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Ontario’s voluntary workplace safety recognition program has reached 100 employer recognitions since it launched in 2019, according to the province’s top prevention official. Dr. Joel Moody, Ontario’s Chief Prevention Officer… …
Musculoskeletal injuries remain the most common workplace injury in British Columbia, accounting for about 30 per cent of all time-loss claims filed with WorkSafeBC. Over the five-year period from 2020… …
A province-wide survey of nearly 3,000 Ontario Catholic teachers has found that workplace violence and harassment are widespread, worsening and inadequately managed — with reporting systems that fail to produce… …
A new report from contractor management firm ISN finds that serious workplace injuries and fatalities among contractors are being driven by a small number of high-energy hazards, even as overall… …
A new report from contractor management firm ISN finds that employees consistently rate workplace safety culture lower than contractors do, a gap the company says stems from greater day-to-day exposure… …
A tree planter suffered serious injuries after a bear attacked her twice in a remote British Columbia logging cutblock in July 2023, a WorkSafeBC investigation has found. The worker, who… …
A form wall at a highrise construction excavation site collapsed in February 2023, trapping a worker beneath it and causing serious injuries, a WorkSafeBC investigation has found. Workers were spraying… …
A 17-car freight train derailment in southern Alberta in February 2024 was partly caused by a supervisor who had not yet completed key technical training, the Transportation Safety Board of… …
Snow and ice-related workplace injuries are running roughly 40 per cent above last winter’s pace in Nova Scotia, according to new data from WCB Nova Scotia released Feb. 24. WCB… …
By Bob Mackin | Prince George Citizen A BC Review Board tribunal decided to keep a man in custody for another 12 months due to his “fragile brain and risk of… …
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