Tag: Occupational Health & Safety Code
Website now ranks Alberta employers on workplace safety
Labour leaders are giving rare praise to the Alberta government for a revamped website that allows people to find out which employers have the highest number of workplace deaths and […]
Read more »Redford reneges on farm worker safety
Seeds of reform fail to germinate when report omits update to Occupational Health and Safety Act Edmonton – Workers in Alberta’s agriculture sector deserve better says the Alberta Federation of […]
Read more »Alberta issues record setting fine to Chinese state-owned oil firm
/An Alberta judge has ordered the Canadian arm of a Chinese state-owned oil company to pay the biggest workplace safety fine in the province’s history after the death of two […]
Read more »Sinopec $1.5 million penalty for workplace deaths a ‘slap on the wrist,’ says union
/A Canadian subsidiary of Sinopec, a Chinese state-owned oil corporation, was ordered to pay $1.5-million fine Thursday, approximately six years after a collapsing tank roof killed two Chinese workers at […]
Read more »Sinopec Oil Sands Workers’ Deaths: Energy Giant To Pay $1.5 Million
/ST. ALBERT, Alta. – A firm linked to a Chinese state-owned company was ordered Thursday to pay $1.5 million in penalties in the deaths of two foreign workers at an […]
Read more »Firm linked to China ordered to pay $1.5 million in deaths of workers in Alberta
/ST. ALBERT, Alta. – A firm linked to a Chinese state-owned company was ordered Thursday to pay $1.5 million in penalties in the deaths of two foreign workers at an […]
Read more »Largest workplace fine in Alberta history for oil giant’s role in the death of two Chinese workers
/ST. ALBERT – A Canadian subsidiary of Chinese state-owned oil giant Sinopec has been ordered to pay $1.5 million in penalties for failing to ensure the safety of two Chinese […]
Read more »Calgary mom outraged as stats show Alberta slow to prosecute unsafe employers
/Saskatchewan prosecutes four times as many cases The province’s workplace safety prosecution record is drawing fire, as new figures show signifi cantly fewer cases were taken to court last year […]
Read more »Calgary mom outraged as stats show Alberta slow to prosecute unsafe employers
Saskatchewan prosecutes four times as many cases The province’s workplace safety prosecution record is drawing fire, as new figures show signifi cantly fewer cases were taken to court last year […]
Read more »Alberta safety law sparks controversy
/CALGARY — A Redford government plan to target employers who repeatedly defy the province’s safety laws with new penalties of up to $10,000 is being opposed by an industry group […]
Read more »Five work-related deaths in five days has Alberta Federation of Labour speaking out
/It’s been a sad week for workplace accidents in Alberta. Five workers have died in as many days, in unrelated accidents. The first accident happened Monday and involved a man […]
Read more »Five dead this week in workplace accidents around Alberta
/EDMONTON – Five people are dead in as many days after a spate of workplace accidents around the province this week. Occupational Health and Safety spokesman Brookes Merritt said the […]
Read more »Sister of man who died on the job makes plea for workplace safety
The sister of a Sherwood Park man who drowned on the job in Fort McMurray is urging workers to watch out for each other. Christopher Fontaine, 32, was found dead […]
Read more »Alberta Federation of Labour urges ag safety regulation
Dan Urban has been farming just west of Innisfail for years without a serious injury of any kind. Still, he knows he can’t let his guard down for a second. […]
Read more »Concerns arise over lack of regulation for farm worker safety
A leaked draft of a farm safety report is drawing new attention to a black hole in Alberta’s labour legislation: Farm workers on traditional farms continue to be the only […]
Read more »The only sector where you can’t have a union is the only one with no health and safety rules? Explain, please…
/Literally everybody – and that includes Alberta Premier Alison Redford – knows that permitting an industry to “voluntarily” self-regulate the health and safety of its own workers amounts to a […]
Read more »Labour law inclusion demanded for Alta. farms
/Lack of protection for Alberta farm workers was highlighted Aug. 20 by Alberta’s New Democrats and the Alberta Federation of Labour. The two groups used the occasion of the AFL-designated […]
Read more »Alberta, Canada Farm Fatalities Go Unreported
/The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) says the government’s decision to withhold information on farm fatalities is an attempt to move the issue to the back burner and off the […]
Read more »Province neglects to report fatalities
/Government accused of ignoring farm workers’ rights The Alberta government’s failure to post its annual report of farm work-related fatalities has brought allegations from the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) […]
Read more »Farm workers deserve protection
/Province should give farm workers occupational safeguards The province was called upon again this week to give Alberta farm workers the same protections as those in other occupations, and in […]
Read more »Alberta no longer reports farm fatalities; union says workers unprotected
/DMONTON – The Alberta Federation of Labour is chiding the provincial government for no longer reporting farm fatalities. The union says the move is an example of how — quote […]
Read more »Government Audit Reveals Shocking Number of Safety Violations on Alberta Construction Sites: Commercial construction sector clearly under-regulated; workers at continuous risk of injury o…
Edmonton – Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan reacted to a special government health and safety audit of commercial construction sites today, calling the results a “shocking wake-up call,” […]
Read more »Workplace safety website falls short of pledge; Full safety records to remain clouded in secrecy
EDMONTON – While the government has taken nearly a decade to finalize its website with workplace injury and fatality records, workers will have to wait even longer to get the […]
Read more »Alberta prepares to launch new safety code in July 2009
A new Alberta safety code is coming into effect in July after a lengthy public consultation process. “Our members are supportive of the changes to legislation that improve safety, but […]
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