Alberta Employment and Immigrations has just released a publication call Construction Industry. This is one of 18 Alberta publications featuring statistics and information on employers, employment, wages, demographic descriptions of the workplace and industry trends.

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The July edition of the newsletter is now available by clicking the "Read More.."

The Government of Alberta – Employment and Immigration - Occupational Health and Safety have released a report involving Two Workers Fatally Injured by Explosion in June of 2006. The ACSA has scanned and reproduced the document as presented for our memberships access. The incident involved welding and a shipping container. To download a PDF copy (7MB) of this report CLICK HERE.

Over the summer five incidents at commercial construction sites in Calgary have resulted in two fatalities and shaken public confidence in workplace safety. Hazards concerning the following areas have been predominant in some of these incidents. This ALERT is designed to focus you and your workers on ensuring your site is safe in respect to the hazards in your area. Download the PDF here.

We are pleased to announce that Living Literacy: A Literacy Framework for Alberta’s Next Generation Economy is now available in English and French online at: http://aet.alberta.ca/community.aspx .

Living Literacy: A Literacy Framework for Alberta’s Next Generation Economy responds to what we heard from you about how to increase the literacy skills of Albertans.  We heard that all Albertans play a role in supporting literacy development in the home, community and workplace.