Posts Categorized As: Alberta Safety

Blog Post #1333 – Outdated Data Used in Temporary Foreign Worker Program

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)

Original report by Jean Lian, Editor of the magazine)

The wage data used by Alberta government officials to determine which Temporary Foreign Worker Program to approve are deeply flawed, according to documents uncovered by the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL).

Blog Post #1315 – Trench Collapse Kills Worker

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2015)

A 55-year-old male construction worker in Edmonton has died after a sewer trench in which he was digging collapsed, burying him under a few meters of clay and dirt.