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Monday, November 19, 2007

WSIB Workplace Safety Videos

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (Ontario, Canada) has an aggressive attitude toward safety... "when it comes to counting up injuries and illnesses at work, the only acceptable number is zero."

They have sponsored and produced a number of safety videos that are realistic, hard-hitting, and highly effective. We will feature several of them in this blog this week. The first is an animation created to help young workers to refuse to work in unsafe working conditions.

Tomorrow we'll feature two more WSIB workplace safety videos.

This next video came out just a week ago and has already been viewed over 15,000 times on YouTube. WARNING: this video contains graphic content.