Posts Categorized As: Manitoba health and safety

Blog Post #1461 – Six Manitoba Companies Fined

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Oct. 2016)

The Workplace Safety and Health branch (WSH) of Manitoba Growth, Enterprise and Trade ministry announced August 16, 2016, that it had issued fines totalling more than $111,000 to the following six employers from March to mid-July for contravening Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Act.

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Blog Post #1401 – Heat-Stress Warning Released in Manitoba

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)

Manitoba’s public agency for preventing workplace injury and illness is warning workers of the risks of extreme heat, both outdoors and indoors without air conditioning. Safe Work Manitoba (SWM) issued a statement on July 20, 2016, suggesting measures to keep workers safe and comfortable.

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Blog Post #1340 – Infected Worker Lacks Training

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)

A supervisor with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg who was infected by one of the diseases that he was researching in 2012 had insufficient safety training at the time.