Recent Suncor fatalities ‘devastating’ for survivors of other workplace tragedies
When Alyssa Grocutt’s father died, the funeral home engraved his fingerprints onto a necklace for her to keep as a memento.
Alyssa was at homewith her mother, who was preparing dinner, when a police officer knocked on the door. “I often hear people say, ‘Oh, with new technologies, we must be seeing these numbers go down.’ But we’re not,” says Alyssa, who is now a PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., where she researches the impact workplace injuries and fatalities have on the victim’s family, colleagues, and supervisors.In recent months, a high-profile string of workplace deaths at Suncor, and the resulting criticism of the company by well-known U.S.
“So what happens to the small employer who doesn’t have the same resources as a Suncor? There’s more and more promotion around workplace safety, so what is that puzzle piece that we’re missing?” Wynny Sillito of Calgary says she wishes more people were aware of the ripple effects of workplace accidents and injuries. In 2011, she was a 23-year-old paramedic, part of a team who responded to reports of an accidental chemical release at an oil and gas site near Grande Prairie, Alta. While attempting to assist the worker who had been injured, Sillito herself was exposed and suffered chemical burns all over her upper body.
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