- This week the use of hand-held cellphones, Blackberries, other PDAs, iPods and other MP3 players, and handheld GPS systems while driving became illegal in Ontario, where I live and work. Now only hands-free devices can be used in the new "distracted driving" law.
I've long been a fan of the great, progressive work done by Work Safe BC... but now they've outdone themselves with an amazing, redesigned website that is social networked to the max - for their Raise your Hand campaign aimed at teens primarily and it includes:
If I were to ask you what "Gap Time" was - you probably wouldn't be able to tell me what it was. In fact, up until a couple of years ago I probably couldn't have told you what it was either. Recently, I was at an assembly where I asked the question about Gap Time to students, executives and unions leaders. Nobody, except two young Mexican college students were able to correctly give a definition for "Gap Time" which is - the period of time where new immigrants learn to adjust to language, and culture.
Over the past 10 years I have been astounded to realize how many workplace hazards really exist in our "safe" and "comfortable" society. While, I had been to hundreds of gas stations and hundreds of fast food joints I must admit that I rarely thought about who the person was that was closing up and how dangerous a job that could be.
In the past decade however I have been educated about the dangers that some of these jobs pose. In fact, rarely do I frequent one of these establishments where I don't look at the young employees and wonder if they are being left alone to lock-up, or if their employer cares enough about them to put proper protocols and buddy systems in place.
