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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
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.
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Any links to the data involved? A good chunk of my immediate family that are involved in farming are all family operations, so most of what I see is from that perspective.