Features & Analysis

A WorkSafeBC investigation has found inadequate supervision and failure to enforce fall protection procedures led to a worker’s death at a warehouse construction site in May 2022. The worker fell… …

WorkSafeBC received more than 900 Notice of Project submissions for tower crane operations in the first year of a new regulation that took effect Oct. 1, 2024. The regulation requires… …

Ontario’s workers’ compensation system terminates Loss of Earnings benefits for injured workers at age 65, regardless of whether they planned to continue working, according to a report released by the… …

Workers’ Compensation Board Nova Scotia is urging fishing crews to prioritize safety as the lobster season opens in Southwestern Nova Scotia, five years after the Chief William Saulis sank in… …

Nova Scotia’s fishing industry reported 221 injury claims and 56 time-loss injuries in 2024, prompting provincial officials to emphasize safety measures as thousands of lobster traps were deployed along the… …

A routine safety inspection turned into a serious injury incident when a bulk carrier’s lifeboat inadvertently released and plunged into the water with a crew member inside, according to a… …

By J.P. Antonacci | The Hamilton Spectator Zak Muise died while trying to help. The 25-year-old wildland firefighter from Norfolk County in Ontario was killed in a vehicle rollover in July 2023 while battling the Donnie… …

By Steven Sukkau | Winnipeg Sun Violence against front-line health-care workers continues to escalate in Manitoba, with the latest incident at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) leaving a health-care aide choked and… …

By Dick Zoutman, Queen’s University, Ontario; Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University; Mark Ungrin, University of Calgary, and Ryan Tennant, University of Waterloo The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization… …