Provisions for the prevention of workplace violence will soon be part of the federal occupational health and safety regulation, according to Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec.

Blackburn made the announcement at the Canadian launch of the North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week in Ottawa on May 5th.

Beleaguered WSIB chair Steve Mahoney has urged labour groups and employers to keep a cool head amid the controversy surrounding his agency’s employer rebate program. Labour groups, meanwhile, have called for Mahoney's resignation.

A Quebec judge has fined a paving-stone manufacturer $110,000 for criminal negligence in the death of a worker, in what was said to be the country’s first criminal conviction and sentencing of a company involving a workplace death.

A new bill has been introduced in the Ontario Legislature that sought to amend the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act to include provisions dealing with workplace harassment and violence.
 
Andrea Horwath, MPP for Hamilton Centre, filed the proposed legislation following the release of the recommendations from an inquiry into the death of Lori Dupont, a Windsor, Ont. nurse reportedly killed by an ex-boyfriend who is a doctor at the same hospital where Dupont worked.