Workplace Case Study, Stave Lake Quarry, Teaching Materials
Designed for secondary students and union orientation classes, this case study guides participants to identify occupational health and safety concerns at the Stave Lake Quarry leading to the untimely death of a new and inexperienced worker.
Participants will make their own connections between occupational health and safety concerns in the Stave Lake Quarry death with those in their own workplaces.
Participants will evaluate the role of the Criminal Code of Canada in establishing a safe and healthy workplace.
This activity is rooted in several important concepts about workers and adult learners. Two 1993 studies of teaching labour history to unionists revealed such workers were actually interested in labour history for more than pragmatic reasons. They also sought to “improve themselves,” by learning more about their role in society. They appreciated opportunities to connect themselves as part of a larger whole: the labour movement in history.
The teaching materials include several external documents to be used in conjunction with student discussion.