During the third day of a heat wave, outdoor temperature reach 31 o C and humidity levels 35 percent. The heat is even more intense inside the New Brunswick pulp and paper mill where boilermakers are making repairs for a third consecutive day. One of …

Disobeying the orders of a supervisor, a mine worker chose to dump scrap on a stope not designated for dumping instead of on the nearest “scrap stope.” He fell into an open hole and was killed. The mine was charged with several safety violations. But …

An Alberta manufacturer got a new spreader beam weighing 540 kg. The beam was connected to an electric chain hoist on the shop’s roof but the pin on the beam was too large for the hoist. As a result, the safety latch couldn’t close while …

On Feb. 8, 2010, an Australian café, its owner, its manager, a waiter and a chef were convicted under Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act for viciously bullying a 19-year-old worker both physically and emotionally to the point where she jumped off a building to …

Workers from an HVAC contractor pressurized pipes with nitrogen gas to check for leaks before installing a cooling system. A welder wrongly believed the test was over and the pipes were no longer depressurized. As he bent over a pipe, a sudden release of gas …

Why Informal OHS Programs Aren’t Enough, Even for a Small Workforce

A worker on a steel barge peered through a hatch and saw his co-workers and a supervisor “all piled up on top of each other” inside a void space. One of the firefighters called to …

A worker in Alberta was operating a mill that prepares rubber to retread industrial tires. Rubber got stuck to the back roller. The worker went to the back of the mill to fi x the malfunction. He climbed over a guardrail, lost his balance, fell …