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 ...

Public hearings will take place this fall about proposed amendments to WorkSafeBC's Occupational Health and Safety Regulation that affects joint health and safety committees. The proposed changes have ...

EllisDon Corp. was fined $1.2 million in total for three crane accidents in 2025 and 2024, including collapse at Oakridge that killed Yuridia Flores, a mother of two from Mexico ...

Construction workers gather outside the Oakridge Mall site after a fatal incident involving a crane dropping its load onto a woman below. Court documents allege a 'systemic failure' to manage health ...

A B.C. developer was fined over $80,000 after a workplace safety violation in Abbotsford involving a concrete pour.

Though it happened across the border, April’s collapse of a tower crane in Downtown Seattle wasn’t far from the minds of B.C.’s crane community Wednesday at a safety conference in Richmond. In that ...

A Fraser Valley developer has been fined $80,500 and put on probation for two years after he endangered workers at an ...

There has been a marked shift in the way B.C. sawmills are managing combustible dust since two deadly sawdust-fuelled explosions in 2012 put a new focus on inspections, says the author of a July ...

WorkSafeBC has announced industry-specific resources and guidelines for businesses re-opening during phase two of B.C.’s Restart Plan. Al Johnson, head of prevention services at WorkSafeBC, said ...

A Richmond-based provincial agency is issuing safety recommendations following an increase in risks associated with cranes. WorkSafeBC announced Tuesday that it developed a risk-reduction strategy ...

A stunt performer who died in a downtown Vancouver motorcycle crash while filming a scene for Deadpool 2 wasn’t wearing a helmet for the stunt, one of several safety violations the production studio ...

WorkSafeBC says it has issued more than 300 orders for health and safety violations concerning COVID-19. The agency conducted 12,646 scheduled and impromptu work site inspections as of July 3, some of ...