June 2009 safety awareness poster, DOA

Here is the June safety poster from the Department of Administration, highlighting their three
focus areas:

• Lifting, Moving or Restraining Loads, typically resulting in back, shoulder and neck injuries;
• Slips, Trips and Falls, typically resulting in concussions, broken limbs, broken hips and back, shoulder and neck injuries; And,
• Motion of the Individual, which in an office environment includes ergonomic related injuries.

Slips, trips and falls campaign

The Bureau of State Risk Management (BSRM) be will starting the Slips, Trips and Falls Reduction Campaign in November. The campaign plan consists of:

• Winter slips and falls poster (pictured at right, planned to be available at the RM Conference in Madison on November 12-13).
• Winter slips and falls webcast (will be shown at the RM Conference at the Safety booth) to be available on the BSRM webpage for agency use. This is scheduled to be available during the week of the conference.
• Safety booth with Slips, Trips and Falls information
• Weekly emails in November regarding Slips and Falls prevention
• Spring webcast on slips, trips and falls.

Bucket, Ladder, Nail

Three Canadian maritime provinces* got together with The Extreme Group to produce three memorable thirty second safety commercials. The commercial "Nail" won a Bronze Lion in the Product and Service, public health and safety category at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. The commercials complement the Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia Work Safe For Life web site.

*Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia , Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Worker's Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island.