Lower Mainland firms fined nearly $30K in traffic control violations
Recently, WorkSafeBC slapped a couple of Lower Mainland firms with nearly $30,000 in fines for traffic control violations.
One of them is a construction firm that assigned an untrained person to direct traffic, and the other is a traffic control company, which put its traffic control workers at risk.
WorkSafeBC fined Qual Development Ltd. nearly $5,000 on Dec. 16, 2025, for repeated traffic control violations while working on the construction of an apartment building in North Vancouver.
In a penalty summary posted online, WorkSafeBC said it inspected the worksite and noticed a worker directing traffic in an active traffic lane. They discovered this person was not trained to do so.
“WorkSafeBC determined that the worker was not a trained traffic control person (TCP), no traffic risk assessment had been completed, and no traffic control plan was in place,” reads WorkSafeBC’s penalty summary on the incident.
The provincial agency further found that the company hadn’t done a traffic risk assessment, put in place a traffic control plan, or worn high-visibility clothes while directing traffic.
“The firm also failed to ensure workers were not exposed to traffic until a risk assessment had been completed by a qualified person, and failed to provide its workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety.”
Traffic control company fined over $22,000 for traffic control violations
While workers at MP Traffic Control Ltd.’s Abbotsford site were trained in traffic control, WorkSafeBC says they were put at risk and fined the company over $22,000 on Dec. 4, 2025.
When inspecting the site, WorkSafeBC saw two traffic control workers in active lanes, close to nearby passing traffic.
They were positioned “in an intersection open to the travelled portion of a roadway, a high-risk violation,” according to WorkSafeBC’s penalty summary on the incident.
MP Traffic Control Ltd. also didn’t isolate the work zone by using detours, alternative routes, barriers, or other measures, which was a failure to “eliminate the risk of worker exposure to traffic in a work zone.”