How do we transform our provincial culture to a point where injury prevention is a core value and injuries are no longer accepted as part of everyday life in Saskatchewan?
The other day I received a telephone call from a media reporter who was doing a story on elder falls resulting from the slippery conditions of our roads and sidewalks.
Last week I attended the Saskatchewan Safety Council's 38th annual Industrial Safety Seminar. I had an opportunity to join other local safety officials in driving golf carts through a course of pylons and road signs while attempting to complete various tasks like texting, changing songs on an iPod, reading a newspaper or making a grocery list.
When emergency services personnel are on the scene of a crash or personal disaster, they sometimes struggle to locate next of kin for a victim who is unconscious, dead or unable to respond.
