by Doug Cook | Jan 21, 2022
January 21, 2022 ‘PLAN FOR 10’ Keep at least 10 feet (3 metres) away from high-voltage powerlines and conductors. If you work around high-voltage equipment, you need to be aware of the safe distance (limits of approach) to stay away from it. This safe Distance applies...
by BC Building Trades | Jan 19, 2022
January 19, 2022 VANCOUVER, B.C. — B.C.’S UNIONIZED CONSTRUCTION SECTOR has raised $622,500 for the province’s flood relief efforts. “Within days of the flooding, local building trades unions were putting the call out across their organizations for donations,” said...
by Doug Cook | Jan 11, 2022
January 11, 2022 WHEN KEY MANDATES of the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) are to provide timely return to work and cost effectiveness, you know somebody is going to get hurt. That somebody, of course, is a worker. Oftentimes, it happens when the injured worker is...
by BC Building Trades | Jan 7, 2022
January 7, 2022 VANCOUVER, BC — FORTY-ONE years ago, four men went to work building one of Downtown Vancouver’s most iconic highrises and never came home. They were carpenters Gunther Couvreux, Brian Stevenson, Donald Davis and Yrjo Mitrunen, who plunged 36 floors to...
by Doug Cook | Jan 5, 2022
January 5, 2022 WHILE SOME CANADIANS might still be scratching their head at the most recent election, there was some good news in the construction sector: two of the largest parties supported amending the Income Tax Act to finally end unfair treatment of skilled...
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