Ensure your ergonomics program successfully eliminates MSDs in the workplace.

In the spirit of National Farm Safety Week, let’s take a look at what we can learn from all of the tasks a farmer tackles in a day, such as driving a tractor, operating power and hand tools, hauling hay and harvesting crops. There are …

Getting senior management to invest in safety programs and initiatives can be a struggle. But at least management seems to understand that it must take steps to prevent workers from being cut, breaking bones or getting entangled in machinery. They seem to have a harder …

The Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine are…

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) released a draft standard Workplace Ergonomics, Z1004 for public review and comment. Deadline for comments: May 16, 2010.

Why should you care? Because the OHS laws require companies to protect workers from ergonomics hazards, such as poor design, repetitive motion and …

February 29th—the one day of the year that doesn’t regularly repeat. That’s why it’s the perfect day to celebrate International Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Awareness Day. In this non-leap year, it’s being observed today, February 26th. The goal: To raise awareness of RSIs, also known …

Ontario thinks it’s the centre of the OHS universe. When you write a Canadian compliance newsletter, you learn this real quick.

Is Ontario’s Claim to Leadership Just a Sham?