Weathering the storms

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It’s a new year, a new decade, and here are several new ways for you to make a difference.

Weather poses new hazards for workers

It’s storm season in Canada. In every season, severe weather is becoming more common, and storms present threats not just to homeowners and drivers, but to workers. Adam Sura was a certified arborist, helping to clear a fallen tree after a wind storm, to allow a school bus through. In a sudden gust, another tree crashed down, killing both Adam and his co-worker. An investigation found no fault with his employer and no procedure that might have prevented Adam’s death. However, as these weather events become more frequent, employers and safety professionals must consider the risks employees may face, and find ways to prevent injury and death. Read Adam’s story in our newsletter and think about weather hazards in your own workplace.

Read Adam's Story

Sending the year in a safe direction

The first shift of a new year is a perfect time to reinforce safe and healthy practices in the workplace, and many of Threads of Life’s partners are starting 2020 off right by booking a volunteer speaker to share a story and message. In the first weeks of 2019, Threads of Life speakers spoke in breweries, fabrication plans, construction sites and high school classrooms. Requests for January 2020 started flowing in last fall. But it’s not too late to arrange a powerful speaker to give everyone from managers to front-line workers a fresh perspective for a new year and a new decade.

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Welcome (back) to the Steps for Life family!

Steps for Life - Walking for Families of Workplace Tragedy comes to four new communities in 2020!

Organizing a Steps for Life walk is a major commitment for our volunteers. But in 2020, four new or returning communities will play host to Steps for Life events, bringing the total close to 30 walks from coast to coast in Canada! Welcome aboard or welcome back to Sydney, Nova Scotia; Windsor, Ontario; Thunder Bay, Ontario; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Thank you, our committed volunteers, for bringing your message of compassion and awareness to these communities. Check the stepsforlife.ca website for the complete list of walk locations.

Registration opens in February!

On our blog:

Threads of Life services are needed right now

In 2019, 8,400 people across Canada heard directly from Threads of Life family members why workplace safety matters. Each of those 8,400 were touched by the story of a family changed forever.

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The Sound of Workplace Tragedy

Early in my career I had to make the phone call to a woman to tell her that her daughter's father, the man she loved, had suffered a serious head injury on the job.

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