Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was fatally injured while performing duties at a construction site in Welland, ON.
Blog Post #1384 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Stratford Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by FIO Automotive Canada Corporation (FIO), suffered a critical injury at the workplace when a 1,500-pund feed bar was knocked out of its support cradle and struck the worker who was operating the crane. FIO contravened a section of the ‘Industrial Regulations’ by failing to ensure that a feed bar that may tip or fall and endanger any worker was secured against tipping or falling.
Blog Post #1378 – Workplace Fatality Results in $135,000 Fine for Belleville Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’. A worker working at a home operated by Pathways to Independence was fatally injured as a result of an incident of workplace violence.
Blog Post #1376 – Union Calls for Abuse Law
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.