dead on the job and no one noticed

When did a store manager become the person in charge of the safety of specialized contractors who are not store employees?

I agree with you, back of my mind though was the sorrow for the guy evidently had no one caring about him, or so it seemed.

Maybe in Cannuckistan. He didn't fall off the roof. He dropped dead of a heart attack. The customer had no liability whatsoever.

As much as the death may sadden us, there are things to learn from this.

I didn't realize who we were talking about. I knew him from AHR, from way back (but haven't been active there for several years).

The USA is a lot more litigious than Canada. That said, in THIS case there would not likely be any fallout -but there are many other similar situations where liability could be assessed.- even in the USA.

Can't speak for Walgreens but my two partners and I did considerable maintenance and repairs for Eckerds [now CVS] in the late 90s and beyond. All the store managers we ever dealt with started as pharmacists.

Dave in SoTex

If you had gone up on the roof of an Eckerds (now CVS) and died while you were up there, would you have been left there for a couple of days or were procedures in place to keep track of maintenance workers?

Since I did commercial and industrial HVAC, few retail stores ever cared about checking, if any. There was never any routine for checking, and unless you killed an A/C unit to service and it got hot in the Pharmacy, they would care less, or the managers office. :)