- So it's Sunday afternoon - my favorite time of the week to doze off on my couch while sluggishly flipping from station to station. Usually, I end up watching some weird public television program that is just boring enough to let me have a great nap. Today however, I couldn't find anything that caught my attention. I watched the end of a football game that the Tennesse Titans easily won and then I stumbled across a bull riding show from LasVegas. Maybe I'm not very cultured - but I have never really seen a bull riding show.
As I sit on my couch and watch the news I can't believe what I am hearing about a tractor trailer losing its load and killing a 53-year-old man on a Toronto highway. When we think about workplace safety we often think about on site jobs but what we fail to recognize is that a large percentage of injuries are the result of traffic accidents.
It's now November and everyone is beginning to feel a little sluggish. It’s usually around October that we start to let our diets go the way of the avalanche.
No one to blame but our festive Canadian calendar, of course. Starting off with Thanksgiving in early October and candy infested Halloween at the end. This month brings on an onslaught of holiday parties and concerts. And the first of December rings in a strict diet of butter, sugar and dense meats. And these are just some of the holidays that my family celebrates!
Six percent of 12 to 14 year-olds in Ontario are injured at work, according to a new study conducted at the Institute for Work & Health.
The organization also surveyed youth in British Columbia, where they found 3.5 percent of tweens and early teens get hurt at work.
The rate of work-related injuries in this age group is comparable to that of 15- to 24-year-olds, the study showed. Work injuries were reported by six per cent of youth surveyed in Ontario and 3.5 per cent in B.C.
