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Vale funding LU research centre study of mental health in miners

By: Lindsay Kelly for NorthernLife.ca

A new research project at the Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH) at Laurentian University will study the mental health of miners at Vale’s Sudbury operations.

Dubbed Mining Mental Health, the three-year, $400,000 study will be funded entirely by Vale, with voluntary participation from its workers, members of the Steelworkers Union (USW).

Jody Kuzenko, director of Vale’s Ontario Production Services and a CROSH board member, said of disability claims related to mental health from across the province, 78 per cent are short-term, while 67 per cent are long-term.

At Vale’s Ontario operations, one in four disability claims are attributable to mental health ... more

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