Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Two workers were killed and three more injured in separate incidents in the Montreal area in early April.
Blog Post#540 – Collapsed Roof Kills Two
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Grief seized a small Ontario town where two volunteer firefighters died in the line of duty on March 17, 2011, while battling a blaze downtown.
Blog Post #535 – Algoma Tubes Inc. Fined $70,000 after Two Workers Were Injured
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Algoma Tubes Inc., a manufacturer of steel pipe products based in Whitehorse, Yukon, has been fined $70,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after two workers were injured.
Blog Post #532 – Dismissal Not the Result of Raising Safety Concerns
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
After years of legal wrangling, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled in April, 2011, that the captain of a ferry that sank five years earlier was not terminated because he raised safety concerns.