On Wednesday April 27th we hosted our 3rd Wellness In The Workplace (WITW) event. This was our third in four years. However this years event left me feeling quite unsettled…
Workplace substance use and harm reduction are topics that workplaces have long had to manage. Substance use is all around us, day in and day out. It’s in our lives,…
While at a conference recently we found that people were concerned about wellness at work and home, particularly identifying housing as an impact on wellness. A recent article confirmed what…
As we get closer to our Wellness In The Workplace: Topics of Substance event for 2022 we are looking to get wellness perspectives from our speakers looking at the idea…
The government of Canada has announced asbestos related regulatory changes around who can handle asbestos. New standards will be introduced into the Workers Compensation Act to provide mandatory requirements for…
Virtual reality and other technologies are here, when will we start to see them in our workplaces? We’ve all been through that powerpoint, the one where you’re welcomed to the…
As safety professionals we understand the duty to investigate when workplace hazards lead to incidents. There are fairly clear lines around incident investigation and reporting requirements, and they are generally…
New and Young Workers became a topic of interest for Rama Altaleb, a summer student who held a position with Carbon Safety recently. Rama was interested in how safety applies…
As safety professionals, due to the nature of our work, sometimes we must have difficult conversations. This may be due to observations of unsafe behaviour, or an occurrence that has…
As we’ve explored a number of topics connected to wellness, here’s another. Financial wellness for employees. This months guest blogger is Brad Woods, a Certified Health Insurance Specialist here in…
Addison Schaub is a Junior Safety Advisor with Carbon Safety Solutions, and has a strong interest in the sciences. He’s our guest blogger for May, and has focused on some…
What do you consider when you think of personal resiliency? Does it bring out a recollection of a steely eyed women staring adversity down? A forlorn victim of a natural…
Many of us have had experiences at work that have impacted our mental health. Workplaces that perhaps left us with a sense of camaraderie, satisfaction, and achievement, or that filled…
Medical staff and essential workers were front and center early in the pandemic. As cases started to rise, medical staff started to fear they would burnout. The Covid fatigue that…
Niall McEvoy is a safety professional with over 20 years experience, and is currently supporting safety efforts in the oil and gas sector. Niall is guest blogging for Carbon Safety…
With vaccines being slowly distributed across the world, and some light at the end of the tunnel, there’s some hope that the Pandemic may be winding down. In saying that,…
Canadian Mental Illness week began Sunday October 4th, and ended on Saturday October 10th with world mental health day, so let’s take a quick look at mental health and mindfulness…
Risk management is the foundation on which Carbon Safety Solutions was built. As many of my clients and colleagues know, Carbon Safety Solutions was founded on the principle that risk…
Online learning is a necessary requirement for businesses as they adapt and adjust to life with COVID-19. Businesses are facing a number of challenges and are required to reconsider how…
As businesses continue to navigate the unknown during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a small business owner I thought I would break from safety and cover a few questions around businesses…
In speaking with friends, clients, and business associates, I get the feeling many of us are balancing between hoping and coping. Hoping for a return to normal, or at least…
What’s the risk of beards and respirators? Does a beard seriously compromise the functionality of a mask? We know respirator face masks have long been a part of working safely. …
Dr. Ayukekbong is an infectious disease specialist on Vancouver Island. He kindly took some time out of his schedule, and his birthday, earlier this week to chat about the COVID-19…
As B.C. trends in the right direction with COVID-19 cases, restrictions may be lifted. What legal and ethical decisions must be made prior to businesses opening up?
If B.C. continues to flatten the curve, and we continue to see a reduction in new cases, and increase in closed cases. When might B.C. begin to return to work? …
While it’s still early, it looks like BC might be flattening the curve, for now, but Easter could be an issue. With nice weather and Easter coming, now is not…
I’m not sure if the health and safety of humans, organizations, and our economy have ever been so transparently and clearly linked, or globally connected. In B.C we had 970…
How are you managing the health of your business, and it’s employees as COVID-19 in Canada escalates in it’s risk level? If your business was shut down for the next…
COVID-19, or the Coronavirus as many also know it, is ramping up in it’s significance here in BC, Canada, and the rest of the world. The World Health Organization has…
The Environmental Medicine and Physiology Unit (EMPU) at Simon Fraser University is looking for bearded volunteers to undertake some safety research on beards and respirators. Want to contribute to the…
The World Health Organization has classified Burnout as an Occupational Phenomenon. It can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime. I often mention that I’ve worked for a number of entrepreneurs over…
In September 2018 I had my first batch of Carbon Safety Solutions business cards printed, and started to network my butt off on beautiful Vancouver Island, full of optimism and…
Safety is about people, protecting people’s health, and saving lives. It’s not always the working at height, or the confined spaces that are the risks. On September 10th every year,…
Many years ago I was introduced to the concept of continual improvement while I worked for Johnson Controls, who made seats for Toyota. I was introduced to Kaizen manufacturing, the…
Just a thought from some recent conversations around mental health. Wellness is like a bank. You have a finite amount of wellness, and when you have challenging times, you withdraw…
I often have discussions with colleagues, clients, and potential clients around safety in their organization. Often they will say they have a good safety program, or culture. When I hear…
Wish Carbon Safety luck as our Telus Pitch submission goes in today. I know I know, I should have been looking more at the camera! I only heard about the…
The last 4 weeks have been busy. Here’s a thought that’s gone through my head. “Adventure is a venture with adversity” Adversity has been on my mind for the last…
We all cope with stress on some level, and we all have our own way of doing so. The workplace is often considered a source of stress, and work based…
We’ve heard of tech companies such as Facebook and Google that are famous for their over the top employee benefits. Open all day salad bars, nap pods, gourmet chef cuisine,…
How’s your mental health? In 2000 I left British Columbia’s beautiful outdoors, a good job in Richmond BC, friends and family to get back together with an ex-girlfriend in Scotland…
Take some time to digest what nutritionist Tricia Pearson has to say about nutrition and work, and how we can improve our wellness at work and at home. What we…
Sometimes you may realize you’re tired. Sometimes you don’t, or just push through. Sometimes the consequences are less than ideal. When was the last time you had a good night’s…
As part of my role as a safety professional, I need to help identify hazards in the workplace. It’s kind of the starting point for almost any organization. It’s almost…
A new safety resource has been made available in Canada. It is a joint venture between The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) and the Canadian Centre for Occupational…
Today is the day Bell and many others have chosen to put a spotlight on mental health. It’s something that affects most of us, in some capacity. Whether we ourselves…
Grab a beverage, take a few minutes. This is going to be a little long for a blogpost, but I’m about to bare a tortured soul. Safety Differently, Safety-II, Human…
October 17th 2018 is a day many have circled on their calendars here in BC, and across Canada. On October 17th the Cannabis Act comes into force legalizing non-medicinal cannabis….
Hello and thank you for checking in on our first blog post. We intend on providing a monthly post on topics relevant to health, safety, and environmental management. I’d like…
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