Decades of union lobbying results in agreement that sets out when police in B.C. should investigate workplace accidents causing injury or fatality
This past April, the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines and B.C. police agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), locking in a protocol to ensure investigation by police in the case of fatalities and bodily harm at mine sites. While the MOU is new, it has a history that dates back at least a quarter of a century.