Bill 30 Working for Workers Seven Act 2025 passed First Reading and was ordered for Second Reading on May 28th. If passed, it will:

• Provide health and safety inspectors with the new authority to impose administrative monetary penalties for contraventions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. This new authority has been interpreted to be the mid-range in a continuum of penalties between tickets and summonses and court ordered fines

• provide that health and safety management systems accredited under the Occupational Health and Safety Act must be treated as equivalents. This provision addresses the controversial issue of public buyers that require CoR certification exclusively in their procurements (and don’t recognize ISO45001) for construction services. (Some health and safety experts assert that there are two types of ISO certified companies, those that are audited by accredited auditors and those that are audited by non-accredited auditors that do not operate under the oversight of an official ISO governing body.)

• Allow the WSIB to develop a program for the reimbursement of the cost of purchasing AEDs to contractors. Once the WSIB’s reimbursement program is in place, it’s anticipated that the government will introduce a new construction regulation requiring all construction projects that are expected to have a duration of 3 months or longer and have 20 or more workers onsite, to have an AED onsite

• prohibit an employer (but not an employee) from making a false or misleading statement or representation to the WSIB in connection with any person’s claim for benefits under the WSIB’s insurance plan.

• provides that persons convicted of two or more counts of the same offence in the same legal proceeding are liable to a maximum penalty of $750,000 for each conviction. A list of aggravating factors to be considered in determining a penalty is also added.

• Allows the WSIB in certain circumstances to impose administrative monetary penalties on employers