A look back at the Westray mining disaster 20 years later and its impact on Canadian workplace safety.

The aspect of the newly passed Ontario OHS reform law, Bill 160, that’s probably going to have the most direct and immediate impact on you and your safety program are the changes that make it easier for workers to file reprisal complaints.
Of course, reprisals are …

As part of Safe At Work Ontario, the Ministry of Labour develops annual sector-specific enforcement plans that focus on hazards and outline what inspectors will be looking for during an inspection. This Construction Sector Plan outlines the ministry’s strategy to protect Ontario’s construction workers from …

Many factors influence the risk of injury and illness in a workplace, such as the industry, nature of the work and type of equipment and materials used. Every safety coordinator is surely familiar with these factors. But recent research has identified another risk factor that’s …

Work-related stress is one of the most important issues in many countries and in different kinds of workplaces. Stress has many negative impacts, including circulatory and gastrointestinal diseases, other physical problems, psychosomatic and psychosocial problems, and low productivity. Increasing emphasis is being placed on improving …

A new and surprisingly complex Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Standard may be arriving at and impacting your workplace soon. A proposed Standard has been developed, setting out optimistic goals and processes for achieving “psychological health and safety” in the workplace. Policies, procedures, hazard identification, incident …

Yukon Energy is the primary generator and transmitter of power to Yukoners. Because of this, we are also one of the agencies to respond when emergencies occur.
Over the years, our experience in responding to crisis situations has taught us two key things: fi rstly, the …

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” …

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” …

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 …