I challenge you to do a risk assessment of a routine task, recognize hazards and think of a control. You may save the life of someone you love.

I challenge you to do a risk assessment of a routine task, recognize hazards and think of a control. You may save the life of someone you love.

I was the safety person at our work and still do training - 4 days on hiring. Now comments about how robust our training is makes sense, I use a safety video series then talk about how it applies at this workplace. The article writer is correct though. To be truly effective, hazard assessment has to be embedded at the K-12 level. Also all engineering courses should include ergonomics.

I've been in an industrial workplace for over 20 years. People are much better at wearing their PPE and following work instruction. They are not good at situational awareness and some people suck at looking after their free PPE. The COR program is a great way for businesses to lower WCB costs but implementing a structured reporting program but the workers have to be invested and, as such, I do think workers should be subject to fines for rule violations. Systems must have safety designed in but If it's convenient to follow the rule it's just as easy to not follow the rule. Look at the recent picture of those passengers wearing their masks. Those are designed to be impossible to wear upside down and air is flowing as soon as the masks are released. Slap it on your nose and mouth and it will work. People are oriented each flight and told to follow the attendant yet this design is a failure because there is nothing to indicate it goes over the nose and people still think they assist others before donning their own mask.


http://albertapolitics.ca/2018/04/todays-day-of-mourning-pieties-aside-alberta-workplace-injuries-are-vastly-underreported/