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The $6 Billion Question

How do we change the fact that most workers lack the mind-set that safety is part of their ‘real job’? [That's the $6 billion question]... so writes the Australian blog, Safety Concepts. You'd think it would be the easiest thing in the world to motivate employees about: after all, it is their own lives and limbs we're talking about. Their own health and wellness - and given the human instinct for survival and selfishness, Workplace Safety should be an easy sell.

But it isn't. Obstacles to staff being keen about safety could include:

MBA School Teaching Workplace Safety as "Golden Asset"

Teaching about workplace health and safety at the Business Graduate School level... now there's a GREAT idea!!

That's exactly what  a new partnership between the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the Williams College of Business at Xavier University in Cincinnati, is achieving.

What do Ethics Have to Do with Safety?

"When there is a high moral code or standard at the office employees feel safer, more relaxed, less pressured and work more easily...." Wise words from one of the workplace safety blogs I follow, Workplace Safety Tips.

I always include the message of "Respect" in my talks with high schools and corporations over the years  - taking the conversation beyond WHIMS and hard hats to creating a workplace culture of employer respecting employee, and visa versa.

Immigrant men twice as likely to get hurt at work

As if it isn't hard enough to get a decent job in a new country, recent stats bear out that immigrant workers are more likely to get hurt at work than native-born employees. Two new studies by the The Institute for Work & Health (IWH), an independent, not-for-profit organization, compare work conditions and injury rates between immigrants and workers born in Canada, and come up with some startling conclusions.

See our MySafeWork group in Facebook grow

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.

 

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