Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of Prince Edward Island is approved, in principle, a new policy on medical cannabis as a treatment option for work-related injuries or diseases and is seeking feedback on the draft policy by September 2, 2018.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
the conclusion of a review of past cancer claims against former General Electric (GE) workers in Peterborough, Ontario so the acceptance of 71 claims that had been previously denied. The previous decision was upheld in a further 105 claims for others being abandoned.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Steel producer ArcelorMittal Dofasco Inc. was fined $60,000 after a worker was overcome by gas fumes and lost consciousness at the company’s Burlington Street East plant.
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.