Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine July 2016)
A postal carrier was hospitalized on July 11, 2016, after two pit bull terriers attacked him while he was on his mail route in Laval, Quebec.
Blog Post #1405 – City of Ottawa Lobbies for Enforcement
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
The Ottawa City Council has voted unanimously to petition the Ontario Labour Minister and Attorney General to push for criminal investigations and convictions regarding occupational health fatalities and serious workplace injuries, in accordance with 2004 amendments to the Canadian Criminal Code of Canada, known as the Westray Law.
Blog Post #1404 – Company Fined $100,000 After Workplace Injury at London Poultry Plant
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
An employee of Cargill Limited, an international company that provides food, agriculture and risk management products and services, dropped a heavy machine from a forklift onto a worker, injuring the worker.
Blog Post #1402 – Letter Voices Nuclear-Safety Concerns
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July, 2016)
An anonymous letter alleging safety concerns in Canada’s nuclear-energy sector has sparked an investigation by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The letter charges that the Commission and other authorities cannot make informed licensing decisions due to withheld information.