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Protecting women’s reproductive healthAs more women enter the mining industry, better strategies are needed to protect them from reproductive hazards in the workplace

As more women enter the mining industry, better strategies are needed to protect them from reproductive hazards in the workplace

By Dinah Zeldin

March 17, 2025

WSP’s Courtney Gendron on site doing an occupational exposure assessment. Courtesy of WSP

When Nancy Wilk became pregnant in 1989, she was concerned about exposures to reproductive hazards in the workplaces she visited as part of her role as an inspector for Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, including visits to mines and mineral processing facilities.

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