Here’s a quick redux of the Top 5 most-viewed posts of 2011. This is my last post for the year. I’m taking a break for the holidays, and will be posting again in 2012. Please let me know if there are any topics you’d like me to explore in the new year.
This post is a bit of a departure from my usual topic of workplace safety – but it’s something to think about during this season of charity when many people make donations through work. Today I talked to a man who lives in a tent, deep in the bushes above a railway track, and his living conditions are anything but safe.
Operation Red Nose volunteers drive motorists home in their own cars during the holiday season. An average of 55,000 volunteers across the country give 80,000 rides home from Nov. 25 to Dec. 31. In BC, during the weekend of Nov. 25 to 27, 1,374 motorists used it.
“Do you really need to go?” That’s the first question to ask ourselves before we drive in harsh winter weather, according to the folks behind the Shift Into Winter campaign in BC.
“As a supervisor, I do inspections and take feedback from workers to deal with safety issues immediately,” said aquatics supervisor Chris Cordova in his entry to win an Xbox game package in the Raise Your Hand challenge to inspire his peers in 25 words or less. He won – so I asked him to tell me more about his work.
A group of young warehouse workers at Versacold/EV Logistics in Delta found an interesting way to get their coworkers thinking during NAOSH Week about what it’s like to live with an injury.
This new online tool for preventing workplace violence helps you assess your workplace, train workers, and minimize risk. It reminds me of the threats that many people face each day – including this story from a community health nurse in the downtown eastside of Vancouver.
Denise Dodd is a Vancouver musician who told me about a very noisy job she had long ago. It wasn’t playing music that gave her a headache every night – it was selling flowers on a bar circuit in Edmonton back in the 90s.
I visited a conference for construction safety workers who want to “bridge the gap” in their knowledge about the industry’s health and safety issues. At the tradeshow, I chatted with lots of safety product vendors and service consultants, then I went to a seminar called Pre-Inspection to Ensure Your Protection (nice rhyme!)
Jennie Inkster, safety coordinator for the City of Kamloops, completed a set of written emergency procedures for dealing with chlorine leaks. Then she tested them with the local fire department during NAOSH Week 2011. Kamloops earned three NAOSH Awards: in Best New Entry at the national level and in BC’s Local Government category and Best Presentation of Theme.
