Toronto Workers’ Health & Safety Legal Clinic

TORONTO WORKERS’ HEALTH & SAFETY LEGAL CLINIC          

newsletter 

2012 07.   Vol. 20  No.2.     

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in this issue:  Vol. 20  No.2.         July 2012.  

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●Our Clinic & veterans.                                                   1

●chemical & physical exposure – veterans.                       1

●92U238                                                                         2

●82Pb207                                                                        3

●agent orange-dioxin-TCDD                                           3

●burn-pit - TCDD?                                                         3

●cold                                                                             3

●vibration                                                                       4

●hearing loss                                                                   4

●Shock wave from explosions                                            4

●malaria prevention & mefloquine                                4

●case & comment —     

●Ontario (Labour) v Sheehan’s Truck Centre Ltd.      5

●Filsinger’s  & Cottonfelts                                        5

●Filsinger’s -- no Coroner’s Inquest –                          7

●R  v  […]; et al. .1. Toronto swing-stage                10

●R  v  […]; et al. .2.  scaffold fatalities.                  11

●topic revisited — Ontario Toxics

  Reduction Act, 2009  — new Regulation.                              12

●in the press –  

●sawmill explosion                                          13

●Military / Veteran’s suicide                                  13

●SAWMILL DISASTER           13

●PUBLIC INTEREST HEARING--Veteran’s suicide        13

●Crane Owner Cleared                                                14

●oil spills                                                               14

●Long Hours for Truckers                                       14

●athletes’ use of injected painkiller.                      14

●drugging soldiers                                                  14

●Veterans And Brain Disease                                    14

● [US] Army Psychiatric Evaluations                            14

●Cataloging Wounds of War                                    14

●Disservice to Disabled [US] Troops                          14

●Suicides Outpacing War Deaths For [US] Troops     14

●bisphenol A                                                           15

●two workers killed at German

   cyclododecatriene facility.                                   15

●Gulf oil rig - Chemical safety board jurisdiction      15

●2,4-D                                                                     15

●hot work fatalities.                                                 15

● EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS FUNDING      

– CLINIC’S LETTER TO GOVERNMENT                              16

●war memorial, Toronto.                                                 18

●notes.                                                                           18

●for future issues.                                                          22

●publication data.                                                          22