Media
Safety Gets Coverage in the Media!
Submitted by jessica on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 00:36.So yesterday I had the opportunity to join the CEO and President of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA), Maureen Shaw, the chair of Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario, Steve Mahoney, the Deputy Ontario Minister of Labour, Virginia West, the Vice President of Operations – Canada, Steelcase, Gene Lai, and an intern at IAPA, Sarah Wheelan, for the IAPA's
We Ask the Right Questions... in Portugeuse, Italian and French
Submitted by Rob on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 12:36.We tell hundreds of students, parents, employers, employees and the general public every year to speak up on the job and ask ask ask: Where's the hot equipment is, where might it be slippery underfoot, what kind of equipment shoudl I wear? What are company policies on health/safey, and what happens if someone doesn't follow them?
We've had a great little video out for a short while now called 'Ask the Right Questions", and then we asked ourselves a good question: What about those folks whose first language isn't English? How will they get the important message this video has for them, too?
So, we translated "Ask the Right Questions" into:
See our MySafeWork group in Facebook grow
Submitted by heather on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 12:06.I love how the word about workplace safety and health - about getting respect as employees - is spreading through the power of Facebook! More and more concerned parents, teens, workers, employers from all walks of life are joining our FB group! We have 62 members now - and that's only in 3 months.
'Spiderman' gets the thumbs down for safety stupidity
Submitted by jessica on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 01:37.Sometimes I am just annoyed when I hear the news, such as recent coverage of the "French Spiderman" in New York City. Robert Alain scaled the New York Times skyscraper... with NO safety line! Apparently, the man was trying to bring attention to global warming. (How wall scaling is connected to that cause, I'm still trying to figure out.) But what really upset me was how many news commentators were in respectful awe of his feat; I heard more than one media person declare with gusto, “He didn’t even have any safety equipment on!"
