Dan 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).
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Aecon Construction Ontario East Ltd of Carp, Ontario, a company in the business of asphalt paving and construction, received critical injuries after contact with a reversing bulldozer. The operator of the bulldozer should have had the assistance of a signaller watching for people who may have been in the path of the bulldozer.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Two workers, employed at the Southlake Regional Centre, were injured as a result of workplace violence exercised by a patient.