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WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2024
... This month, we address you as workers yourselves: people who face unique physical and psychological risks at ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM May 2023
... types of tasks or activities. Tolerance varies between people and over time for the same person, reflecting ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Hilary Spicer March 2022
... for guitars began at age 16, when he, like many young people, strummed a guitar to Eric Clapton and the Beatles. He ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP April 2019
... carbon monoxide (CO) levels (see Box). CO 2 is emitted by people working in the office building. An excessive ... an inadequate amount of fresh air for the number of people in the space. Elevated levels of CO 2 commonly ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Brocklehurst September 2019
... use can cause physical and behavioral changes that affect people’s ability to work safely, putting them or their ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... the Order of Canada for “her tireless work on behalf of people with kidney disease, both nationally and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon November 2018
... of injured workers, and ensuring fair compensation for people suffering injury or illness on the job. Outlines, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP November 2017
... while urban dwellers may have COHb levels of 1% to 2%. People such as firefighters, construction and garage workers, ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2017
... department’s scarce resources with highly intelligent people, such as professors of mathematics, physics, ... put the Vancouver Aquarium on the world map. Over 20 000 people came to see the whale (matching the record crowd that ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: David Sheps, MD, MSc, MBA, FRCSC, January/February 2016
... represented short-term disability costs. The majority of people suffered fractures from falls, motor vehicle ...