Workplace death rate down two-thirds in B.C. since 1990

VANCOUVER — The rate of workers being killed on the job through injury is falling in British Columbia, including in some of B.C.’s high-risk sectors such as forestry and construction.

There is no single factor for the decline, but improvements include an enhanced workplace safety culture, increases in training programs, the advent of industry safety associations and increased public scrutiny, say industry groups and the province’s chief workplace safety agency, WorkSafeBC.

The groups say continuing vigilance, more sophisticated approaches to determine root causes of unsafe work incidents and improving workplace safety culture is needed to drive death rates down further.

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