Kensington Village faces workplace safety charges after COVID-19 outbreak last year left eight residents and one staff member dead
The Ontario government has taken the unprecedented step of charging a nursing home with workplace safety violations, after a COVID-19 outbreak last year left eight residents and one staff member dead.
The government will spend $20-million to hire almost 200 additional long-term care inspectors by next fall, as part of a plan to reinstate an oversight regime largely dismantled by Premier Doug Ford in 2018. The province currently has 156 inspectors.laid three charges on Sept. 2 against Kensington Village in London, Ont., under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Ms. Klisht said in her e-mail that the charges are not related to any employee’s death nor the availability of PPE for staff and residents. “Any suggestion otherwise is misleading and a disservice to our staff and families,” she said, referring additional questions to the company’s lawyer. Shortly after the Progressive Conservatives entered office in 2018, the ministry all but eliminated wide-ranging inspections, focusing instead on responding to critical incidents and complaints.
Asked about the charges at Kensington Village, Mr. Phillips said he cannot comment on a matter before the courts but added that he would like to see inspectors in his ministry work more collaboratively with those in the Labour Ministry.
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