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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.

Employees' part in the blame game

Duane Craig writes in his excellent article, Manslaughter on the Jobsite at the blog, The Construction Informer: "There is another side to safety on construction sites... the overwhelming difficulty in getting people to voluntarily comply with safety rules on the job and having enough visibility into what is really going on to make them think twice about not complying."

Move over "Zoomers" - make room for younger workers

CARP - the Canadian Association for Retired Persons - doesn't want to be considered that anymore; they're now Canada's Association for the 50Plus. That doesn't bode well for the younger generation.

According to Mose Znamier, the new executive director of CARP, Baby Boomers - he calls them Zoomers (Boomers + Zip) - are not taking the off-ramp from work like their preceding generation did approaching 65.

 

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