Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of Prince Edward Island is raising safety awareness around Power Take Off (PTO) drive equipment during the Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, which ran from March 10, to 16, 2019.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s Newsroom’
Tupling Farms Ltd., a Shelburne potato farm, was fined $90,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Scotlynn Investments Inc., the Norfolk County operator of Scotlynn Farms, a ginseng farm and processing plant, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The Alberta Federation of Labour is criticizing the provincial government for no longer reporting farm fatalities. The federation says the move is an example of how ”agricultural workers are being erased in Alberta.”