“Do you really need to go?” That’s the first question to ask ourselves before we drive in harsh winter weather, according to the folks behind the Shift Into Winter campaign in BC.
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“As a supervisor, I do inspections and take feedback from workers to deal with safety issues immediately,” said aquatics supervisor Chris Cordova in his entry to win an Xbox game package in the Raise Your Hand challenge to inspire his peers in 25 words or less. He won – so I asked him to tell me more about his work.
A group of young warehouse workers at Versacold/EV Logistics in Delta found an interesting way to get their coworkers thinking during NAOSH Week about what it’s like to live with an injury.
This new online tool for preventing workplace violence helps you assess your workplace, train workers, and minimize risk. It reminds me of the threats that many people face each day – including this story from a community health nurse in the downtown eastside of Vancouver.
Denise Dodd is a Vancouver musician who told me about a very noisy job she had long ago. It wasn’t playing music that gave her a headache every night – it was selling flowers on a bar circuit in Edmonton back in the 90s.
I visited a conference for construction safety workers who want to “bridge the gap” in their knowledge about the industry’s health and safety issues. At the tradeshow, I chatted with lots of safety product vendors and service consultants, then I went to a seminar called Pre-Inspection to Ensure Your Protection (nice rhyme!)
Jennie Inkster, safety coordinator for the City of Kamloops, completed a set of written emergency procedures for dealing with chlorine leaks. Then she tested them with the local fire department during NAOSH Week 2011. Kamloops earned three NAOSH Awards: in Best New Entry at the national level and in BC’s Local Government category and Best Presentation of Theme.
If you put people first, everything else will fall into place – including safety. That’s the message from Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks who helped grow the company from 28 stores to more than 15,000 on five continents.
It was exciting to see history in the making on Oct. 27 when 23 CEOs and senior managers signed BC’s first safety charter – similar to documents signed in Newfoundland Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.
NAOSH Week organizers suggest different ways to participate – one of which is “setting new goals for workplace health and safety.” That’s what the health and safety committee did at Tourism Whistler, winner in BC’s NAOSH Week Tourism/Hospitality category.
