Valentine’s Day: Get hot on safety

Valentine’s Day’s is almost upon us, hurrah! But this year, the swarm of celebrity chefs that have been emerging, and rumours of a triple dip recession, are likely to send us skipping to the kitchen to prepare a candle lit meal for two. We could have a problem,...

Choosing Safety [Infographic]

Choosing Safety can be challenging! Anyone employing other people needs to consider Choosing Safety as part of the process. Certainly here in BC, there are legal requirements to be met even if you only have one employee (I suggest you get in touch if you don’t...

Chainsaw Safety [Infographic]

We’ve recently been given the opportunity to promote Chainsaw Safety. Not really knowing too much about chainsaw safety (except that it’s one of the scenarios in the OFA1 course) we went digging for statistics. Here’s what we came up with. Chainsaw...

Christmas at Work – Safety Guide

Let’s face it – most of us spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week at work. So it’s natural we want ‘Christmas at work’ even if we don’t want Christmas day at work! Here are some guidelines for having a safe Christmas at work. Christmas...

Concussion in Children

A recent report in the journal ‘Pediatrics’ suggests that emergency room doctors and GPs are having difficulty in diagnosing and dealing with concussion in Children. Head & spinal injuries can be very significant and are taught in all red cross first...

Helmets Save Lives

or at least, improve them a lot and reduce the number of broken bones! I was recently, rudely reminded of this fact when I had cause to need mine… and then by another chance event which helped to remind me that ‘helmets save lives’ and ‘it...