Three young workers lives ended in the last year in separate log hauling fatalities in British Columbia.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
In 2015, Canada’s Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) was updated to be in line with similar systems in the United States and other countries. It’s now referred to as WHMIS 2015 and also as the globally harmonized system (GHS). It’s being rolled out gradually until 2018, to give workers, employers, and suppliers enough time […]
“They express fear about losing their jobs over refusing unsafe work. They want to know who they can talk to if their supervisor isn’t responsive to their concerns… Generally, they just want to know how the system applies to them once they get out there in the field.”
Since 1998 in B.C., avalanches have caused three worker deaths and 47 accepted time-loss injury claims. It doesn’t just happen on big mountainsides; basically it can happen in anything that is steep enough to slide.
They may seem pretty funny at first – but it’s really tragic to think of all the loved ones, co-workers, clients, and other people who are affected when things go sideways (literally).
