­Corporate Driver Training

POWELL SKILLDRIVING...

brings to customers a range of driver training programs with group rates for corporate customers. The training methodology provides progressive levels of training, within the actual course; each course builds onto the next level. Powell SkillDriving also presents group safety seminars, and can contribute assistance with corporate policy development.

Many Powell corporate driver training customers have an enviable safety record. Ontario Power Generation leads that group, having had no major crashes in over 30 years of transporting hazardous goods. That's without special escorts, and reflects the OPG 'day in, day out' commitment to maintaining safe driving standards.

EXCELLENT! LifeScan Canada, one of the J&J group of companies, has been crash free in the first three quarters of 2006. WOW great job LifeScan!

Dow Chemical, another long time client of Powell SkillDriving, has a well deserved reputation for road safety; that's because safety have become entrenched in Dow corporate culture.

Other customers, such as the George Weston Group, Hydro One, have stepped up to the plate with new fleet driving policies and sensitive employee integration into their new driving safety programs.

Safety isn't one thing, its everything. All of us at Powell SkillDriving are dedicated to making your training experience an enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

Stronger Laws Now Affect C­riminal Liability of Organizations

Bill C-45, an act to amend the Criminal Code, came into force March 31, 2004. Bill-C45 amended the criminal code to clearly define who is responsible for the safety of persons in the workplace and to allow for prosecution under charges of “criminal negligence” when those responsibilities are recklessly or willfully disregarded.

The amendment states that:
“ Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task. “

This clearly indicates that organizations can and will be held responsible for the actions of all of their employees, and for their lack of action. This includes directors, executive officers, operations managers, plant managers, production managers, and so on. These are the people with authority to make decisions about day-to-day operations.

Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an individual found guilty of a contravention may be fined up to a maximum of $25,000 and / or sentenced to up to one year in jail, per offense. The fine for a corporation can be up to $500,000. Fines under the criminal code in an indictable offense have no predetermined limit. The maximum sentence for an individual convicted of “criminal negligence causing death” is life imprisonment.