If you drive your own car at work, you’re part of what’s called “the grey fleet” and your car is considered part of your workplace. Sales people, home care workers, and house cleaners are in the grey fleet – and once upon a time so was I.
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Safety failures from around the world, in a video compilation from Maple Industrial Hygiene.
Enter to win a free pass to the conference by leaving a comment, retweeting it on Twitter, or introducing yourself on the Speaking of Safety Group on Facebook. I will draw one winner on Thursday, October 14, 2010. The Make It Safe conference is in Richmond, BC on Oct. 25 and 26, 2010.
Please take 2.5 minutes to watch this life-saving information from ConsumerReports.org.
“Who’s responsible for safety when workers get behind the wheel at work?”
You’ll find answers to this question in “Driver’s Seat” a story in the Sept/Oct 2010 issue of WorkSafe Magazine by Helena Bryan. And just ask Rick Mercer.
“If I was to report every time a patient actually tries to strike out at me or literally tries to claw me or kick me, we’d be drowning in a sea of paperwork,” said Beth, who has worked as a nurse for four years. “There’s huge under-reporting because it’s ‘just part of the job’ – but it shouldn’t be.”
I asked Earl about his training in violence prevention. He said he and his colleagues in the recreation department take seminars on the topic every two years. He said that in 10 years he’s only had one brush with violence. But maybe there’s something about violence that warrants so much preparation against it. It can happen so suddenly, and it’s helpful to think in advance what you would do if you became the target of someone’s anger.
Crew talks are an excellent way to deliver information on the job site. When it’s time to show the crew how to use a new piece of equipment or perform a new process safely, follow these eight steps to communicate your message on the shop floor, outside the site trailer, or at the cash register.
“People love giving and receiving high-fives,” says Canadian Paralympic medallist Josh Dueck, who High Fived 9,307 people on August 27 and 28 in Vancouver, breaking the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD and raising awareness of young worker safety.
The mountain pine beetle invasion has left thousands of trees in B.C. designated as “danger trees” because they have severe lean, root damage, or rotten branches that make them likely to fall. For safety’s sake, these trees are being removed from within striking distance of campsites, picnic tables, outhouses, and parking lots.
