Congrats to ESCO Coquitlam – winner of WorkSafeBC’s 2013 Ergonomics Innovation contest. One worker said the solution offers “a night and day difference” – quite a review, I’d say!
Category: Health & safety solutions
Forty-two BC truckers took part in “an easy, fun, and inexpensive” challenge posed by the BC Forest Safety Council. They logged their daily steps for a month, competed for prizes, and set their own goals.
A engineering firm encourages its 6000 workers to report every incident and near-miss in an online “learnings database.”
A new, free app from NIOSH uses a multimodal indicator to help users adjust straight and extension ladders to the correct angle – which, in case you don’t know already, is 75.5 degrees (also known as the 4:1 ratio).
BC organizations are invited to share their story on how a manual materials handling task was improved through a physical change in the workplace or through a change in the work process.
Potential hazards. Preventive measures. Which ones are most important for people who work outside?
It focuses less on what happened and more on how and why it happened. The basic question behind it all is: “Do we have the safe processes in place that allow the worker to do the job safely?”
New business owners need guidance and encouragement – and one form of it comes in two new ebooks from WorkSafeBC, available for free download onto an iPad.
When I first saw this course title – Supervisors Boot Camp – I pictured something that would teach supervisors to demand compliance and productivity with the gusto of a drill sergeant. But when I read a little further, I was really happy to see the course encouraged supervisors to use compassion and empathy in their work with staff.
The WorkSafeBC YouTube channel has nearly 14-million video views – and now this popular source of safety information is available on an app for iPhone, iPod touch iPad, along with Apple and Android tablets.
