Carrots are great raw foods, but if you're looking to keep your eyes healthy it is actually the dark green, lutein-rich foods that will help slow macular degeneration;  kale, collards and swiss chard.  Coming in a close second are fatty fishes such as sardines, herring and mackerel.  

If these dark leafy greens are new to you they can taste quite bitter.  The best way to try them for the first time is to boil them in a small amount of water until they are limp.  Then try tossing it with a…

This time of year, it can be easy to forget about the importance of drinking water.  With all of the tempting flavoured coffees that are constantly promoted in February, drinking water can go by the way side in favour of something warm and sweet.

We all easily acknowledge that water is good for your skin, joint health, muscular performance, and appetite control.  Our bodies are made of 60% water, so when your water intake is low all of the body's systems are adversely affected.  Blood is 80%…

In December when NGF launched their Employee Wellness Program with us, we began the program with the Personal Wellness Profile (a.k.a. HRA)  By allowing staff paid time, and the facilities and support staff to assist them in this task, they were able to achieve the incredible rate of 97% participation!  Fantastic!  It also speaks to the relationship that they have with their employees as clearly there was already an established trust and strong sense of team that allowed us to work with so many…

If you have a visit from the Ministry this is what you can expect:

The inspector will likley perform an administrative review including looking at how your workplace lives up to its roles under the Internal Responsibility System, your MSD injury statistics, your JHSC minutes, your written procedures and training on MSD hazards, and workplace controls that you have implemented or they feel should be implemented. 

The last blitz they identified and wrote orders for manual lifting hazards,…

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Over the past 5 years, Hugh has been diligently working on improving Safety within Johnsonite Canada, starting with the policy manual and continuing with communicating key performance indicators to all 65 employees. Hugh has been a great part of the EMC Safety Group, and regularly contributes to our Member Needs Help Requests which speaks to his goal of wanting to promote health and safety outside of the workplace and to other companies.

Hugh is a very approachable person, and is able to work…

During this webinar, we'll explore how to decide and recognize what is a good next step for you.  Being able to choose a new path or even a slightly different direction can be straight forward and simple.  In fact, one small decision and a plan of how to implement that change can become a new skill that helps you in many areas of life.  So many things can seem like a good idea or something we "should" be doing.  But what you feel you "should" do and what you want to do, can be two very…

The following is a list of risks to employers relating to employee health:

• WSIB Costs -- the importance of managing return to work cases effectively
• Medical Benefits Costs -- the impact of unhealthy employees on benefits premiums
• MOL Orders and Fine -- Compliance orders and fines can be avoided by being prepared
• Hiring At-Risk Employees -- Are your new hires physically capable of performing the required work functions? Are they bringing conditions that may result in future claims?
• Worker…