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newsletter    Vol. 19   No. 1

 

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in this issue:  Vol. 19  No.1        April 2011.           

 

●WSIB Funding Review.           page 1

●case & comment -- USA v COMPREHENSIVE DRUG TESTING, INC. BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION v USA.                   page 2

●articling student report                         page 2

●in the press –           

●Agent Orange                  page 3

●No Thanksgiving for migrant workers                  page 3

●Lawyer hired to secure dead Jamaican farm workers' money.                          page 3

●blood diamonds                           page 3

●No miracles for most trapped miners                 page 3

●MINING / Asbestos                       page 4

●offshore oil safety                        page 4

●Oil sands report                           page 4

●scaffold.                           page 4

●Mercury                page 4

●Small town grieves for firefighters who died in action                             page 4

●Down the mine, up the mine                   page 4

●Toxic Metals Tied to Work In [US] Prisons.                     page 4

●Since Big Branch [W.Va. coal, April 2010].                     page 4

● sports concussions.    4

●“…DOES FOOTBALL HAVE A FUTURE?…”                page 5

● Rare Earth Embargo.                 page 5

● n-hexane                         page 5

● tomato fields of Florida.                          page 5

● Triangle Waist Company fire.                 page 6

●Child-Product Makers Seek To Soften New [US] Safety Rules                       page 6

●“Death at the Wal-Mart sale / … on the science of crowd control …” page 6

●“LOOK OUT!”  --  Spider-Man …                        page 6

● protective eyewear.                    page 6

●more on TLVs.                         page 7

●notes.                                       page 8

●for future issues.                      page 10

●publication data.                       page 10

           

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Triangle Waist Company factory fire   New York City, 25 March 1911      see page 6.   

 

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News and meetings

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

24 October 2012.

180 Dundas St. West,

19th Floor;  5:30 pm.

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Clinic’s submission to M of L re new exposure limits. http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2010+09%7C2010+09+20.++Submission+to+M+of+L.doc    

 

Clinic’s “SUBMISSION TO THE [M of L] EXPERT ADVISORY PANEL ON ...[OH&S] / PROPOSED CHANGES  TO THE PREVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM,”  30 June 2010. http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2010+06%7C2010+06+30.+Submissions+to+MoL+Panel.doc   

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – 16 June 2010.  Metro Hall,  7pm., 55 John Street, room 309, 3rd Floor. http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?dir=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2010+06+++AGM  

 

Clinic’s annual LAO budget approved. http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2009+11.%7C2009+11+06.+Approved+Annual+Budget.doc   

 

Financial Report   31 March 2010. http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2010+03%7C2010+03+31.+++%24+report.pdf    

 

Financial Report 31 March 2011.

http://www.workers-safety.ca/publications?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2011+03%7C2011+03+31.+financial+report+++.pdf  

LAO Spotlight  http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2009+12%7C2009+12.+LAO+Spotlight.pdf          http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/news/newsarchive/0912-07_spotlight-twhslc.asp  

 

 Clinic’s submission re Bill 168. http://www.workers-safety.ca/remository?do=view&file=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2009+11.%7C2009+11+20.+TWHSLC+Bill+168+Submissions.doc  

 

from the Ontario Ministry of Labour:   Workplace Violence and Harassment: Understanding the Law / Health and Safety Guidelines http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/pubs/wpvh/violence.php  http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/pdf/wpvh_gl.pdf   Protecting Workers From Workplace Violence and Workplace Harassment  http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/sawo/pubs/fs_workplaceviolence.php  

Expert Advisory Panel on Occupational Health and Safety      http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/eap/index.php

Expert Advisory Panel on Occupational Health and Safety / Report and Recommendations to the Minister of Labour,  December 2010.    http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/eap/report/index.php  http://news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2010/12/new-chief-prevention-officer-to-oversee-workplace-safety.html     http://news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2010/12/occupational-health-and-safety-panel-recommendations.html  http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/     http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/907887--report-calls-for-sweeping-changes-after-scaffolding-deaths?bn=1  

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

15 June 2011.

180 Dundas St. W.

19th floor  

http://www.workers-safety.ca/publications?dir=publications%3A+newsletter%2C+Workers+Guide%2C+FACT+SHEETS%2C+reports%2C+etc%7C2011+06++AGM