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 #342 – Settlement for Harassed, Intimidated Workers in Nova Scotia
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A group of employees at a Nova Scotia tissue bank have been awarded $10,000 after they were found to have been intimidated and harassed on the job.
Blog Post #295 – Final Descent – “The Sullivan Mine Disaster”
Good intention, an unforeseen response, a preventable accident. Four lives were lost when, one by one, the individuals entered a sump at an inactive mine in British Columbia. A reclamation project, it seems, transformed a once-safe work area into a deadly zone. Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine By: Jean Lian It all seems so … Continue Reading
Blog Post #294 – Town Fined in Deadly Trench Collapse
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
The Town of New Glasgow in Nova Scotia must pay $25,000 and various other penalties following a trench collapse two years ago that claimed the life of a worker.