Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
During the work day of September 25, 2016, workers on a job site were observed not wearing fall protection (such as harnesses or hard hats) as required by Ontario Regulation 213/91, the Construction Projects Regulation.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker who was moving a bundle of steel using an overhead crane suffered permanent crushing injuries when an outer steel strut in the bundle moved inward. The accident took place at Frazier Industrial Company operating as Fracan, 163 North Murray Street, Trenton, Ontario, a steel fabrication facility. The date of the offense was March 08, 2016.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Consultations to repeal farm workplace legislation, or Bill 6, has begun as Alberta paves the way to introduce the Farm Freedom and Safety Act.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
On May 23, 2013, an accident occurred at 4819 8th Concession Road, Windsor, Ontario, now known as the South West Detention Centre (SWDC), a provincially-operated jail facility.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
An emerging health risk could impact the manufacturing industry as the growth of x-ray technologies continue without effective programs to control radiation risk.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker suffered critical injuries, on June 7, 2016, at IKO Industries Ltd., a manufacturer of roofing products, after material used to make asphalt roofing products poured out of the hopper of a machine that was believed to be empty.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Consultations to help develop British Columbia’s mandatory entry-level training for class I commercial driver’s licenses will begin this summer, as the province beefs up training to bolster trucking safety.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker received critical injuries while moving steel beams onto a flatbed trailer at Steelcon Fabrication Inc., 62 Progress Court, Brampton, a business of manufacturing and supplying structural steel beams and columns.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Job fatalities in Nova Scotia in 2018, according to statistics that WCB Nova Scotia and the Department of Labour and Advanced Education released on April 17, 2019.
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Workers for Delsan – A.I.M. Environmental Services Inc., on April 18, 2016, were directing pedestrian traffic while a wall on the project site was being demolished. While a worker was escorting pedestrians underneath an overhead protection, the wall under demolition collapsed, injuring one worker and a number of pedestrians.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada
New regulations to protect from the violence and harassment too effect in New Brunswick on April 1, 2019. Regulatory changes define harassment and violence as workplace hazards that include sexual violence and harassment, domestic violence and intimate-partner violence.
Original Report by: Buzz Hargrove
David Ellis, an 18-year-old student from Burlington, Ont., became entangled in a commercial dough mixer in a bakery. He died on Feb. 17, 1999. It was his second day on a job that was to last only three weeks.