Province of Saskatchewan Gets Paid Job Leave
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Saskatchewan legislature has introduced and passed paid job leave for survivors of interpersonal and sexual violence on May 13, 2019.
Blog Post #1047 – Thomson Construction Fined $50,000 after Worker Suffers Critical Injuries
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker fell from the roof of a barn under construction to the ground, suffering critical injuries. Under Ontario’s health and safety laws the worker should have been protected from falling with a properly-used fall arrest system.
Blog Post #1045 – Toronto Plastics Company, Supervisor, Fined After Worker Suffers Permanent Injury
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
An employer and a supervisor pleaded guilty and were fined a total of $53,000 after a temporary worker was permanently injured on a forklift.
Blog Post #1044 – Safety, Mental Health are Key in British Columbia
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A whopping 94 % of working Canadians say workplace health, safety and mental well-being are important when choosing a job, but only 77 % of them think that decisions made in their workplaces consider employee health and safety all or some of the time, according to an Angus Reid poll commissioned by the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of B.C.