New business owners need guidance and encouragement – and one form of it comes in two new ebooks from WorkSafeBC, available for free download onto an iPad.

When I first saw this course title – Supervisors Boot Camp – I pictured something that would teach supervisors to demand compliance and productivity with the gusto of a drill sergeant. But when I read a little further, I was really happy to see the course encouraged supervisors to use compassion and empathy in their work with staff.

The WorkSafeBC YouTube channel has nearly 14-million video views – and now this popular source of safety information is available on an app for iPhone, iPod touch iPad, along with Apple and Android tablets.

You can download WorkSafeBC’s interactive ebooks onto your iPad – and once you’ve downloaded them, you can access their content again without an internet connection. This allows safety officers, supervisors, and trainers to use these interactive images, videos, photo galleries, quizzes, and other resources from any location.

We’ve heard it before – but here’s some new, scientific insight into how improved diet and lifestyle change can make a difference. Risk reversal is what’s needed.

NAOSH Week is getting closer ( May 5–11) , so here are a few more ideas on what you can do to engage your workers and the community in thinking about this year’s question: Are you as safe as you think?

A new online course on starting a JHSC committee is available for free to people starting new committees. It’s also a good refresher for existing committees who want to re-focus their energies.

“If signs are not noticed, they won’t convey their potentially life-saving messages.”

“If you tweet or post on Facebook only every several days with gaps of silence in between, you’re not going to build an audience. People will find little value in following you. We work on our Twitter and Facebook sites under that premise, making sure we’re active – and usefully active, not just active for the sake of creating noise.”

Consider the similarities. Both Twitter and CB radio use brief, to-the-point comments and allow people to connect from remote places. You communicate with people you don’t know and form remote relationships – via radio or the Internet – with people you’ve never met in real life.