Brunswick Mining and Smelting has started a cleanup program at its Belledune, N.B., smelter, according to Canadian Occupational Health & Safety News. Recommendations for the cleanup were made by an independent health study, conducted by Dr. Rosemary Marchant, an occupational health physician from Dalhousie University. Most of the items are scheduled to be implemented this year.
The $1.8-million project to improve the workers’ changehouse, which will begin in the fall, should be completed by the spring of 1991. Another $750,000 will be spent to upgrade six ventilators. Meanwhile, the company is installing devices to reduce noise and has begun hearing protection programs.
Brunswick Mining and Smelting has completed an inventory of areas within the plant that need cleaning up and is monitoring workplace health-risk exposures.
An ongoing strike, however, has limited the participation of Local 7085 of the United Steel Workers of America, which represents 440 employees at the smelter.
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