In episode 51 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I talk to Dave Ferro from Dave Ferro Safety Ltd. about how "The Great Resignation" is likely to affect workforce safety and what we can do about it. You can learn more about Dave Ferro at https://dfsafety.ca - marv ..read more

In episode 50 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I talk to Ron Rock from Microshare headquarters in Philadelphia about how "internet of things" contact tracing can be used to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. We talk in depth about the technical and privacy issues. A fascinating episode. - marv ---------------------------- No Harm is the health and safety podcast for HSE professionals. We explore issues and initiatives to help you sharpen your professional skills and better understand emerging issues. The No Harm Podcast is hosted by Marvin Polis of Stimulant Strategies an ..read more

In episode 49 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I talk to Tammy Hawkins and Susan Sawatzky from the Alberta Construction Safety Association about how the ACSA is expanding their virtual instructor led training. This is a very different experience for students compared to solitary, self-paced course work. Listen and learn about the benefits. - marv ---------------------------- No Harm is the health and safety podcast for HSE professionals. We explore issues and initiatives to help you sharpen your professional skills and better understand emerging issues. The No Harm Podcast is hosted b ..read more

In episode 48 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I talk to Phil Alle and Chris Eastham about how their new Health Canada approved device from Teser can eliminate COVID and other pathogens on PPE and tools, making them safer for reuse. - marv ---------------------------- No Harm is the health and safety podcast for HSE professionals. We explore issues and initiatives to help you sharpen your professional skills and better understand emerging issues. The No Harm Podcast is hosted by Marvin Polis of Stimulant Strategies and Productions, a veteran producer of HSE video productions and publi ..read more

In episode 47 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I talk to Ashling Boyd about the workplace incident that took the life of her father and how this tragedy led her to become a safety advocate and motivational speaker. - marv ---------------------------- No Harm is the health and safety podcast for HSE professionals. We explore issues and initiatives to help you sharpen your professional skills and better understand emerging issues. The No Harm Podcast is hosted by Marvin Polis of Stimulant Strategies and Productions, a veteran producer of HSE video productions and publications for munici ..read more

As my regular listeners will know, most of my episodes are interview based. Well, this one’s going to be different. In response to the COVID 19 pandemic, I recently teamed up with acclaimed ergonomist and occupational therapist, Dr. Linda Miller from EWI Works to produce a video about how to work safely from home. So what I’m going to do for this episode is play the soundtrack from that video. If you would like a downloadable version of the video that you can distribute to your employees on your internal network, please reach out to me or Linda on LinkedIn. If you want us to customize the vide ..read more

For this episode, we’re going to do something a little different. As some of you know, for one of my contracts I’m the Editor-in-Chief of Alberta Doctors’ Digest for the Alberta Medical Association. Alberta Doctors’ Digest is the flagship publication of the association. We recently released a podcast episode about albertapatients.ca hitting an important milestone, which is fantastic because albertapatients.ca is a great way for Albertans to have input into their health care system. So for this episode of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, we’re going to replay that interview. - marv ..read more

On the last two episodes of my podcast, I brought you stories from the Big Block Turnaround at the Shell Deer Park refinery near Houston, Texas. I promised you more, so here we go. In episode 43 we’re going to get into some of the health topics that were being promoted at the turnaround. Every day for four weeks, the health team at Deer Park visited the various lunch tents to do presentations, have educational contests and give away fun prizes. There were four big topics … one for each week. There was heat and hydration, sleep and fatigue, nutrition, and finally, physical activity and exercise ..read more

In episode 43 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I continue my series of stories from the Shell Deer Park refinery big block turnaround near Houston, Texas. We talk about why Shell is offering free medical services to the 4,000 contractors on site. This is the second in a special series of episodes from Deer Park where I'm interviewing numerous Shell experts about HSE topics including heat and hydration, sleep and fatigue, hand safety, hazard mitigation, and a whole lot more. Stayed tuned! - marv ------------------------------------- No Harm is the health and safety podcast for HSE prof ..read more

In episode 42 of the No Harm Health and Safety Podcast, I talk to Vicki Gibbs at the Shell Deer Park refinery near Houston, Texas about the Deer Park Big Block Turnaround. This will be the first in a special series of episodes from Deer Park where I'll interview numerous Shell experts about HSE topics including heat and hydration, sleep and fatigue, turnaround medical services, hand safety, hazard mitigation, and a whole lot more. - marv ------------------------------------- No Harm is the health and safety podcast for HSE professionals. We explore issues and initiatives to help you sharpen yo ..read more