COVID-19 operational plans – or no plan at all, nearly a year after they were required to create one.Tim Petersen, vice-president of prevention at WorkSafeNB, says the government agency’s officers have issued about 900 compliance orders and 80 stop-work orders since March 2020.“Those are instances where the workplaces haven’t had any plan or any real idea what they need to put in place, and we’ve identified that has put people at significant risk in that moment,” Petersen said in an interview Tuesday, about stop-work orders.Most of the stop-work orders have been issued since the start of 2021, he added.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia’s pandemic fortunes have diverged in 2021 Petersen said his officers help businesses create COVID-19 plans.