A Victoria roofing company has been fined just over $60,000 by WorkSafeBC for failing to follow the rules for safety harnesses at a job site in Sooke.
WorkSafe said it conducted an inspection while Proline Roofing Ltd./Proline Gutters was reroofing a house and found that three workers — one of them a supervisor — were near the leading edge of the roof wearing fall-protection harnesses without lifelines, which connect the harness to an anchorage point.
That exposed the workers to the risk of a fall of as much as 4.6 metres, WorkSafe said.
“The firm failed to ensure fall protection was used, and failed to provide its workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety,” WorkSafe said.
“These were both repeated and high-risk violations.”
