Young people are three to four times more likely to be hurt on the job within the first six months of employment than the average Canadian worker.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has rated New Brunswick’s workers’ compensation system as the best overall in Canada
WorkSafeNB is now even more hands-on to help employers improve workplace safety.
WorkSafeNB is saddened to report that a worker died Friday, November 13, after an incident at a peat moss harvesting site in Inkerman, New Brunswick, about 15 kilometres north of Tracadie-Sheila. The incident happened at around 10:30 p.m.
Fredericton, N.B. – November is violence prevention month. The Nursing Home Workplace Violence Prevention Working Group, a collaboration of the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes (NBANH), the New Brunswick Nurses Union (NBNU), WorkSafeNB and the New Brunswick Continuing Care Safety Association (NBCCSA), has developed a Nursing Home Violence Prevention toolkit.
WorkSafeNB announced today several new measures to further protect privacy of New Brunswick’s injured workers.
A continued decline in accident frequency and stabilized claim costs has allowed WorkSafeNB to maintain the average assessment rate for New Brunswick employers in 2016.
WorkSafeNB honoured BASE Engineering Inc. and Graymont (NB) Inc. today for their outstanding achievements in workplace health and safety.
WorkSafeNB is warning New Brunswick employers about people making misleading calls suggesting the employers' safety goods and services are not adequate under New Brunswick’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act.
