Excerpt from the OHS Canada magazine
A slew of occupational health and safety charges have been laid against mine operator Vale Limited in connection with a double fatality during the 2011 calendar year.
Blog Post #512 – Rodco Enterprises Construction Company and Supervisor Fined $52,500 after Worker Injured
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
755055 Ontario Ltd., operating as Rodco Enterprises, a Haliburton construction company, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. A supervisor from the company was fined $2,500 in relation to the same incident.
Blog Post#511 Fatalities, Lost -Time Rate Down In Nova Scotia
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Nova Scotia is touting improvements on the oh&s front that helped reduce work-related fatalities to 21 last year in 2010 and to cut the lost-time injury rate by 16.5 per cent since 2008.
Blog Post #505 – Mill Operations Suspended in Saskatchewan
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine A contract worker who was trapped inside a Saskatchewan gold mill for about 10 hours later returned to the site to help with the investigation. Mill Operations Suspended in Saskatchewan until the root cause was found. At about 1:30 pm on January 18, 2011, Rocky Arsenault was working in … Continue Reading