VICTORIA — The B.C. Coroner's Service is urging people to wear seatbelts after a study of fatal crashes in the Interior found too many people weren't buckled up.

The study of 85 deaths from 2010 found only 47 per cent of the people involved were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released the results of its inspection blitz on access equipment and fall protection safety at construction sites. According to results, close to 3,000 orders were issued under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, including more than 200 stop-work orders.

Wear your safety glasses. It’s a simple rule, and one that workers obey more than ever thanks to awareness campaigns, enforcement and the wide array of technologically advanced, funky-looking protective eyewear on the market today. Yet many Canadian eyes remain unprotected, with injuries occurring at an alarming rate. A recent study found that 60 per cent of workplace eye injuries result from not wearing eye protection.

Peter Hollett, a 27-year safety professional, remembers well when buying safety equipment for the workplace meant little more than getting safety gloves for the shop floor personnel.

“Twenty years ago, workers in many firms had to make do with what was provided them. The gloves may or may not be the right size and on occasion may not even be the right type of gloves for the job at hand,” said Hollett, safety manager for Cameron Process Systems, a company in Calgary, and a COS Safety Leader of the Year Award recipient.