It’s been a week of explosions in our neighbor to the south – in fact, in only four days the U.S. has seen people die and suffer horrible injuries during the Boston Marathon due to two bombs, and today a Texas fertilizer plant blew up (reason yet unknown) leaving many homeless, wounded and …
I just got back from talking with students, parents and teachers at the Catholic Peel Technology and Skills Competition today in Brampton, Ontario. It was very impressive to see 700 Grades 4 to 6 students sitting at computer screens building robotic models; they were so excited to be innovative and …
Don MacKinnon is the President of the Power Workers’ Union (PWU), which represents more than 17,000 workers working in Ontario’s electricity production and delivery industry, including employees at Hydro One, Bruce Power, Ontario Power Generation to name a few of their 50 employers.
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A friend of mine just got back from her third trip to Cuba, during which she participated in a small tour called “Reality of Cuba” held by the resort tour operators after a couple of bad weather days were making the tourists restless.And reality it was – of the harshest, third-world…
Report EVERYTHING!! That is the right thing to say to employers who want to lower their incident ratio and save lives.
Changing workplace cultures begins by giving people the freedom to report all incidents.
The very best companies have gone one step further with workplace accident prevention; they…
I just read this really interesting article in Canadian Business Magazine, called “Stoned with a Power Shovel” by Marzena Czarnecka. The claim is that 40% share of the workforce at key oilsands sites are found to be drug users. “Statistics like that and the safety issues involved…
My name is Douglas Campbell. I am a third year student at the University of Guelph, studying Environmental Engineering. In my years since high school, I have had a variety of work experiences ranging from a restaurant to a factory to the public sector.
Over time I have found that as I received positions…
Don Levy wants to help immigrants and youth learn how to ask tough questions on the job – questions that could save them life or limb – and he knows first-hand that it isn’t easy to do. As an 18-year-old who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica to attend university in Toronto, and has stayed in the GTA …
There are a lot of “slow” movements springing up. To the best of my knowledge, the first of these movements was the “slow food” movement which officially began in Paris in 1989. People from more than 15 nations gathered to launch this attack on the way that food, and all that was traditionally …
I am honoured to be appointed to one of the new tasks groups created by the government of Ontario, as part of the recommendations of the Expert Advisory Panel on Occupational Health and Safety.Each of the two tasks groups – one devoted to Vulnerable Workers and the other to Small Businesses –…
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