Every year Canadian workers experience near misses and minor injuries resulting from slips, trips, and falls, in fact, 20% of all workplace accidents result from these types of incidents. However, these incidents can lead to lost time claims, making it an important consideration in preventing injuries at work and taking steps to prevent them, by reducing the hazards that cause slip and trip type incidents.
Many of these slips, trips, and falls occur during winter months and spike during and after snowfalls or drastic weather changes. Preventing wintertime falls is not a difficult process, it is not complicated. Prevention works with three ingredients, correct clothing, wintertime maintenance and reacting correctly to your surroundings, some of which is changing how you walk, think penguin. However, any time of the year, practicing situational awareness and using informal hazard assessments is key. Check out this month’s safety segment for more.
Walking into a resident’s room and not being able to locate them can be unnerving, however, not being able to immediately locate them can cause a lot of worry and panic. Being prepared for the possibility of such a scenario occurring is important. This month we review code yellow along with some practice scenarios and best practice approaches.
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