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Occupational Hygiene
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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
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Two arrested after scuffle with security at Sask. legislature
Woman, 27, bites one peace officer, sends him to hospital
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Health Canada revises public info on asbestos risk
Government now acknowledges that all forms of mineral are harmful
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Ebola measures aim to protect healthcare workers
Ontario’s new measures developed with guidance from oh&s specialists
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Ontario announces increase in firefighter cancer coverage
(Canadian OH&S News) — The government of Ontario is expanding the qualifications for workers’ compensation for career firefighters. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced on April 30 that the province would add six types of cancer to the…
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Statement by Minister Leitch on North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
OTTAWA, (Canada NewsWire) — The Honourable Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour and Minister of the Status of Women, today challenged all Canadians, especially employers and employees, to help prevent injuries and illnesses in the…