Consulted To Death

How Canada’s Workplace Health and Safety System Fails Workers by Doug Smith

Twenty years ago governments across Canada adopted- with much ballyhoo-new occupational health and safety laws. Consulted to Death shows how the laws failed to deliver on their promise because, despite their rhetoric, they refused to adequately confront the issue of power in the workplace.

Subject Technology & Engineering/Industrial Health & Safety
Published September 2000
Price $15.95 CDN
Pages 176 pp (Paper)
Dimensions 5.25″ × 8″ × 0.375″
ISBN-10 1894037081
ISBN-13 9781894037082

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About the Author

Doug Smith has written extensively on Manitoba labour and political history and is the author of Consulted To Death: How Canada’s Workplace Health and Safety System Fails Workers and As Many Liars: The Story of the 1995 Manitoba Vote-Rigging Scandal. He has also produced documentaries for the CBC Radio program, Ideas, and worked as an editorial consultant on a number of public inquiries in Manitoba

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