On Sept. 14, the Yukon Territorial Court handed down substantial fines for a Klondike placer mining company and its owner following guilty pleas relating to the 2021 death of a worker in a bulldozer rollover. TheOccupational Health and Safety(OHS)Actcharges that Roger Stuart and Stuart ...
Trophy Stone Outfitting Limited and one of its supervisors have been fined $46,000 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after the death of an employee in Jan. 2019. (Yukon News file) A Yukon outfitting company and one of its supervisors have been fined $46,000 under the Occupation...
ACTcame into force on July 1, 2022. It replaces theWorkers’ Compensation Actand theOccupational Health and Safety Act.The changes in theWorkers’ Safety and Compensation Actaim to enhance worker safety, reduce workplace injuries, streamline the appeals process and improve return-to-work practices...
“This will mean all restrictions introduced under the Civil Emergency Measures Act in response to COVID-19 will be lifted and we can focus our efforts on recovery.” Hanley said the recovery effort won’t require new cases to drop to zero, but the health-care system must be in a positio...