Posted by It’s the day after our launch event and the nuggets of inspiration and insight are just settling in… Be hard on the issues, not the people dealing with them is good advice for those of us committed to making the workplace safer each and every day… as Loretta Bouwmeester said to a room of over…Read more »
Posted by I once worked for a very large organization struggling to improve its safety performance, their Lost Time Claim Rate had levelled and at the time this was the only real safety metric they reported on. So, like many companies in this situation, they embarked on a journey to improve the numbers and drive change. …Read more »
Posted by This upcoming week we celebrate and focus on two important and coincidently relevant topics – occupational health and safety (OHS) and mental health. Interestingly that these two weeks coincide, particularly as we are seeing a shift from not just protecting a worker’s physical safety but the importance and need to protect their psychological safety. Here…Read more »
Posted by Back in 2014 I was working for a very large organization and during a performance review my boss described me as resilient. Honestly, up until that moment I had not heard that word; let alone in the context of myself. It wasn’t long after that that I was diagnosed with Stage II Breast Cancer. My world…Read more »
Posted by On December 15, 2017 Bill 30: An Act to Protect the Health and Well-being of Working Albertans, received Royal Assent. The bill is intended to modernize Alberta’s health and safety system to reflect modern workplaces, improve employee participation, enhance safety, and increase supports for injured workers. The overarching changes in the bill that are of…Read more »
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