“Onboarding” is a term used in HR that refers to welcoming a new staff member and making them feel like part of a team. But too often, something goes wrong during new staff orientation.
Category: Training & education
Training focuses on “person-centred care” and aims to cut the risk of violence to workers, while enhancing quality of care for elderly, disabled, and terminally ill patients.
It creates a ripple effect when one student makes one video – from their own personal experience of researching it, writing it, and once they have a script, casting it and acting it out – a generation speaking to itself.
Safety is no laughing matter – but having a laugh can be a great way to start a safety meeting.
Six young workers died in BC in 2013. They are among 128 work-related deaths reported by WorkSafeBC, of which 67 “were the result of occupational disease, mainly owing to previous exposure to asbestos.
“When using any supplied equipment, we were expected to follow the manufacturer’s instructions, and to be aware of them. There was never any good excuse for not following them,” says this worker regarding safely heating an enclosed area, monitoring air quality, and supervision/instruction.
WorkSafeBC’s 2014 Student Video Safety Contest invites drama, comedy, documentary, music video, stop-motion film, claymation, or animation that explores the theme Don’t Let Your First Job Be Your Last.
In the new video below, it’s a farm worker during the harvest. But it happens in all industries – when effective safeguards are not put in place.
Just about everyone who works in film or performing arts will likely, at some point, end up working alone. This new video reminds us about the importance of check-in procedures and the potential dangers facing those who may be working alone.
They’re the creation of 19-year-old Austin Coburn – the 2013 winner of the Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition’s video contest. After the win, Oregon OSHA hired Austin as a summer intern, where he created the videos.
