The B.C. government was preparing to release a progress report on worker safety in forest-product mills earlier this month when an explosion ripped through a wood-pellet plant in Burns Lake, injuring ...
WorkSafeBC has posted a new guide, posters, and a video addressing hazards specific to craft-brewing and distilling processes, including carbon dioxide and confined spaces. Mar 21, 2019 WorkSafeBC ...
Farinaz Havaei, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia School of Nursing, says there is a “prevalent ...
VICTORIA — The government agency in charge of setting and enforcing the rules for reopening businesses closed by the pandemic can’t afford to help businesses buy protective equipment because it has ...
B.C.'s worker safety agency ignored years of legal advice from the province's own lawyers before it bungled its probe of a 2012 mill explosion so badly that no one will ever face charges in the ...
The worker killed by a falling door frame was one of three Muchalat Projects Ltd. employees who were overdue for a site safety orientation that day, says WorkSafeBC.
WorkSafeBC has fined GFL Environmental more than $710,000 for asbestos violations at a work site in Kimberly, B.C. (GFL - image credit) WorkSafeBC says it has handed out its highest administrative ...
A bonus program for employees of WorkSafeBC is coming under criticism from a lawyer for injured workers and from a business group whose members pay to keep the non-profit agency operating. WorkSafeBC ...
A 2007 agreement with B.C.’s solicitor general to give WorkSafeBC investigators special powers requires them to know how to conduct interviews and seize evidence so it can stand up in court. Those ...
WorkSafeBC has fined Harrison Hot Springs resort $105,078 for workplace safety violations. WorkSafeBC stated in a Sep. 24 order it had “inspected this firm's workplace and issued orders for several ...
A CBC News investigation has uncovered questionable methods used by WorkSafeBC to avoid compensating workers for costly injuries. "They're trying to force me to go on welfare," says former tow truck ...
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