Features & Analysis

A worker drowned in October 2023 after a workboat operated by a marine towing company capsized in high winds off the coast. The worker made a distress call before the… …

By Maggie Macintosh | Winnipeg Free Press Manitoba schools are being urged to set up more “sensory rooms” and use the spaces — which can feature mood lighting, flexible seating and… …

Wildfire smoke has pushed air quality across much of southern Ontario into the orange, or “very poor,” category this week, prompting renewed attention to existing provincial and workplace safety guidance… …

A worker was seriously injured in April 2024 when a bulk container of green split peas fell on him at a food production warehouse operated by a packaged foods manufacturer,… …

WorkSafeBC will keep its preliminary average base premium rate at $1.55 per $100 of assessable payroll in 2027, marking the 10th consecutive year the rate has stayed at this level.… …

Untreated mental health struggles can build to a crisis without warning, and the workers best placed to catch the early signs are frontline managers and supervisors, a human resources consultant… …

Trespassing on rail lines killed 53 people in Canada last year, the leading cause of rail deaths, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s final 2025 occurrence statistics. The… …

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says 78 of its safety recommendations remain unresolved, despite years of calls for action from regulators and industry. The board released its annual… …

Two Island Emergency Medical Services (EMS) paramedics and the patient they were transporting died in a motor vehicle accident involving an ambulance in New Brunswick on July 7, according to… …