Report Created by the CSA Group for the Fall 2025 OH&S Canada magazine
Mental health challenges among Canadian workers are on the rise, with serious implications for employers, employees, and the broader economy. Olga Morawczynski, co-founder and CEO of Heal-3, and CSA public policy fellow who authored the report Navigating the Mental Health Crisis in Canada: The Critical Role of Employers, offers her perspective on what is driving these trends and how organizations can take action.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by DMC Mining Services Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, an underground mining company, was injured while removing an extra power cable from the wall of a mine shaft. The company failed, as an employer, to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker, contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Orbit Garant Drilling Services Inc. of Val-d’Or, Quebec, a company providing drilling services to the mining sector, was injured while trying to free a water hose that was caught on a drill rod. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 185(2) of Ontario Regulation 854/90 – ‘Mines and Mining Plants’ were carried out, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Genaire Ltd. of Niagara-on-the-lake, was injured while attempting to reopen a container of hazardous paint that had been improperly stored. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 7(1)(c) of Ontario Regulation 860 were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.