Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) kick started its annual workplace-safety campaign targeting of people entering the workforce in summer.
Blog Post #931 – Vale Canada Limited Fined $1 Million in Death of One Worker, Critical Injury to Another
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Vale Canada Limited pleaded guilty and has been fined $1,000,000 after one worker died and another was critically injured while attempting to clear a jam in a rock-crushing machine at a plant near Sudbury.
Blog Post #929 – Worker’s Critical Injury Results in $54,500 Fine for Food Processor
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Southcoast IQF Inc., a company that operates a vegetable processing, freezing and packaging facility in southwestern Ontario, pleaded guilty and was fined $54,500 after a worker received a critical injury from the cutting blades of a dicer.
Blog Post #928 – ACT Under Review in British Columbia
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
British Columbia is revisiting the Worker’s Compensation Act (WCA) to make it easier to understand.