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Norm Keith is a partner in Gowlings’ Toronto office and leader of the Firm's National Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Group. His practice specializes in corporate crime, occupational health and safety, environmental, workers' compensation and workplace risk management litigation, and workers’ compensation. He also advises on matters including privacy law, labour and employment law, and alternate dispute resolution.
Norm has extensive experience in drafting workplace risk management policies and programs, OHS management systems and employment contracts. He is counsel for employers involving human rights, labour arbitration, judicial reviews, Ontario Labour Relation Board hearings and fiduciary duty lawsuits.
Norm is an accomplished trial lawyer and recognized as a leader in his field. During his career, he has successfully defended more than 1,000 charges under the regulation and criminal statutes and regulations. He has also represented employers at administrative tribunals, environmental prosecutions and coroner inquests. Norm has assisted clients in a wide range of industries in advising on workplace risk management and emergency preparedness planning.
Norm received his Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation in 1998. He is the first practising lawyer in Canada to achieve the CRSP designation. He has authored a number of books including Corporate Crime and Accountability in Canada, Canadian Health and Safety Law, Workplace Health & Safety Crimes, Canadian Emergency Management and Response Manual, Human Resources Guide to Preventing Violence, and Alcohol and Drugs in the Canadian Workplace. Norm is a frequent speaker at national and international risk management, OHS and legal conferences and seminars. He has authored a number of leading texts, including Alcohol and Drugs in the Canadian Workplace, Canadian Health & Safety Law, Ontario Health & Safety Law, Creating an Effective Joint Health & Safety Committee, and Human Resources Guide to Preventing Workplace Violence and Workplace Health & Safety Crimes (Bill C-45) and Canadian Emergency Management and Response Manual. He is also the editor of the ASSE International Practice Specialty newsletter, World Focus.
Norm has also authored/co-authored the following published books:
- Human Resources Guide to Preventing Workplace Violence – Canada Law Book, Co-Authored with Goldie Bassi (2010) (second edition)
- Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation Compliance in Alberta – Canada Law Book, Co-Authored with Adam Neave (2007)
- Canadian Emergency Management and Response Manual: A Guide to the Law and Practice – Thomson Carswell (Toronto) (February 2007)
- Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety Compliance in Ontario Third Edition, A – Canada Law Book, Co-Authored with Elizabeth Rankin (2006)
- Workplace Health & Safety Crimes – LexisNexis (March 2004)
- Canadian Health and Safety Law: A Comprehensive Guide to the Statutes, Policies and Case Law – Canada Law Book (1997 and updated annually)
- Human Resources Guide to Preventing Workplace Violence – Canada Law Book (1999)
- Ontario Health and Safety Law: A Complete Guide to the Law and Procedures – Canada Law Book (1989 and updated annually)
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