The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has developed a new e-course that will provide a general introduction to workplace health and safety to new workers.

Young workers going into a new job will be asking questions about their safety and it won’t hurt for their would-be supervisors to be prepared with helpful answers. Work Safe Alberta’s BloodyLucky.ca, a website dedicated to raise safety awareness among young workers, lists five questions that new and young workers should ask their employer when starting a new job.

Are your supervisors and managers confident they can adequately answer these five life-saving questions?

The busy holiday shopping season was risky business when it came to workplace injury.
 
Although 2008 numbers are not yet final, preliminary Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) of Nova Scotia statistics show 565 workers were injured in the retail sector in November and December. On December 23rd, one of the busiest shopping days of the holiday season, 15 people were injured – almost double the daily average.
 

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.