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Book review: Perceptions can cure audit fatigue |
| How to do your own safety perception survey |
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Written by Mari-Len De Guzman
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You can’t manage what you can’t measure. It’s a premise for a recently released book on conducting safety perception surveys authored by Dennis and Janie Ryan.
Yes You Can…Conduct Your Own Safety Perception Survey, now on its second edition, is a do-it-yourself guidebook designed for companies that want to go beyond traditional safety audits for measuring the effectiveness of their safety programs.
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Alberta promotes workplace AED use |
| Device should be integrated with first aid program |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Work Safe Alberta says the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) at the workplace should be integrated into a company’s first aid program and emergency response plan at the site. In a bulletin issued recently, Work Safe Alberta also urges employers to ensure that the AED can be safely used in their specific work environments.
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Arm wrestler takes on workplace safety challenge |
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Written by Mari-Len De Guzman
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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‘World Arm Wrestling Champion’ is not a title you commonly see among the list of credentials of a typical safety manager. Yet his earlier arm wrestling feats are a significant part of Darrell Belyk’s approach to health and safety management.
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CSA to release new electrical safety standard |
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Written by Michelle Morra
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Changing a light bulb is one thing. Working with live, high-voltage electricity is quite another. For workplaces that don’t understand this, a new CSA standard is about to make it clear.
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Ontario launches Safe at Work plan |
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Written by COS staff
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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Ontario has launched a new four-year plan, called Safe at Work Ontario, which builds on the province’s success in reducing workplace injury rate by 20 per cent, according to a recent press release from the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
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Ontario safety blitz targets new, young workers |
| Inspections mark Safe At Work campaign |
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Written by COS staff
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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Inspectors are now "blitzing" Ontario's workplaces to help eliminate specific hazards to health and safety, targeting workplace with employees aged 24 and under as well as those new to their jobs, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labour.
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New immigrants face higher risk of work injury, says study |
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Written by COS staff
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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Recent immigrants not only have poorer job situations than workers born in Canada, but immigrant men are also twice as likely to sustain workplace injuries that require medical care compared with men born in Canada, according to new research from the Institute for Work and Health (IWH).
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Reader Panel: How much are you worth? |
| Survey shows more than half are satisfied with salary |
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Written by Mari-Len De Guzman
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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In our latest Reader Panel survey we asked our readers to give us some insight into job salaries and responsibilities of today’s health and safety professionals. Although this is not a comprehensive salary survey, it provides some interesting information about health and safety as a profession.
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Newfoundland creates registry for ex asbestos miners |
| Move seen as step towards addressing occupational diseases |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
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A new registry of former employees of the defunct Baie Vert Asbestos Mine in Newfoundland has been created to help identify former mine workers who may have developed asbestos-related diseases and determine their general state of health.
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Pandemic planning results in savings, says study |
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Written by Mari-Len De Guzman
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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Investing in pandemic planning not only benefits worker health, it can positively affect a company’s financial survival as well.
This is according to new research from the Schulich School of Business entitled, Making a Case for Investing in Pandemic Preparedness, which studies the micro-economic impact of an influenza pandemic on individual companies.
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‘Git-R-Done Safely!’ |
| Safety wisdom from W. Edwards Deming and Larry the Cable Guy |
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Written by Alan D. Quilley
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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Unless we’ve been living on a beautiful sandy beach somewhere in the Pacific Ocean where none of what goes on in the world of business really matters, most of us will have heard of the work and approaches of W. Edwards Deming.
Often referred to as the “father of quality,” Deming’s Fourteen Points of Management Obligations have been fundamentally responsible for shaping our thinking about how to manage a quality approach to business.
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