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Occupational Hygiene
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Power and Prejudice
“Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” This remark by Canadian judge Robin Camp to a sexual-assault victim during a trial he presided over in Calgary in 2014 has not only spurred an inquiry by the Canadian Judicial Council.…
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Military lays sexual-assault charges against two members
Both accused personnel from Halifax base
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Drawing the Line
The message is unequivocal: sexual harassment in Ontario workplaces will not be tolerated, as the province introduces a bill that extends protections to employees by broadening the definition of workplace harassment and imposing additional obligations on employers to prevent and investigate such incidents.
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Union alleges psychologically unsafe workplace at OPSEU
Employees feel anti-harassment policy is not working
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Businesses, homes evacuated after accidental gas leak at construction site
Pipeline fixed, power restored within a few hours
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Mail carrier attacked by pit bulls in north Montreal suburb
Postal worker bitten 14 times on arm
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Defence Department employees moving to building with asbestos
DND says Gatineau building poses no health and safety risks
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Unions support bill on registry for occupational disease
Amendment to Labour Code passed first reading on June 14
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Supreme Court finds in favour of medical workers claiming workplace cancer
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of three British Columbia medical workers who argued they developed breast cancer as a result of their jobs. Katrina Hammer, Patricia Schmidt and Anne MacFarlane, who worked in a…
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Sound Advice
By Jean Lian Come July 1, a new noise regulation under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) to beef up worker protection against noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) will come into effect. The new regulation replaces and extends the noise-protection…
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Ex-workers taking hospital to Supreme Court over alleged cancer cluster
Cancer diagnoses date back to 1970: union lawyer
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Fredericton mourns firefighter who had occupational cancer
Robert Berryman, 61, began firefighting career in 1978
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ONA blasts Guelph hospital for alleged inattention to safety
Union files grievance against healthcare facility
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Building housing ministry offices evacuated due to possible asbestos
Pipe tests positive for asbestos in Regina building
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Federal construction projects using material with asbestos: unions
Government claims non-friable asbestos cement is safe
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Report: workers with job insecurity, stress tend to come to work while ill
Collaborative study examines the common factors in presenteeism
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Mould, radiation concerns raised at Dalhousie dentistry clinic
N.S. Department of Labour and Advanced Education investigating
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Flu vaccines available in two provinces
Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia encouraging residents to get flu shots
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Infected worker at laboratory lacked safety training
A recent report from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has revealed that a supervisor with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg was infected by one of the diseases that he was researching in 2012 – and that…
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Library survey pinpoints biohazards, understaffing, other employee stressors
Survey is first part of study of worker safety in B.C. libraries
