B.C. is adding a 12-month safety monitoring period for new drivers moving up to a full licence, part of a broader overhaul that replaces the second road test with a… …
Newfoundland and Labrador has changed how retirement benefits are calculated for injured workers, and the change applies retroactively to January 1, 2019. The amendment, passed as SNL 2026, c. 8,… …
Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) says more injured workers are returning to their jobs sooner, one year after a new legal duty to cooperate took effect. The rule, part… …
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.… …
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) has pulled three Bird Dog aircraft from wildfire duty while it conducts a safety review. The move follows a crash involving the same aircraft… …
The Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia says its time-loss injury rate has dropped to a new low, meeting a 2030 target three and a half years ahead of schedule.… …
WorkSafeNB recorded nine workplace fatalities in 2025, down from 15 the year before, according to the Crown corporation’s 2025 annual report released July 9. The report covers the first full… …
British Columbia recorded 109 deaths from suspected unregulated drug toxicity in May 2026, the BC Coroners Service reported in a bulletin issued July 9. That works out to about 3.5… …
Newfoundland and Labrador’s lost-time injury rate stayed at an all-time low of 1.2 per 100 workers in 2025, WorkplaceNL said. The number of new injury claims also reached a record… …
Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB Nova Scotia) has reached its 2030 workplace safety target three and a half years ahead of schedule. The board recorded 1.15 time-loss injuries per… …
Safety News Canada is a news and information source dedicated to occupational health and safety.
©2026 All Right Reserved. Designed and Developed by North Wall Media.
