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Our blog discussing workplace safety opportunities in Nova Scotia and around the world.


Use the Risk Mapping Tool to help prevent injuries in your workplace - May 2022
The benefits of a healthy workplace are felt by all. Productivity increases when employees feel supported and safe. Healthy workplaces are welcoming. Heath workplaces are safe. Healthy workplaces are supportive. Healthy workplaces are good for everyone.

Top 5 Best Practice Tips for Successful Return to Work - May 2022
As claims become more complex, with more factors impacting time off due to injury and return to work than ever before, the importance of creating healthy workplaces, both physically and psychologically safe places to work, is increasing.

Leading the way towards psychologically healthy and safe workplaces
Get the resources you need to make your workplace a physically and psychologically healthy and safe one.

WorkShift Podcast: Remembering Westray with Danny Cavanagh and Alex Keaveny
On May 9, 1992, an explosion at the Westray Mine in Pictou County killed all 26 men working underground and changed how Nova Scotians thought about workplace safety forever.

A day to mourn, a commitment to change
When you’ve had personal experience with losing a colleague on the job, the way Andrew Titus, Marine Manager for Mersey Seafoods has, the Day of Mourning takes on a whole new meaning.

Safety Services NS hybrid conference set for April 11 & 12
Safety Services NS hybrid conference set for April 11 & 12

When the clocks fall back
The impact of the fall time change on health.

October: Focus on sprains and strains
Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs): a big term for a major type of workplace injury, often caused when the work doesn’t fit the worker.

Motorists play major role in keeping employees safe in road work zones
A new campaign is reminding motorists that when they’re on the highway, they’re also in someone’s workplace.

Making and keeping safety a priority for Nova Scotia’s young workers
As high school ends, summer job season begins. For many young workers, it could be their first job. As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, workers, their employers, parents and teachers can help reinforce and demonstrate that their safety is the number one priority when it comes to preventing all workplace injury and illness.

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