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Originally Posted by Kerplunk
Who is gonna pay for all the extra oversight, since in theory every acre of farm land must now be inspected for issues? Why should farms with insurance be legislated to get more insurance? Why are so many issues put under the umbrella of "to be figured out later"? How are farms without employees (i.e. family farms" affected?
I'm not against extra farm safety, but I can't seem to find good answers to these questions, and based on your response you don't have a clue either.
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Actually I spent about an hour chatting with OHSA about this just this afternoon.
They expanded the town hall slate from 3 to 9 because of the irresponsible backlash associated with the issue, to help them figure those "out later" things, even though they've been canvassing for feedback since it was drafted in 2014.
They have made all OHSA inspectors officers since the bills passing in 2014, and have hired more officials to coordinate the farm enforcement effort.
The fraction of company scale (50+ employee) farms far outnumbers "family" farms in TYOOL 2015, despite what this weird Norman Rockwell-esque view of farming in rural Alberta is viewed as being.
A business should not be free from safety investigation just because of some bizarre entitlement system. The only time farm injuries ever merit investigation is if the RCMP believe malicious intent is involved, which as one would imagine, is quite rare, unlike literally
every single other business operating in the province which falls under OHSA.