The city of Toronto has been given 39 orders to correct unsafe working conditions in the second half of 2007. The orders were issued by the Ministry of Labour for unsafe excavations, guardrails, stepladders, and scaffolding. A report says that the city posted 1,924 lost-time injuries last year, up 7.7 percent in one year. In certain sectors of government work injuries have been decreasing like garbage collection, road maintenance, and fire protection but this is being overshadowed by the overall bad numbers. In 2007, the city paid workers $30.9 million in compensation up from the $29.8 million in 2006.
This is not acceptable that the City of Toronto is not a safe working environment. As Mayor David Miller has said, it is not very difficult either to provide these safe conditions, it can be as simple as having ramps, guard rails, proper scaffolding, etc. If there are poor contractors that the city is useing, they should not be rehired. Currently, there are unsafe working conditions in the City of Toronto and this ends up costing tax payers millions, something must be done in this situation and it can be very small changes.
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Do the city's contractors not have full insurance? They should. The city should be covered for any loss incurred by a contractor.
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