Various kinds of inappropriate conduct by workers can establish “just cause” for their termination, such as poor job performance, harassment, violence, theft of company property, etc. But can an employer fire a worker for swearing on the job? Here are two cases in which arbitrators …

Pesticides are most dangerous when in concentrated form. On most farms, this means when they’re in storage. This video demonstrates the importance of – and requirements for – proper storage to avoid pesticide poisoning.

By the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association

Your company can avoid liability for environmental violations by proving that it took all reasonable steps to comply with environmental law and prevent the violation—in other words, that it exercised “due diligence.” But nowhere in the law does it spell out exactly what “reasonable steps” …

At a manufacturing plant, a worker was operating a vertical lathe when her hand got caught between the chuck and the tooling turret as she was lowering the chuck to load a piece into it. Her hand was seriously crushed. The manufacturer was convicted of …

The oil and gas industry is one of the more hazardous sectors in Canada. For example, in 2010, there were 16 fatalities in the upstream oil and gas industry in Alberta alone and 83 serious injuries in the industry in BC that year. So it’s …

By: Bill Hartman, P.T., C.S.C.S.Without even looking at you, I’m pretty sure you have a posture problem. That’s because almost everyone I see has a posture problem. After years of evaluating clients at my fitness center in Indianapolis, I’ve learned to spot …

By Fred Leafloor, CRSP, CHSC, CRM This article is the first in a series providing the author’s insight into the changing communications role of the safety professional. Much of a safety professional’s effectiveness is determined by his or her ability to clearly articulate important ideas …

Long, debilitating illnesses that keep workers away from work for extended periods of time are a nightmare. A rule called “frustration of contract” lets you terminate workers when an illness (or injury) makes it impossible for them to do their jobs. The problem is that …

The main purpose of this literature review published by the IRSST (Institut de recherché Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail) was to provide an overview of the main topics and recent trends in contemporary work disability research and to identify potentially successful intervention …