B.C. company fined $157K for 'high-risk' school asbestos removal

📆 2023/07/05 10:30:00
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In a summary of its findings, WorkSafeBC said the firm “failed to take the necessary precautions to protect workers.”

A fire and flood restoration company has been fined more than $157,000 for several “high-risk violations” when it removed asbestos-laden insulation from a school in Langley, B.C.

According to the inspection report, school staff and teachers were “in and out of the drama room” while the restoration work was in progress, and the adjacent hallway, storage room and cafeteria may have been affected. Analysis of 90 samples taken throughout the school showed “no safety concerns,” according to Abshire.

But a WorkSafeBC inspection of the site determined the firm did not adequately instruct and train its workers in the removal of asbestos-containing materials. The company did not use appropriate safe working procedures, and workers failed to wear respiratory gear to protect them from the carcinogenic material, found inspectors for B.C.'s Workers' Compensation Board.

The UBC-run CAREX Canada estimates roughly 235,000 Canadians are exposed to asbestos in the workplace. Based on past exposures, that leads to about 1,900 lung cancers and 430 mesotheliomas each year.

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