Employers Should Brace Themselves For More Workplace Inspections

The Ontario Minister of Labour has announced that it will be increasing workplace inspections to ensure employers are operating safely as part of its Stay Safe All Day campaign to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

What sectors will be most affected?

The campaign is said to focus on workplaces in the following sectors:

• Manufacturing;

• Warehousing;

• Distribution centres;

• Food processing;

• Publicly accessible workplaces deemed essential, such as grocery stores; and

• Workplaces with reported COVID-19 outbreaks.

The inspections themselves will focus on high transmission areas (e.g. lunch/break rooms).

Inspections to begin Saturday with Big Box Stores