Alcohol and Drugs

Workplaces should keep opioid overdose reversal medication within reach, prepare workers to use it and call 911 when an overdose happens, according to new guidance from the U.S. Occupational Safety… …

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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 …