Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
After years of legal wrangling, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled in April, 2011, that the captain of a ferry that sank five years earlier was not terminated because he raised safety concerns.
Blog Post #531 – Setting Sites on Eye Safety
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The BC ‘Construction Safety Alliance’ in New Westminster, British Columbia has teamed with several provincial and national partners to promote vision safety and eye safety among workers throughout the province.
Blog Post #482 – Workers Allege Mistreatment
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A British Columbia work camp was shut down amid allegations of unsafe work conditions and employment standards violations.
On July 21, 2010, a group of workers publicly alleged that they had been mistreated by their employer, Khaira Enterprises Ltd., while working at the company’s silviculture camp near Golden, British Columbia, says a spokesperson for the Ministry of Labour in Victoria. “The conditions they described include a lack of proper sanitation and clean drinking water, inadequate food and shelter and unpaid wages,” the spokesperson says.
Blog Post #481 – Charges in Farming Deaths
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Twenty-nine charges have been laid against two companies and four individuals after three workers were killed at a British Columbia mushroom farm in 2008.