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GHS (WHMIS 2015) online courses now available

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Regulation still required compliance with older ANSI standard, not updated version: Tribunal

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“You’re kind of close to those wires”: excavator operator guilty of OHSA charges after hitting power line

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Work-refusing employee did not have right to delay investigation for 2 hours until her preferred union representative could attend

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City bylaw prohibiting hookah smoking in licensed businesses for health and safety reasons is valid: Court

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Three days in jail for owner of roofing business after trying to deceive MOL inspector

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After being told that she should just “quit” if she felt unsafe, dismissed employee awarded $15,000 in damages

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Appeal of MOL compliance order adjourned while related OHSA prosecution ongoing, despite City’s objection

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Federal employee has effective veto over appointment of “impartial” workplace violence investigator, as long as veto not exercised in “abusive” manner: Tribunal

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OLRB dismisses union’s “fishing expedition” in safety case: documents requested from MOL and employer were not arguably relevant

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After accepting guilty plea, prosecutor cannot reargue trial court’s decision to exclude evidence of worker’s injury when setting fine

The Ministry of Labour cannot reopen a Justice of the Peace’s decision to exclude evidence that a worker was injured, […]

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Worker entitled to asbestos records for government building he worked in, but not list of employees in building

A worker was entitled to asbestos records for the government building he worked in. However, he was not entitled to […]

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