workers had been doing exterior work about 24 feet above the ground with no fall protection when a WorkSafeBC officer arrived.
On October 18, 2024, a Board occupational safety officer inspected the contractor's worksite and found three workers installing exterior siding on a three-story wood frame residential building from a ladder jack scaffold roughly 24 feet up, none of them using fall protection. The officer noted that fall protection equipment had been made available on site, and that the workers and their supervisor were aware the law required it at that height.
It was not the first time. The employer had been cited under the same fall protection section twice in 2022, drawing penalties of $2,500 and $5,000, and had been cited for a similar violation back in 2019. After the October inspection, the Board imposed a $10,000 penalty in December 2024, and a review officer...
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