Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2022)
Specially trained and better equipped security staff now working at Manitoba’s largest hospital – The Sciences Centre – in a bid to reduce violence against health-care workers. More institutional safety officers, armed with pepper gel and greater powers than regular security guards, are to be posted later in other health-care settings.
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2017)
The rural municipality of Ritchot, Manitoba has been thrown political disarray, following the resignation of its mayor and two councillors, who cited a hostile environment as the reason for their departure.
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.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Sept. 2015)
The Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) and Safe Work Manitoba (SWM) have jointly launched a program to enhance health and safety of workers in the trucking industry.