Employer unwilling to comply with Ministry of Labour orders

We had an inspection from the ministry of labour a while ago at my workplace and there’s a ton of code violations and safety hazards taking place at the facility. Over half the workspace has no overhead lighting, there’s improper storage of chemicals, infestations, no ventilation when there is a lot of fumes, list goes on. Every inch in that place has something wrong with it, I genuinely thought they were gonna shut the place down on the spot.

The inspector spoke to the owner and senior manager/ owner’s brother and gave orders to comply but they’ve been purposefully brushing it off because they think a fine and hush money in case of injury will be cheaper than fixing everything.

I am pretty sure we are past the deadlines on the orders given, nothing has been done, and I’m worried as to what will happen if they come do another inspection. They did say they would be coming back end of July. While I genuinely do think this place should not be operating in any way, I also do not want to be out of a job. I’m applying to other work but I’m having trouble landing anything.

Does anyone have any insight as to what usually happens in a case like this? Will they just get a fine? Anything in particular my coworkers and I should be doing? We’re dealing with extra bullshit on top of the hazardous conditions because they suspect it was one of us who reported them, but no one is willing to actually walk out because we’ve all got bills, families to support, etc.