Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Two workers were killed in separate incidents a year apart. One worker was fatally injured after being struck by a tractor-trailer that was backing up; another worker was pinned against moving machinery.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)
A new report by City of Toronto Ombudsman, Fiona Crean, concludes that the city’s paramedic service needs to offer more assistance to its workers who suffer from psychological stress and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)
A supervisor with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg who was infected by one of the diseases that he was researching in 2012 had insufficient safety training at the time.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by R.M. Belanger Ltd., was killed when a bridge that was being jacked into place collapsed. The company failed to take the reasonable precaution of ensuring a safe procedure was used for jacking down a temporary modular bridge.