HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY IN ONTARIO The Ministry of Labour has launched consultations on the development of a province-wide integrated occupational health and safety strategy, the first of its kind for Ontario. This strategy will provide a clear vision to guide Ontario’s occupational health and safety system, and workplaces. It will also help shape operational plans and programs for the ministry and its partners in the years ahead. The strategy will foc

Fall safety inspections target workplace hazards in Ontario: Written by safety-reporter.com Ontario will perform four targeted safety blitzes at workplaces across the province this fall. In September and October, inspectors from the Ministry of Labour will visit construction sites to check on supervision. In October and November, inspectors will be visiting manufacturing and industrial workplaces to review machine guarding hazards and repetitive strain injuries. In October a

NATIONAL CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN 2011 (PRELIMINARY RESULTS) A preliminary total of 4,609 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2011, down from a final count of 4,690 fatal work injuries in 2010, according to results from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) program conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate of fatal work injury for U.S. workers in 2011 was 3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, as c