This eight-minute drama made me so nervous as I watched the young dad cutting down trees in a dangerous part of the logging block. See what happens when safety is sacrificed.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Chefs at Mongolie Grill in Whistler, BC, Canada are wearing non-slip shoes you might not expect. All kitchen staff have been wearing the same kind of non-slip shoes for nearly a year: the Crocs Bistro Kitchen Chef Work Shoe – designed for folks in the restaurant, food service, hospitality, and health care industries.
The barista at the coffee shop was wearing sharps-resistant gloves while handling a clear garbage bag that she had already scanned for sharps. She held it away from her body. Then the bag swung and bumped against the wall and the needle, of unknown origin, went into her unprotected knee.
Once there was a boss who had a plan for fooling safety inspectors. One of his former employees told me about it. He was given a broom and told to pretend he was cleaning up if any safety inspectors drove up to their construction site.
Within a single week in May 2011, three workers in BC died after falling from ladders. All fell from relatively low heights. WorkSafeBC reports 13 fatalities and 4,214 serious injury claims from 2001 to 2010 due to falls from ladders.
OSHA reports that 30 workers die each year in the US from heat-related illness, and that thousands more get very sick. To combat this, OSHA has launched a Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers, including a video and other resources (also available in Spanish).
Most people probably think truckers’ greatest safety risk is being in a collision. It isn’t. The most likely way truckers are injured on the job is by falling out of their cabs or off their trailers. To show the impact of these falls, the Trucking Safety Council of BC has a new resource on its […]
You need to listen to us and ask. That’s the message from a retail store manager talking to her company’s CEO – except she doesn’t know he’s the CEO because he’s visiting the store undercover, wearing a bad wig, fake moustache, and nerdy glasses.
A friend told me about a crane that dropped its big, heavy hook on a construction site in downtown Vancouver. The impact shook the ground and sent up such a plume of dust that he thought the load had dropped.
