Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
The owner of a Manitoba paving company that employed a 15-year-old who was buried in hot asphalt two years ago has been fined almost $34,000 in the teen’s death.
Blog Post #500 – I Cannot Believe I Made It!
I have finally come to a special time in my writing life, blog post #500! I would like to share with you my feelings about many of the previous articles and to notify the readership on where HRS Group Inc., and Daniel L. Beal, CHSEP, in particular, are going.
Blog Post #495 – Bullying Bosses: When Harassment is Not Discrimination
What legal remedies do employees have if they are verbally or non-verbally bullied by their supervisor or co-workers? In the workplace, bullying can include behaviours such as: damaging your reputation; humiliating you in public; accusing you of lack of effort; calling you names; insulting, teasing, or intimidating you; preventing your access to opportunities; isolating you physically or socially; imposing undue pressure to produce work; setting impossible deadlines; making consistent unnecessary disruptions; failing to give you credit; assigning meaningless tasks; setting you up for failure; or removing responsibility (C. Rayner, H. Hoel, C. Cooper, Workplace Bullying: What We Know, Who is to Blame and What We Can Do, London: Taylor and Francis, 2002).
Blog Post #494 – Day 5 of the CSSE Conference, Calgary, Alberta 2014
This was another day to take in lectures on various topics, which were,
1) An Engaged Workforce: MSD Injury Prevention and Management,
2) Great Safety Leadership: The Only Way to a Zero Injury Culture, and
3) Get a Grip on Safety – An Approach to a Company-Wide Safety Program.