employers
What do Ethics Have to Do with Safety?
Submitted by Rob on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 09:36."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
Submitted by Rob on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 10:30.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.
