Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was killed, on December 15, 2016, by a cheese-cutter machine at the Saputo’s cheese production facility at 7 Riverside Drive, Trenton, Ontario. The device should have had a guard to prevent access to the cutter’s pinch point.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A company In Newfoundland these charges on June 18, 2019 over an incident that saw the partial amputation of a worker’s foot.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
New OH&S regulations, including provisions to address occupational harassment and worker-on-worker violence and strengthen violence prevention, will come into force on January 1, 2020.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
firefighters in Newfoundland and Labrador are looking forward to legislative changes that will allow them to claim workers’ compensation for cancer in the future, after a report by the province’s Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission (WHSCC) recommends that cancer be considered a workplace hazard for career firefighters.