Westray anniversary looms over NSCC workplace safety event

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    Photo by Adam Cooke -- Kathy Betts, whose father perished in a workplace accident at a coal mine near the Mira Gut area in 1957, shared her family’s story and spoke of her current work as a health and safety officer for the Nova Scotia Construction Safety Organization and the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering, during a visit to the NSCC Strait Area Campus cafeteria as part of North American Occupational Safety and Health Week.

    PORT HAWKESBURY: On a morning that saw many marking the 25th anniversary of the Westray mine disaster, Kathy Betts found herself recalling an unpleasant memory of her own, in front of local community college students and staff. Betts arrived at the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Strait Area Campus on May 9, 60 years to…

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