Health and safety

The Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) has compiled a list of Day of Mourning events happening across the province between Thursday, April 25 and Sunday, April 28. You can see and download the list of events here. And here are the WHSC’s recent accident and fatality statistics      

OPSEU/SEFPO is alarmed by ongoing incidents at the new Toronto courthouse, which have raised serious concerns for the health and safety of our members working on-site. At this time, the union is aware of at least two members who have been injured on the job – one of whom sustained a serious injury due to...

The fight to advance workers’ rights includes pushing to expand and enforce just compensation for injured workers. On one front, some progress has been won to recognize chronic mental stress as a compensable workplace injury in Ontario in recent years. But the large number of denials for chronic mental stress claims have left workers without...