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orientation and training of young and new workers

By Marcia Scheffler | 3 Minutes Read May 26, 2014

Common sense, health and safety and young workers

A friend of mine told me that she used to believe in common sense until one of her young summer workers put his hand where it wasn't supposed to go.  Fortunately only a finger was lost and it was able to be re-attached later; but my friend’s philosophical belief in common sense was chopped off forever.

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By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 2 Minutes Read December 8, 2010

Paving company owner OHS fine for death of teen

A Manitoba business owner was fined $33,500 for numerous workplace and safety violations which contributed to the death of a 15-year-old boy who was buried in burning asphalt.

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