Workplace Safety

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… …

A Quebec-based furniture manufacturer has been fined $50,000 after a worker was critically injured at its Cornwall, Ont., plant. Ridgewood Industries Ltd., headquartered in Laval, Que., pleaded guilty in the… …

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… …

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… …

Ideal Supply Inc. has been fined $70,000 after a worker fell from a ladder and was hurt at its warehouse in Listowel, Ont. The Mississauga, Ont.-based tools and parts supplier… …

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… …

A Guelph company and one of its workers have been fined a total of $195,000 after a truck driver fell to his death while being helped off a truck bed.… …