News - Workplace Safety and Health

Manitoba Family Services and Labour advises employers that it is their role to ensure workplaces are safe and employees receive proper training.

Provincial and federal labour ministers have jointly launched a national video contest that builds on Manitoba’s SAFE Schools Grant program to help educate students about the importance of workplace safety and health.

Manitoba Family Services and Labour advises employers to be aware that it is their role to ensure workplaces are safe and employees receive proper training.

Manitobans will be able to go online to review key information about Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) enforcement actions with employers as part of a new series of initiatives aimed at improving worker safety.

Manitoba’s new Chief Prevention Officer will lead a review of provincial workplace safety and health services to provide clear direction on injury prevention priorities, address stakeholder concerns and improve the safety of Manitoba workplaces.

An associate professor with the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture says stepping up the focus on reducing risks in the work-place benefits both employers and employees.

A Virden man is dead after being overcome by gas at an oil company work site earlier this week in the RM of Pipestone, Manitoba.

A Ste. Anne man is dead after being run over by his gravel truck yesterday near Blumenort, Manitoba.

A man from the RM of Thompson has died after falling from some rafters at a construction site earlier this afternoon.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has developed a new e-course to provide workers, supervisors and managers with tools needed to prevent, eliminate and reduce workplace stress.