Recent immigrants not only have poorer job situations than workers born in Canada, but immigrant men are also twice as likely to sustain workplace injuries that require medical care compared with men born in Canada, according to new research from the Institute for Work and Health (IWH).

The safety of your workers is no longer just about reducing the risks of fall hazards, chemical exposures or dangerous machinery; today, it’s also about keeping them safe from terrorists.

This was the topic of a presentation by Dan Farr, who spent 32 years of his career with the Halton Regional Police Service working in intelligence.

Very quietly, oil and gas producers are breathing a sigh of relief and crossing their fingers. It may be a testament to the industry’s commitment to safety that difficult conditions — the need to keep up with new workers, new jobs, new activities, new technologies, and competing at a frenzied pace during a record “oil boom” —haven’t wrought havoc with the industry’s lost-time injury rate. Knock on wood.