Component Chair Dean Purdy is quoted extensively in a current OHS Canada magazine article on violence and overcrowding in correctional centres across Canada.

Click here to read the OHS Canada magazine article “On the Brink”.

As you know your Component executive has been meeting with the WCB over the past year and a half. These meetings led to important WCB health and safety inspections at all provincial jails.

So far inspectors have visited FRCC where they wrote 11 orders. Inspectors recently visited SPSC and we are awaiting an inspection report.