Tag Archives: Safe Work Environment

When Traffic Safety & Workplace Safety Collide

It’s important for employers to recognize that for many workers, driving is the most dangerous part of their day. Seatbelts are the focus of SGI’s monthly traffic safety spotlight, and this isn’t surprising.  Last year during their seatbelt blitz, police reported more than 4,700 offenses for failing to wear a seatbelt or not using the […]

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Can Suicide Be Considered “Work Related?”…..Of Course It Can

In August of last year, a Saskatchewan man took his own life.  That event in itself is a tragedy, but learning that it was attributed, in part, to his workplace, makes it all the more tragic.  The Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board made a ground-breaking decision when they said there was sufficient information to attribute his […]

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