Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
British Columbia’s Occupational Health & Safety authority has expanded its toll-free phone service to connect workers and employers in the province to prevention officers more easily.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker working for R.J. Cyr Company Inc., was killed, on November 16, 2016, at their Maidstone facility while lifting conveyor frames with a crane and placing them on a support structure. The materials should have been clamped to the support structure before detaching the crane.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC) has laid Six charges against Tower Arctic Limited, under the Nunavut Safety Act, in response to an employee injury that occurred last year in the municipality of Pond Inlet, Nunavut.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
At the Detour Lake Gold mine, about 185 km northeast of Cochrane, Ontario, on August 24, 2014, A worker hauling rocks in a dump truck being operated in reverse was critically injured when the truck fell and flipped over on its roof. There was no berm (protective barrier) to support the truck and the road gave way beneath the truck.