Workplace Safety

By George Lee | The Macleod Gazette Critical days lie ahead for a rules-and-roads navigation and permitting tool for truckers, Alberta’s Official Opposition warned. Speaking to reporters, the NDP’s Lorne Dach… …

British Columbia has launched a text-based support service to help tradespeople manage chronic pain, connecting workers to counselling, pain programs and mental-health resources through a single text message. The Guide… …

Prince Edward Island’s Labour and Industrial Relations office will move to a new Charlottetown address on April 27, the provincial government has announced. The office is relocating from the Sherwood… …

By Arty Sarkisian | Nunatsiaq News Qulliq Energy Corp. is set to be sentenced under Nunavut’s Safety Act for charges related to the death of one of its electricians in 2024. “The matter… …

VelocityEHS has released an artificial intelligence-based assessment tool designed to identify hand and wrist injury risks in workers performing repetitive tasks. The Chicago-based company says the tool, called the AI… …

Manitoba’s Department of Natural Resources and Indigenous Futures has been fined $100,000 after a wildfire worker died when an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) rolled over while on duty in 2022. The… …

The Ontario government has introduced legislation that would expand worker health and safety protections and harmonize safety training requirements across Canadian provinces. The Protecting Ontario’s Workers and Economic Resilience Act,… …

By Mike Stimpson | 4SNnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Local MPP Lise Vaugeois’s private member’s bill to reform the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board failed in the legislature, but a local advocate for injured… …

By Isaac Phan Nay | The Tyee A B.C. Supreme Court justice ordered contractor J. Cote & Son Excavating to pay $575,000 Monday after ruling the company’s criminal negligence caused the… …