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- Arrange meeting places
- Arrange out-of-area contacts
Everyone in your family and your workplace should know where the meeting place is. Planning secondary evacuation routes from high rise buildings can be challenging. Check with the building manager to find more information about evacuation plans.
Keep an out-of-area contact card in your wallet. These cards should have the name and number of your out-of-area contact on one side and your meeting places on the other. Go to www.myepplan.com to download the cards and fill them out.
Looking to connect with loved ones? Texting uses less cell phone power than calling, but messages may be delayed. If you have access to internet use Skype and Facebook.
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During a suspected asthma attack it is best not to give anything by mouth, except assisted ventilation in its worst stages. If this person is known to have a respiratory ailment and carries their own medication, follow the manufacturers instructions and assist the person to take it.
DO NOT delay in activating emergency services! Call 911 and tell the dispatcher that the person is having difficulty breathing. You can do something called SUPPORTIVE MEASURES. Be at their side, coach them in their breathing and ensure that they GET OXYGEN! If your workplace has an emergency oxygen unit get it on this person ASAP!
Loosen tight clothing around the chest and waist, make them comfortable, sit them straight up and slightly bent forward while supporting them, and most of all REASSURE them that help is on the way.
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Issue
Child passenger safety
Motor vehicle injuries are a leading cause of injury-related death for Canadian children. Action must be taken to reduce the risk of crashes. Steps must also be taken to reduce the risk of injury when a crash occurs.
Problem
Low booster seat use
Car crashes kill more children than any other cause of injury in Canada. What amounts to over two classrooms of children die in cars each year, and thousands more are injured.
Solution
Mandatory booster seat use
When installed correctly, putting a child in a car seat reduces the chances of injury or death by as much as 75 per cent and booster seats provide up to 60 per cent more protection than seat belts alone. Children must be in the correct car seat for their stage of physical development in order to be protected.
While at least 75 per cent of young children are restrained in car seats, according to Transport Canada research shows that nearly three-quarters of Canadian children between ages four to nine are not protected by booster seats.
Car seats can reduce the risk of death by 71 per cent for infants under age one and 54 per cent for children by ages one to four.
Car seats reduce the risk of hospitalization by 67 per cent for children age four and under.
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Employers know that education and training are critical to the well-being of employees. Providing health and safety training is one of the most important responsibilties an employer has. Not only does effective training meet WorkSafeBC requirements, but it builds safety awareness within a workforce and fosters a healthy safety culture. This in turn can prevent injuries, which protects workers and keeps overall costs down.
Everyone needs training: Owners, supervisors, and workers.
- Step #1 Identify training needs
- Step #2 Prioritize training needs
- Step #3 Choose your training provider
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The first 4.5 magnitude quake hit shortly after 5 p.m. local time Wednesday followed by the larger 5.1 magnitude temblor at 6.47 p.m. With dozens of aftershocks it was the deadliest series of quakes in Spain since 1956m with over 80 percent of the buildings damaged and over 3,500 people homeless.
A number of devastating quakes have struck across the globe in recent years — from Japan to Chile to Haiti — sparking fears that our planet is due to experience even more catastrophic temblors in the near future.
#1 World’s Largest Earthquake
Chile, 1960 – Magnitude 9.5
Approximately 1,655 people were killed during the largest earthquake ever recorded. Thousands more were injured, and millions were left homeless. Southern Chile suffered $550 million USD in damage. The quake triggered a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hawaii, 138 in Japan and 32 in the Philippines. The earthquake ruptured where the Nazca Plate dives underneath the South American Plate, on the Peru-Chile Trench.
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The goal of the North American Occupational Health & Safety Week (NAOSH) is to focus the attention of employers, employees, and the general public on the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace, at home and in the community.
What are you doing? Why should you get involved?
NAOSH week provides an opportunity to focus, reinforce and strengthen your commitment to health and safety in the workplace.
Particiaption and involvement in NAOSH week can:
- improve attitudes towards safety
- increase understanding of the importance of health and safety in the workplace
- foster a safety-minded culture
- increase cooperation
- assist in team building
- improve communication between employees, safety committees and safety professionals
What are you waiting for?
