Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
Article by Jeff Cottrill, Editor
Less than two months after a reported at Canada’s largest newspaper took her own life, the publication has agreed to an external review of its workplace culture, but the union representing its journalists is pushing for a broader investigation into how that culture may have contributed to tragedy.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Countrywide Recycling Inc. of Binbrook, ON, a company that provides waste management and recovery services. was fatally injured while performing duties at a recycling facility in Hamilton, ON.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by FIO Automotive Canada Corporation (FIO), suffered a critical injury at the workplace when a 1,500-pund feed bar was knocked out of its support cradle and struck the worker who was operating the crane. FIO contravened a section of the ‘Industrial Regulations’ by failing to ensure that a feed bar that may tip or fall and endanger any worker was secured against tipping or falling.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2016)
An automotive manufacturing company was sentenced to pay a fine of $175,000 on May 25, 2016 over a workplace accident that led to the death of an employee.