Rob Ellis and Jessica Di Sabatino lost a son and brother in 1999 to a workplace accident: David was 18 and it was his second day on the job. Rob and Jess have been on the lookout for Safety Champions ever since. This is their blog.

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MySafeWork joins Twitter!

Submitted by jessica on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 14:31.

It's official: MySafeWork is now on Twitter - the social media platform that combines instant messaging with micro-blogging and is handy for reaching likeminded folks with real-time messages (and fabulous for use in crisis communications, too, such as Twittering terror in Mumbai recently, and updating the public on the California wildfires a few months back).

Some of the great Twitterers we are now following include:

Dumb and Dumber on YouTube

Submitted by heather on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:58.

Who doesn't love to laugh at a crazy homemade video on YouTube: a cat doing the jig, a sportscaster making an embarrasing blunder, a young guy.... driving his forklift backwards on two wheels??!!

That's right, an Australian 20-year-old thought it would be a hoot to drive his hoon forklift at top speed backwards with the rear wheels off the ground, performing burnouts, and crashing into a concrete pipe...

That was dumb. Deadly dumb.

He then proudly loaded the video onto YouTube... no, really.

That was dumber still.

Bull Riding, Sunday Afternoons & Safety

Submitted by jessica on Sun, 11/09/2008 - 18:48.

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.

Positive Outlook and The Office

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 19:26.

The people who have the best outlook on life and most positive perspective are people who are optimistic - recognizing the positive aspects of each day and treating them as a gift. It is true that we all face days where it’s raining on our side of the street and everyone else seems to have a cloudless sky overhead. Those are days that no one welcomes... but when we choose to look at our own situation with a sunny disposition, it really affects how we perform.

Some Days are Bloodier than Others

Submitted by heather on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 10:33.

I am still reeling from watching BloodyLucky.ca - very upsetting short videos showing young lady with serious burns from chemicals splashed on her face, a deli worker slicing his finger off, a shoe sales girl falling backwards off a ladder... I couldn't get past that. Do I suggest you watch them? Bloody right, I do, and show them to your teenager who's new in the working world... please. Just don't do so just after they, or you, have eaten.


yeah I don't think that law Munro's Safety Apparel 11/04/2009 - 16:02 In my work experience, small Fred Rose 09/10/2009 - 17:57 Hi, Morgan,Absolutely we'll heather 06/01/2009 - 12:52 I’ve been working in the Sylvain Grenier 06/01/2009 - 12:45	View more videos	Workplace Injury is an Inevitable Part of Life: Agree - no one or no company is perfect - accidents will always be a part of society. Somewhat agree - accidents will always be a part of society but we can work on reducing the most tragic accidents. Disagree - every accident is preventable.