WorkSafeNB has opened its annual Focus on Safety Student Video Competition, challenging New Brunswick high school students to create two-minute videos on workplace safety for cash prizes up to $1,000.… …
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Legislation & Government PolicyWorkplace Safety
WorkSafeNB launches new finance system for corporate suppliers
WorkSafeNB is rolling out a new finance system that will change how corporate suppliers submit invoices and track payments starting in early February. The workers’ compensation board will implement Oracle… …
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Legislation & Government PolicyWorkplace Safety
N.B. trucking companies urge additional government action on the Driver Inc. model
By Remko van Rhijn | River Valley Sun Trucking companies across New Brunswick and the Maritimes welcome Ottawa’s recent crackdown on the so-called Driver Inc. model, but warn that without sustained,… …
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Jury recommends training, supervision changes in inquest into fatal 2024 accident in New Brunswick
By Andrew Bates | Telegraph Journal A coroner’s jury is recommending that equipment be used only as intended after a 27,000 kilogram trailer slipped off the front of an “offroad forklift”… …
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Atlantic Business Magazine has named WorkSafeNB as one of Atlantic Canada’s Best Places to Work for 2026. The organization was selected from 255 nominees across the region. The designation adds… …
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Features & AnalysisWorkplace Safety
Coroner’s inquest to examine wind turbine worker’s death in New Brunswick
A coroner’s inquest will examine the workplace death of Matthew Brawn, who died following an accident while erecting wind turbines in Kings Rural District last summer. The two-day inquest is… …
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OHS LawWorkplace Safety
PREMIUM Woman awarded workers’ comp for back injury after driving vehicle without air suspension
by Todd Humberby Todd HumberPremium Member Access Required This article is available to Safety News Canada Premium members. Subscribe for $99/year plus HST for concise, plain-language summaries of the court decisions, arbitration rulings, and …
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By Andrew Bates | Telegraph-Journal WorkSafeNB says it’s investigating after an alleged workplace death involving a 58-year-old man in Sussex last week. On Friday, the agency posted to social media that there had… …
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Legislation & Government PolicyWorkplace Safety
New Brunswick auditor general finds nearly half of provincial highways in poor condition
New Brunswick’s auditor general has found nearly half of department-operated highways are in poor or very poor condition and called for improvements to the province’s highway safety systems. Paul Martin… …
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Legislation & Government PolicyWorkplace Safety
WorkSafeNB advances holiday benefit payments for December
WorkSafeNB will process loss of earning payments in advance during the December holiday season to ensure workers receive benefits without disruption. Workers receiving loss of earning benefits, long-term disability or… …



