Some people like to buy lottery tickets. I do. Even though our chances of winning big are really quite slim, we still buy those tickets every month in hope of getting lucky. As they say: if you don’t play, you can’t win. The more tickets you buy, the greater your chances — so some of us buy plenty.

Over the last few years. the occupational health and safety profession has made great strides in elevating its profile, both inside and outside Canada.
 
If professional development conferences are any indication, OHS practitioners continue to rise to the challenge of changing workplace dynamics. Year after year, the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) manages to steadily increase attendance to its conference — more than 800 delegates were on hand this year in Niagara Falls, Ont. Safety professionals thirst for knowledge, and trainings are indicative of the challenges they face in the workplace today — and of their success, as more businesses recognize the value of health and safety to the company’s bottom line.

I'm not clairvoyant, but I can see into the future — and so can you.

The second point under the Thinking Driver Fundamental is “anticipate hazards.” A thinking driver first uses his or her eyes to look ahead to find out what’s going on up front, and then analyzes that information to anticipate hazards.

Sometimes I feel like the invisible man — mostly, when I ride the motorcycle.

I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was 13 years old and my start in this business was teaching others to ride. If there is one thing that riding a bike teaches you, it’s that you are on your own out there.

We teach new riders to ride as though no one sees you. Drivers seem to look right through motorcyclists and often steer right into one.