University Alberta Researchers say Alberta drastically under-reports workplace injuries

Researchers say Alberta drastically under-reports workplace injuries by Canadian Press, September 26, 2013
A University of Alberta research group says the provincial government is under-reporting workplace injuries. The Parkland Institute says the government only notes injuries that result in lost or reduced work — about 53,000 cases in 2009. But the institute says the actual number of people who get hurt on the job is about 10-times higher than that. [Emphasis added]

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Alberta Environment says the huge green cloud was not toxic even though reportedly the regulator did not see or test it. Alberta Environment spokesperson Ogho Ikhalo: “Our compliance folks, as well as our air quality ambient specialists, were all following up on it. They didn’t see the cloud smoke themselves and nothing was reported (and) no triggers went off within our equipment and monitoring devices.”

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Slides above by Larysa Dyrszka MD, September 2013

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For Occupational Safety and Health Research and Practice in the U.S. Oil and Gas Extraction Industry by NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AGENDA (NORA), October 2011
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Email above from Alberta Health to Jessica Ernst responding to her request to the Council of Canadian Academies that health impacts (not just environmental) caused by hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas drilling activities are studied.