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Blog Post #1377 – Workplace Fatality Results in $60,000 Fine for Braeside Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker performing work for ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. suffered a fatality resulting from the use of a bucket truck. ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. failed, as a constructor, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by O. Reg. 213/91, made under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, were carried out at the project.

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Blog Post #1376 – Union Calls for Abuse Law

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2016)

Following Manitoba’s recent adoption of legislation allowing paid and unpaid time off work with guaranteed job security for victims of domestic abuse, the New Brunswick Union (NBU) – the association for the province’s civil servants and government employees – is lobbying for the province to enact a similar law.

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