News Archive: Workplace Health & Safety

Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

Oct 13, 2011

“We’ve made meaningful progress toward achieving our EHS 2015 goals,” said Cargill Corporate Environment, Health and Safety Vice President, LaRaye Osborne. “We are harvesting the value of our considerable investment in research, people, processes and technologies. As a result, more of our employees and contractors return home safely at the end of their work day, and we are reducing the environmental impact of our operations.” [Click on Logo to learn more]

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Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

“Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Words Can Break Your Workplace” By Theo Kowalchuk, President, 1 Life Workplace Safety and Health Ltd.

Aug 2, 2011

All employers must be aware of new harassment legislation being implemented in Manitoba that places new duties upon them. Specifically, new harassment legislation requiring employers to identify and control psychological harassment (bullying) in the workplace now gives employees more grounds to file a complaint with the Human Rights Commission. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

Canada’s Safest Mines Hail From Vale

May 31, 2011

While the Ryan trophy recognizes safety performance specific to the mines, Vale in Manitoba established new standards of safety excellence across the breadth of its Thompson operations last year. Taken together, the mines, mill, smelter and refinery have improved their combined disabling injury from a frequency rate of 7 in 2000 to an all-time low of 0.7 in 2010. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

Cargill Cares about Farm Safety

Apr 26, 2011

Cargill Limited is proud to announce they are partnering with the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) to be the core supporter of seven Progressive Agriculture Safety Days® this year in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

WCB’s 2010 Annual Report Focuses on Decrease in Injuries, Lower Rates

Apr 20, 2011

“Ongoing injury prevention initiatives helped to decrease the time loss injury rate by 41 per cent over the past decade,” says WCB President and CEO Doug Sexsmith. “The time loss injury rate decreased to an estimated 3.3 per 100 full time workers in 2010, the lowest on record for Manitoba. This means year after year, thousands more workers are coming home safely.” [Click on Pic to learn more]

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Cargill makes major progress toward its 2015 worker safety and environmental sustainability goals

WCB Encourages Manitobans to ‘Tie One On’ this Summer

Apr 11, 2011

The WCB’s latest SAFE Work campaign – Tie One On – reminds everyone of the importance of using injury protection, and points them to the appropriate guidelines and resources to provide information and help prevent falls from heights. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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