High-risk workplaces should require safety supervisors dedicated to on-site safety compliance. That recommendation was made by the jury at a coroner's.
The jury at a coroner s inquest looking into a 2017 workplace death in New Brunswick has made a recommendation to improve safety for people working at construction sites.
Simon Jones said he had known from WorkSafeNB investigators that his brother-in-law had been wearing his safety harness, but was not anchored in, when he fell from the fourth floor of the Hilton Garden Inn while it was under construction on Jan. 30, 2017.
Steven Lutes was wearing a body harness the day he fell to his death at the Hilton Garden Inn construction site in Fredericton five years ago, but it hadn’t been secured to an anchor point.
A construction worker who described himself as a right-hand man to the late Steven Lutes, says his supervisor’s death could have easily been prevented if Lutes had a spotter.