Many occupational health and safety laws and regulations are on the books in many countries, designed not to take away freedoms in how you choose to do your job, as much as to protect the company and fellow workers when an incident occurs at the workplace that may result in an injury or the worker [...]
It always seem to be very interesting. A great study in human nature can be found simply by looking at driving habits on the first day of a seasonal weather change. While some seem to suggest that global warming could eliminate seasonal climate changes altogether, the reality is that at this point and for the [...]
I wrote here in an earlier post about safety officers and hw they are sometimes (erroneously) considered expendable when it comes time to streamline staff during a rough economic patch. Sometimes, profits came before safety and safety can be an afterthought with somecompanies. Well, here we have another example of this condescension of sorts, when [...]
Most of the world has been through a rough recession in the past few years. Some countries are still recovering, while others seem to be on more solid footing five years after the worldwide financial crash of 2008. And many of us remember when things got really bad in the first part of 2009 and [...]
Some of the bravest men and women we could possibly know live among us - they are called "first responders." Specifically, we are referring to firefighters - those men and women who willingly put their lives on the line to save others -many of whom they have never met and may not ever meet if [...]
Whether you know it or not, or even realize it or not, workplace bullying and workplace violence can be, and is, a real problem in may office environments. In my last post, I addressed the realities of this topic and a couple of amazing statistics about this by-product of a toxic workplace. First, 75 percnt [...]
We all have been here at one time or another. Maybe it happened in primary or elementary school. Maybe junior high. Maybe high school - maybe even college. We get pushed off the swings. We get our shoulder bumped while walking down the hall. We get into a staring contest with someone we just don't [...]
