There's a workplace injury every 15 minutes.

Remember when no one used seatbelts? Now it feels strange to put the car in drive without one. Workplace injuries should be just as socially unacceptable.

There are more than 32,000 workplace injuries a year in Nova Scotia. That's one every 15 minutes. Of those, 8,200 or so put the worker off the job. But can you think of the last time you heard about one? Meanwhile, about 5,000 Nova Scotians are injured in traffic accidents. And you can almost certainly picture those headlines, hear those traffic reports, remember all the chatter about "how the roads are."

We think about traffic all the time. But we almost never think about workplace injury. Not until it's too late.

We can all do something to prevent workplace injury. If you don't do something, who will?