Posts Tagged As: Canada

Blog Post #1733 – Declaration Aims for Safer, Healthier Work Around the World

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Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Fall 2025)

A landmark founding declaration to advance safer, healthier, more sustainable workplaces worldwide has been signed as part of Expo 2025 in Osaka-Kansai, Japan.

The declaration launched the World Assembly of Occupational Safety, Health, and Well-being Professionals and Stakeholders, a network that will collaborate on commitments promoting safety and well-being, driving global collaboration, empowering future leaders, and creating a roadmap of concrete actions between now and 2030.

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Blog Post #1727 – Workplace Injury Results in $90,000 Fine for Hamilton-based Company

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by National Steel Car Limited of Hamilton, Ontario, a railcar manufacturing company, was critically injured operating machinery that was not equipped with a guard or other device that prevents access to a pinch point, a violation of section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 (Regulation for Industrial Establishments), contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1726 – Calgary Machine Shop Ordered to pay $420,000 fine in Workplace Lathe Death

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Report from the Western Standard News Service

A Calgary machining company’s conviction and $420,000 fine in connection to a workplace fatality has been upheld by the courts.

Inland Machining Ltd. was charged with 33 counts under Alberta’s occupational health and safety (OHS) laws following an incident on August 16, 2019, in which a worker was fatally injured while operating a manual lathe and became entangled with a moving part.

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