Occupational Health And Safety Dept: "I know who they are, but now to make this public, it could potentially put them out of business," provincial Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk said Thursday. On Wednesday, acting auditor general Merwan Saher called on the province to get tough on this "small, but high risk" group of employers, who have higher than average rates of workers with disabling injuries in many cases, three to four times the provincial average and consistently fail to abide by orders from Occupational Health and Safety. The Alberta government says it wants to release the names of companies with poor safety records, but it needs legal approval first to ensure no privacy laws are broken. "I want to be satisfied 100 per cent that they indeed fall into that category because I would hate to put a business and hence, workers out of work by saying, 'Whoops, I made a mistake.'" As
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