What to do When a WCB Claim Occurs. When WCB claims occur, it often falls to the HR and/or H&S departments to manage claims and assist their injured employee with a safe return to work. Both departments …
PILR – Dr. Gerhard Benadé: What does an Occupational Physician do?
An Occupational Physician (OP) is a doctor who specializes in managing work-related conditions. While some Family Physicians and general practitioners have expertise in treating work-related conditions; an accredited Occupation Physician is an expert at …
Post Injury Loss Reduction (PILR)
When considering Safety Professionals and the work we do, what most often comes to mind is prevention; hazard assessment, audits, safety meetings training, plans, and other actions that are designed to prevent incidents. There is, however, another side to what we do …
Bill 47 – Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act
As 2022 fast approaches, we want to help you prepare for new challenges that will soon be present due to the passing of Bill 47 – Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act. Bill 47, which passed …
Good Enough is not Good Enough: Workplace Safety
Being good enough is acceptable for certain things in life, but in workplace safety, good enough does not make the cut. Addressing hazards that lead to risk exposure which at some point could lead to loss, needs more than ‘good enough. …
Safety Hazards in… a Flower Shop?
A flower store must be a safe place to work…right? Today, I thought I would talk about my favorite place to work other than here at DF Safety. For those of you …
Rationalizing Unsafe Choices
Safety is communicated through training, policies, procedures, and many other standards, giving us the ability to know how to work safely and mitigate hazards. In most cases, a failure to follow existing standards is …
Appreciating Safety
Toolbox talks, workplace policies and procedures, safe work practices, paperwork, inspections, hazard assessments; these are just a few of the safety tasks we carry out every day. Although it may …
Health and Safety Representative (HSR)
Today we discuss Health and Safety Representatives, and the value they add to a company’s health and safety program. Does your business need one? A Health and Safety Representative is a person …
Changing Bad Habits
Habits. We all have them, both on and off the job. Some habits are positive, others not so much. The habits we create have an impact on our lives and the decisions we …