Posts Categorized As: Canadian Health and Safety

Blog Post #899 – New Coal Mine Gets Order in Nova Scotia

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Nova Scotia’s Department of Labour and Advanced Education issued 10 safety orders and 29 warnings to the Donkin underground coal mine, which opened in February, 2017, even though none of the Cape Breton Island mine’s violations have put workers’ lives at risk. The orders and warnings stemmed from six Department inspections between February 27th and June 15th of that year, according to a CBC News report from August 04, 2017.

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Blog Post #894 – Cleaning Crew Affected by Carbon Monoxide, Employer Fined $75,000

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Ground Maintenance Cleaning Contractors Inc. (GMCC Inc.), a property maintenance business, pleaded guilty and was fined $75,000 for failing to protect the health and safety of a crew of workers from exposure to carbon monoxide gas in a parking garage. One of the workers collapsed on site and later died.

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