The initiative aims to track diseases and long-term illnesses contracted on the job. The government says it will also help diagnose workplace diseases faster, improve worker compensation, and reduce costs to the healthcare system.

A worker was fatally injured during the erection of retaining walls at a construction site for a four-storey apartment building. 

Of the more than 2,100 inspections carried out, just 6% of employers were found to be in violation of program rules. The government publishes a list of non-compliant employers online.

The company was found to have failed to ensure control switches on a concrete mixer were locked out.

New legislation would let municipalities fund the design and construction of new GO stations.