WorkSafeBC needs more clout when it comes to the forest industry

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The B.C. government was preparing to release a progress report on worker safety in forest-product mills earlier this month when an explosion ripped through a wood-pellet plant in Burns Lake, injuring three workers.

The update would have trumpeted how the government is making progress on a series of recommendations to improve workplace safety – changes designed to make sure the circumstances that led to two deadly sawmill explosions two years ago would never be repeated.

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Justine Hunter – Globe and Mail – October 19, 2014.

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