Farinaz Havaei, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia School of Nursing, says there is a “prevalent ...

Labour Minister Harry Bains says reforms are coming to WorkSafeBC. But not fast enough for Sharon Cager. Photo via BC government. On a Thursday in early February Sharon Cager was assaulted while doing ...

The B.C. government was preparing to release a progress report on worker safety in forest-product mills earlier this month when an explosion ripped through a wood-pellet plant in Burns Lake, injuring ...

WorkSafeBC has posted a new guide, posters, and a video addressing hazards specific to craft-brewing and distilling processes, including carbon dioxide and confined spaces. Mar 21, 2019 WorkSafeBC ...

A first aid attendant was looking for the worker to conduct the orientation when he was discovered to have been crushed by a ...

VICTORIA — The government agency in charge of setting and enforcing the rules for reopening businesses closed by the pandemic can’t afford to help businesses buy protective equipment because it has ...

WorkSafeBC has fined Muchalat Projects Ltd. nearly $22,000 following a fatal workplace incident at a Nanaimo construction site in Sept. 2024.

B.C.'s worker safety agency ignored years of legal advice from the province's own lawyers before it bungled its probe of a 2012 mill explosion so badly that no one will ever face charges in the ...

A business lobby group is calling on provincial workplace regulator WorkSafeBC to return excess funds to small businesses in B.C., saying the funds will offer relief amid rising costs and economic ...

A 2007 agreement with B.C.’s solicitor general to give WorkSafeBC investigators special powers requires them to know how to conduct interviews and seize evidence so it can stand up in court. Those ...

B.C. employers will face annual WorkSafeBC premium increases of at least five per cent for the next several years after the Crown corporation’s income plunged by $900 million last year. The income ...

A CBC News investigation has uncovered questionable methods used by WorkSafeBC to avoid compensating workers for costly injuries. "They're trying to force me to go on welfare," says former tow truck ...