Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
In what is becoming an all-too-common occurrence in the summer months, an outdoor concert stage in Ontario has collapsed, leaving a mess of tangled steel, one worker dead and a lot of questions for the province’s safety regulator to sift through.’
Westray won an award as Canada’s safest mine barely a month before it sent 26 men to their deaths. Six years later, with the release of the report of the Westray Inquiry, a baffling and disturbing picture emerges that should make every health and safety professional think long and hard about how safety systems fail.
Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By: Dean Jobb
Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
A British Columbia reforestation company has been ordered to pay more than $232,000 after the province’s labour ministry discovered violations ranging from unpaid wages to unauthorized deductions.
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.”