Canadian Occupational Safety

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Take a look at videos of all the gold winners here: www.safestemployers.com/video Standing vs. sitting Even after taking into account a wide range of personal, health and work factors, people who primarily stand on the job are twice as likely as people who primarily sit at work to have a heart attack or congestive heart failure, found a recent study. In fact, the unadjusted risk of heart disease among people who stood on the job was slightly higher than among daily smokers. www.cos-mag.com/standing Webinars The COS webinar library is filled with on-demand topics, such as arc flash, safety culture, fall protection and ISO 45001. The one-hour sessions are delivered by health and safety experts from across Canada. Keep watching for new topics added regularly. www.cos-mag.com/CPDCentre Follow us: twitter.com/cosmagazine Join our group: Canadian Occupational Safety Culture Shock Shawn Galloway, president of ProAct Safety, presents a monthly video on safety culture. Make sure to check out the latest video on providing safety feedback and whether or not it creates engagement or disengagement. Global OHS Marianne Levitsky, president of Workplace Health Without Borders, discusses what we can do in Canada to improve the plight of occupational disease around the globe. 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Edwards and Norm Keith Professional Development Glyn Jones Safety Culture Dave Fennell CUSTOMER SERVICE Tel. 416-609-3800 (Toronto)/ 1-800-387-5164 (outside Toronto) Fax 416-298-5082 (Toronto)/ 1-877-750-9041 (outside Toronto) customersupport.legaltaxcanada@tr.com CANADIAN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY'S EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Dave Gouthro, CRSP, CHSC, CHSO Occupational Health & Safety Consulting David Johnston, CRSP Director, EHS, Toronto Hydro-Electric System Ltd. Eldeen Pozniak, CHSC, CHSMSA, CRSP, Director, Pozniak Safety Associates Inc. Guy Chenard, CRSP, C.E.T. Safety Consultant Carolyn Wisdom, CIH, CRSP Owner, Wisdom Consultants Ron Saunders , Director of Knowledge Transfer & Exchange Institute for Work & Health Dan Strand, CRSP, CIH, ROH Director, Prevention Field Services, WorkSafeBC AMANDA SILLIKER FROM THE EDITOR More videos at cos-mag.com/video.html visit us online cos-mag.com THOMSON REUTERS CANADIAN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY ON NOW ONLINE EXCLUSIVES LATEST VIDEOS Printed in Lemons into lemonade W hen I was a very little girl, my mother and I lived in Miramichi, N.B. (which was then known as Newcastle). Every day, multiple times per day, we would drive by this monstrous pulp and paper mill to and from our home. It was huge, smelly, an eye sore and it gave me asthma — which went away as soon as we moved to Moncton, N.B. Although I had no idea what a "mill" really was, I remember being fascinated by the seemingly endless mountains of woodchips and clouds of smoke. At just four years old, I wasn't thinking much about what was going on inside the mill. A few years later, at that very same mill, Candace Carnahan lost her leg in a conveyor belt incident. She was only 21 years old at the time. Carnahan's attitude toward the incident was beyond impressive — she didn't play the blame game, she didn't feel sorry for herself and she got to work on how she could help prevent these types of incidents in the future. (See page 8 for more.) I met Robb Parrott at the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering conference in Vancouver last year. He had a booth with a big sign that read "Save a pipefitter." I walked up to him and said, "I want to save a pipefitter," and he introduced me to his new flange lock product. He proceeded to tell me about all the incidents he had seen as an operator in Alberta's oil and gas industry that occurred because a flange was taken apart when it was not safe to do so. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, Parrott and his buddies met in his garage — beer and MIG welder in hand (but not at the same time of course) — and the flange lockout device was born. (See page 33.) His goal is to make flange lockout the new normal — just like electrical lockout — and he is meeting with regulators as we speak, so you might be seeing more of this device soon. The winners of Canada's Safest Employers awards have often turned lemons into lemonade. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a serious safety incident to get an organization to focus on safety, but after many, many years of working hard to turn the culture around, they can find themselves a winner of Canada's Safest Employers award. (See page 16.) For example, one winning company was seeing too many muscle strain injuries, so it changed an entire manufacturing process to mitigate the hazard. Another had a lot of work to do after an $80,000 Ministry of Labour fine in 2010. Yet another was having issues with its subcontractors and had to develop an entirely new program for managing them. Plus, almost all of the winners talk about complacency and the challenge of not letting it get the best of their organizations. Even after they take home the coveted hardware, there are still "lemons" popping up here and there, because safety is a journey. Even the judge in the Suncor tailings pond case found a way to use the tragedy to prevent future similar incidents with his creative sentencing. (See page 6.) So don't let your seemingly endless list of safety challenges get you down. Learn from your mistakes, conquer each issue one at a time, work on motivating your staff and you never know, your accomplishments might land you in the pages of this very magazine one day — Canada's Safest Employers award in hand. Amanda Silliker, Editor amanda.silliker@thomsonreuters.com

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