Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2014)
The union representing more than 7000 Air Canada flight attendants is challenging a decision from the federal government to exempt the airline from maintaining the current ratio of one flight attendant for every 40 passenger seats.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by GF Rebar Inc. of London, Ontario, a company that designs, fabricates and installs concrete reinforcing steel (rebar) and wire mesh for construction projects, was struck and injured by material that fell off a trailer during the loading process (2018); another worker suffered a permanent injury while processing material in a machine (2019).
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2014) Ontario’s Ministry of Labour has laid 22 Occupational Health & Safety charges against two companies and three individuals, following a dramatic helicopter rescue late last year. (2013) On December 17, 2013, the crane operator was working at a construction project in Kingston, Ontario when he suffered burns … Continue Reading
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2014 by Jeff Cottrill)
The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is charging that a contractor has been hiring temporary foreign workers with insufficient training to work on a construction site for oil corporation Husky Energy Inc., Via a fast-track stream of the Temporary Worker Program (TFWP).