Canada is entering a new reality. In just a few short months, one of the drugs that has been long considered illegal in Canada, will soon be legalized, taxed and regulated. Whether you believe that it is a "gateway" to stronger, more addictive drugs (where there is some data providing conflicting information) or not, the [...]
Legal cannabis is coming to Canada in a few short months. It's time for us to get ready and understand the ramifications and expectations of this new reality of having legal, regulated and restricted access to cannabis products all across the country. Now that the new reality is here, its time for all of us [...]
In the United State, cannabis is creating a societal civil war. In Canada, the country is finally surrendering to cannabis. For the next several posts here, I will be looking to educate all of you about the just-passed Cannabis Act in Canada, which takes effect October 1. At the rates in which Canadian residents use cannabis, [...]
All around North America over the last several years, there has been a big push for higher minimum wages to a "living wage," headlined by the #Fightfor15 labor "strikes" at many retail and fast-food establishments in various cities. Some of the various demonstrations in support of this have paid off in many places, as several [...]
Hello, and Happy New Year. We took a bit of a sabbatical for the holidays, but we are back and ready to go for a dynamic 2018, after a full year of significant change in the political winds - and in the workplace-safety arena - in both the U.S. and Canada. This year, I've decided [...]
Have you done an analysis of the hazards in your worksite and cross-referenced those hazards with related workers-compensation losses ove the last couple of years? If not, if you had 100 percent of safety resources available to you, and you note that 5 percent of the hazards are high-risk, and 95 percent of them are [...]
yes, we're dividing your workplace into four possible safety quadrants. Hopefully your workplace actually only is in one of these, or is working toward it. Vladimir Ivensky wrote a piece in Professiona Safety magazine about safety, and how perception can often mean everything in terms of hazards and risks in a workplace. I've written a series [...]
Do the math. That is one of the familiar expressions we all hear. It's all about connecting the dots and coming to a natural, logical conclusion. Do the math. Having a logical conclusion to safety is a challenge, but Vladimir Ivensky tried to make it simple in his recent Professional Safety magazine article about determining the [...]
There are times when it is right to stand o principles and not give in. There are times when compromise is the prudent way, and it is useful to stay true to your values without compromising away those principles that you hold so firmly. But there is acquiescence. And there is the U.S. Congress, but [...]
Sometimes we lose sight of the truth, or the relative subjectivity of truth. There are facts, there is the truth, and there is how we each look at those that determines our existence. And oftr, our perspectives and biases wil presnnt to us a "different" version of the truth. In safety, multiple perspectives can be [...]
