If your company sends its workers into areas where they may encounter potentially dangerous wildlife, here's a heads up: occupational health and safety charges could be laid if one of your employees is killed by a wild animal. A Yellowknife, NT - based company is facing five OHS charges laid by the Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board after a grizzly bear killed a worker. Quebec resident Jean-François Pagé, 28, was fatally mauled by a mother grizzly bear while staking mining claims about 200 kilometers north of Whitehorse in April 2006. He was within five meters of a bear den occupied […]
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