Metrolinx Safety Standards

Mississauga, March 1, 2019 — Metrolinx Vice President of Safety and Security, George Bell, announced at the Ontario General Contractors Association Leadership Conference and COR™ Open House that Metrolinx is looking to become a leader in construction safety and is making some big changes in standards to get there.

Metrolinx has moved from reporting on employee injuries to reporting on every worker's injuries, everyone who is involved in the delivery of Metrolinx projects. Also worth noting, near miss or non-events will be investigated as if they were a fatality.

Metrolinx will be looking at bringing in some improved standards to their worksites and going above and beyond the Green Book Standard. Bell says the Green Book is the basics: “it’s the bottom standard. If I build a house in Ontario and I am complying with every element in the Ontario Building Code, I just built the worst house I can legally build. We don’t want that, we want the best house we can build.”

Metrolinx now requires contractors to be COR™ certified for all major construction contracts.

“If you’re not safe, we’re not going to ask you to work for us.”

Bell also said new fit for duty standards being implemented stipulate any worker found to be impaired on a Metrolinx site will not be allowed to work for Metrolinx again.

Metrolinx works hand in hand with Infrastructure Ontario, which has agreed to use the same standards as Metrolinx on large projects going forward.