Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Law
Keeping you current on OHS Laws and Developments in Canada.
A trucking company should have offered a tanker truck driver fresh training before asking him to pull a 53′ refrigerated […]
On June 15, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Stewart v Elk Valley Coal Corp. (2017 […]
The Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has ruled that an employee who was injured at lunchtime in a […]
A recent Ontario Labour Relations Board decision confirms that the 30-day deadline for appealing Ministry of Labour health and safety […]
A “Safety Engineering Letter of Opinion”, styled as an “expert report” and covering Occupational Health and Safety Act obligations, was […]
The Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act requires employers to report fatalities and “critical injuries” to the Ontario Ministry of […]
A volunteer has lost his lawsuit against a church after he fell off a stepladder he was using at the […]
A correctional officer with sinusitis and sensitivity to second-hand smoke was entitled to have her work refusal investigated by prison […]
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety has released two online courses on WHMIS 2015, which implements the Globally […]
Where the government had not updated a regulation to require compliance with a newer version of an ANSI (American National […]
The Ministry of Labour and the employer were not required to hand over certain documents requested by the union in […]
Freedom of religion and the duty to accommodate within the workplace context is a highly important issue in Québec given […]
