Risk of injury and property damage goes down while employee morale goes up as they see their well-being put above financial costs.
Category: Health & safety solutions
It can lead to increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, and dying prematurely. Too much sitting – at computers, while commuting, and at home – not only leads to back and neck pain, but also has a chemical effect as sugars and toxins build up in in our too-still muscles.
Congrats to ESCO Coquitlam – winner of WorkSafeBC’s 2013 Ergonomics Innovation contest. One worker said the solution offers “a night and day difference” – quite a review, I’d say!
Congrats to ESCO Coquitlam – winner of WorkSafeBC’s 2013 Ergonomics Innovation contest. One worker said the solution offers “a night and day difference” – quite a review, I’d say!
Forty-two BC truckers took part in “an easy, fun, and inexpensive” challenge posed by the BC Forest Safety Council. They logged their daily steps for a month, competed for prizes, and set their own goals.
A engineering firm encourages its 6000 workers to report every incident and near-miss in an online “learnings database.”
A new, free app from NIOSH uses a multimodal indicator to help users adjust straight and extension ladders to the correct angle – which, in case you don’t know already, is 75.5 degrees (also known as the 4:1 ratio).
BC organizations are invited to share their story on how a manual materials handling task was improved through a physical change in the workplace or through a change in the work process.
Potential hazards. Preventive measures. Which ones are most important for people who work outside?
It focuses less on what happened and more on how and why it happened. The basic question behind it all is: “Do we have the safe processes in place that allow the worker to do the job safely?”
