The latest in Canadian construction safety, regulations, and industry best practices.
Canada recorded 1,056 accepted workplace fatalities in 2023, according to data compiled by the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada. Construction accounts for a disproportionate share of those deaths every year. The sector is physically
Terrance Leacock
NCSO & Construction Superintendent
Canadian construction employers faced a significant wave of OHS regulation updates in 2025 and 2026, and the pace of change shows no sign of slowing. Ontario introduced mandatory defibrillators on construction sites and a new administrative penalty
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Every serious injury on a Canadian construction site begins the same way. A hazard exists, no one formally identifies it, and a worker encounters it before anyone has thought through what to do. That sequence is not inevitable. It is the result of a gap in
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Between 2011 and 2015, Canadian workplaces recorded nearly 12,000 lost-time injuries tied to confined space incidents, along with 14 fatalities. That number is grim on its own. What makes it worse is this: according to the Canadian Centre for Occupational
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On February 21, 2024, a worker named Yuridia Flores was standing at the base of a tower crane at Vancouver's Oakridge Park development when a concrete forming mould fell 26 storeys and struck her. She was 41 years old, a mother of two, and she had not r
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