WHAT WE DO

Across all Canadian jurisdictions, employers are subject to rigorous occupational health and safety (OHS) and workers’ compensation legislation. To ensure compliance, avoid costly litigation and proactively manage workplace risks requires a legal team with strategic solutions, extensive OHS litigation experience and broad industry insight.

TRAINING, CONSULTING AND LEGAL SERVICES

With one of Canada’s foremost OHS and workers’ compensation law practices, Gowlings provides clients across all industries with comprehensive training, valuable consulting and exceptional legal solutions to manage the full range of national and provincial OHS legislative requirements.

Our highly experienced national team of OHS consultants and lawyers is led by Norm Keith, BA, LLB, CRSP. Norm combines more than 27 years of practice with invaluable experience gained from his successful defence of more than 1,000 OHS and related charges. Along with Norm, Gowlings’ OHS practice boasts the only two legal professionals with the Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation.

Our professionals frequently write on a wide variety of workplace safety issues and have published a number of authoritative texts including Canadian Health and Safety Law, Human Resources Guide to Preventing Workplace Violence, and Human Resources Guide to Preventing Workplace Violence (includes Bill 168). The team also regularly provides key legislative updates, insight into topical issues and recent case history through our OHS Law website.

SHARING OUR KNOWLEDGE

Throughout the year we provide courses and seminars for employers, senior executives, supervisors, and health and safety committee members, educating them on topics such as: their legal duties under OHS and workers’ compensation legislation; how to ensure compliance through due diligence; the significant penalties for noncompliance; and most recently how to comply with Bill 168 - Ontario's New Workplace Violence and Harassment Legislation.

For more information on seminars, courses, podcasts, recent articles and other services offered by the OHS Practice, please visit http://www.ohslaw.ca/.