Health & Safety
Hold Safety Meetings
Regular safety meetings help keep your team informed about health and safety issues while fostering a culture of shared responsibility. By integrating safety discussions into department, management, and company-wide meetings, you can address concerns, track progress, and promote both physical and psychological well-being in the workplace.
Develop Safe Work Procedures
High-risk or complex tasks in your business may require written safe work procedures to prevent workplace injuries. By consulting with your safety committee and workers, you can determine which tasks need documentation and ensure procedures are clear, concise, and effective in minimizing risks.
Day of Mourning: Remembering Those Who Lost Their Lives to Workplace Injuries and Diseases
Read to learn more about Day of Mourning and how your organization can be involved.
Canadas Safest Employers
Launched in 2011, Canada’s Safest Employers Awards recognize companies from all across Canada with outstanding accomplishments in promoting the health and safety of their workers.
Safer Spaces: Passing the Baton to You
While the team is immensely proud of the time and energy they have dedicated towards Safer Spaces, they are cognizant that the real test will come when participants move through the finished product and experience for themselves the course’s relevance and impact.
Safer Spaces: Ready for Launch: go2HR Opens Registration for Safer Spaces Training Course
The blog post in our “Safer Spaces” series, “A Sneak Peek at the New Safer Spaces Training Course”, shared a brief overview of an important new training tool designed for the tourism and hospitality industry – Safer Spaces, which is aimed at reducing workplace sexual harassment.
Safer Spaces: Tourism and Hospitality Risk Factors
Safer Spaces is geared towards the tourism and hospitality industry, which is why one of the course modules focuses on unique industry risk factors – for example, the high percentage of new and young workers, as well as seasonal and temporary workers – employed in the industry.
Safer Spaces: A Sneak Peek at the New Safer Spaces Training Course
The most recent blog post in our “Safer Spaces” series gave voice to the project team, who shared their journey of designing, editing and refining the new Safer Spaces online training course, which is aimed at reducing workplace sexual harassment across the tourism and hospitality industry.
Safer Spaces: Transitioning Online
Our latest blog installment picks up as the project team gets ready to put the course online.
Safer Spaces: Designing Industry-Changing Education
The last blog post in our “Safer Spaces” series, discussed the challenges of designing a training program around workplace sexual harassment, including the most overwhelming part – creating the course from scratch.