A Nova Scotia traffic control company has had a $2,000 administrative penalty revoked after the Nova Scotia Labour Board accepted evidence — including a video showing a since-resigned road signer… …
An arbitrator has ruled that the Toronto Transit Commission failed to prove its safety-sensitive workforce has a drug and alcohol problem serious enough to justify randomly testing employees, after a… …
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… …
Workplace Safety North (WSN) is drawing attention to Ontario’s forest products sector as a high-risk industry with elevated potential for incidents tied to environmental hazards. The agency says logging operations,… …
MindBio Therapeutics is developing an artificial intelligence platform that predicts drug and alcohol intoxication from short voice recordings, with workplace safety as a primary target market. The company says its… …
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By Timothy Naimi Lately, there has been a lot of news about declining alcohol sales in North America, and speculation as to why that might be. As director of the …
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A bipartisan bill reintroduced in the U.S. Congress would require federal guidance on incorporating opioid overdose response into workplace emergency plans as fatal overdoses now account for 10 per cent… …
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