Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A gas station attendant who was fatally injured in a recent gas-and-dash has Ontario’s Labour ministry considering whether or not to impose or prepay policy for stations to prevent similar incidents.
Blog Post #547 – Getting Strict With Violators
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Alberta is implementing stricter guidelines for a certificate of recognition(COR) system to ensure improved scrutiny of core holding COR-holding companies that experience a work-related deaths and serious injuries.
Blog Post #545 – Volunteer Firefighters Added To List
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Within days of announcing that for more cancers will be presumed work-related for full-time firefighters seeking compensation, Alberta proposed extending the same assumption to the 10,000 volunteer firefighters in the province.
Blog Post #542 – Hefty Fine to Aecon Construction in Deadly Blast
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Aecon Construction Group Inc. was fined $225,000 on March 7, 2011 for its failure to request that the owner of a propane service locate and mark it prior to excavation.