Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
Quebec’s workplace safety board says a lack of training and equipment contributed to the deaths of two firefighters during a flood northeast of Quebec City in May 2023.
Blog Post #1557 – Asbestos Find Closes School
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)
A primary school was evacuated and closed temporarily following the discovery of asbestos in the building on November 10, 2016.
Blog Post #1352 – Employee Perishes in Fall
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Nov. 2015)
A construction employee was killed in a fall at a worksite in Montréal, when the platform in which he was standing suddenly overturned. The incident occurred on September 15, 2015 at the Champlain Bridge’s ice-control structure over the St. Lawrence River, according to the provincial police force, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ)
Blog Post #1222 – Railway Protests Decision
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine Sept. 2014)
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) says it will be asking the Superior Court of Quebec to stay a recent arbitration decision, which ruled that a locomotive engineer who used cocaine had to be reinstated.