Depending on how you think, government is either the greatest thing since sliced bread or it's the worst threat to human rights and decency. And there is really no middle ground here. Government can be like the New York Yankees - you either love them or hate them; there is usually no neutrality with them. [...]
You gotta love being an independent contractor. No, really, you do. Trust me on this. There is something liberating about being your own boss, seeting your own hours, choosing who you work with and for what salary or hourly rate. [Image courtesy of Flickr user Nathan via a Creative Commons license] But there is [...]
Due diligence. It is a catch-all phrase to end all catch-all phrases. There is no question that the term "due diligence" is prevalent not only in many occupational safety regulations and in many defenses in court, but such a term has been difficult to codify. Many courts in North America have had this issue before [...]
Water can be a vital tool or cause of issues in safety. It is as prevalent in our world as the air we breathe. It has tremendous versatility in terms of the many ways that it can be used to benefit us and to harm us if mishandled. It is considered one of the four [...]
Talk about dangerous work. When it comes to always working around flammable materials like oil or natural gas - adding in the pressure that those liquids are under as oil and gas companies pump the ground to extract that "black gold" - and there are very few occupations out there that are so dangerous on [...]
There is little doubt now that, with the advancing technology in the oil and gas exploration industry, there is a new energy boom in North America. From the Bakken oil shale fields in North Dakota, to shale around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, and of course the new resources in western Canadian provinces like Alberta, British [...]
Sumertime is a fun time for many families, but it is also a very active time in terms of safety and staying healthy. While many families use this break from school to head out on summer vacation trips, there are many families that also have children that are of age to be working (aged 15 [...]
In many parts of Canada and a wide swath of the U.S., the heat has not really descended on people yet as the calendar turns to June. However, temperatures have been rising steadily, and for some of us, we either work outside or we are safety officers in charge of monitoring the safety and health [...]
The Campbell Institute did a good thing when it did research and prepared a report about leading indicators in workplace health and safety. A good leading indicator - even a mediocre one - can often be a better predictor of future incidence risk on a work site than many of the best "lagging metrics" that many [...]
In a previous post, I wrote about the concept of safety-training videos, discussed their benefits and tried to bust the primary obstacle to making safety-training videos, and why it may be useful to make your own instead of using stock video training resources. Now that we've given you the tools and ammunition to approach you [...]
