Report from City News in Montreal (Posted June 14, 2024)
The Quebec government will provide $2.4 million over four years to the Juripop Legal Clinic, to help employees who have suffered psychological harassment or sexual violence at work.
Blog Post #1636 – Police Search for Answers at ‘Vast’ Quebec Explosion Site – Part 2
Report from Google report July 07, 2025 A fatal explosion occurred at a Quebec fuel distributor, Propane Lafortune, in St-Roch-de-l’Achigan on January 12, killing three workers. The explosion, which involved a gasoline vapor ignition during welding repair work on a tanker truck, also destroyed the building. Details of the incident: Cause: A welder was repairing cracks … Continue Reading
Blog Post #1635 – Police Search for Answers at ‘Vast’ Quebec Explosion Site
Report from the OHS Canada magazine (Winter 2023)
The investigation into the causes of a fatal blast at a propane company north of Montreal could be long and complex, police said, after three bodies were found at the site.
Blog Post #1624 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Quebec Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’
A worker, employed by Andritz Hydro Canada, of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a company that supplies hydro turbines and generators in Canada, was critically injured after being struck by a falling sole plate. By not ensuring the sole plate was adequately braced, Andritz Hydro Canada failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.