Say your company has just been hit with a bunch of very high fines because of safety violations. And these fines are just the latest. There’s clearly a problem—your OHS program isn’t working. How do you fix it? One solution may be to bring in …

Studies have shown that companies that put production before everything else have poorer workplace safety records than companies with healthier safety cultures. The idea is that increased pressure on workers to meet production demands compels them to take shortcuts that put their health and safety …

Workers from an HVAC contractor pressurized pipes with nitrogen gas to check for leaks before installing a cooling system. A welder wrongly believed the test was over and the pipes were no longer depressurized. As he bent over a pipe, a sudden release of gas …

The biggest component of most safety budgets is training. So at many companies, the current economic recession has caused training budgets to come under strict scrutiny. Convincing senior management to invest in training workers and supervisors is a relatively easy task because such training is …

Manitoba Health and regional health authorities are working with federal and provincial government departments, Crown corporations and private businesses to set up H1N1 flu clinics in larger workplaces so that workers and their families who want the H1N1 vaccine can get it quickly and conveniently.