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November 3, 2009

image E-News for November 3, 2009
Highlights:
    • New Personal Protective Equipment web section
    • OHS Guideline updates
    • Influenza prevention
    • 2 new bulletins for the fishing industry
    • WorkSafe Magazine November/December 2009

October 13, 2009

image Halloween Safety 2009
Highlights:
    • Halloween costume fire safety
    • Halloween driving safety tips
    • Halloween candy
    • The Halloween safety game
    • Halloween property safety check

October 8, 2009

image E-News for October 8, 2009
Highlights:
    • Grapple yarder accident investigation
    • OHS Guidelines update
    • Graphic posters for the construction industry
    • Four new bulletins
    • Student WorkSafe video "Evolve"

September 11, 2009

image E-News for September 11, 2009
Highlights:
    • 2009 Lieutenant Governor Awards for Public Safety
    • OHS Regulation & Guideline updates
    • Five new bulletins
    • Preventing injuries to casino card dealers
    • Resource roads demonstration project

June 23, 2009

image Summer Safety Tips
Highlights:
    • Know any young people working at summer jobs?
    • Online water safety quiz
    • Preventing heat stress at work
    • Summer driving tips
    • Sun awareness program for the prevention of skin cancer

June 2, 2009

image E-News for June 2, 2009
Highlights:
    • Disease prevention: It's in your hands
    • OHS guideline updates
    • Stay in the cab, stay alive
    • 2009 student video contest winners
    • Health and safety for small- and medium-size food processors

April 21, 2009

image E-News for April 21, 2009
Highlights:
    • Concrete pump hose accident investigation
    • OHS guideline updates
    • Day of Mourning
    • Controlling Exposure: Protecting Workers from Infectious Disease
    • Five new bulletins

February 10, 2009

image E-News for February 10, 2009
Highlights:
    • Skidder accident investigation
    • Proposed amendments to policy on variable shift workers
    • Eight new Hazard Alerts
    • WorkSafe Bulletin: Soaker pads are not for repositioning
    • January/February issue of WorkSafe Magazine

2008 E-News

2008 E-News:
  • December 16  Featured: A safe and healthy 2009.
  • December 2  Featured: A safety message for the holiday season.
  • October 28  Featured: Forklift crushes worker.
  • October 23  Featured: A Halloween safety message.
  • September 10  Featured: Confined spaces: safe yesterday, deadly today.
  • June 16  Featured: Summer safety tips.
  • June 3  Featured: Lone worker protection.
  • April 22  Featured: Power lines---would you have recognized the danger?
  • March 11  Featured: Housekeeping in woodworking.
  • February 6  Featured: "It was raining rocks!"

2007 E-News

2007 E-News:
  • December 18  Featured: A Safety Message for the Holiday Season.
  • October 23  Featured: A Halloween Safety Message.
  • September 20  Featured: Worker killed while venting tanker.
  • June 28  Featured: Preventing heat stress at work.
  • June 19  Featured: OHS Regulation CD presentation.
  • June 5  Featured: Saw blades: use a guard, save your fingers.
  • May 28  Featured: Ten WorkSafeBC videos added.
  • April 17  Featured: Does the house you're working on contain asbestos?
  • March 13  Featured: Garbage truck strikes overpass. Driver crushed.
  • February 6  Featured: Young construction worker falls from balcony.
  • January 30  Featured: Toolbox meeting guides for construction.


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