by adminThreadsofLife | Apr 24, 2024 | Day of Mourning, How We Help
The National Day of Mourning is an important day for Threads of Life family members – a time for private remembrance, but also a time when many choose to share their personal stories in order to honour their loved ones and their own experience, and to help others...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 27, 2023 | Day of Mourning, Our Family Stories
When lives change due to a workplace tragedy – whether a fatality, a life-altering injury or an occupational disease – we grieve so many losses, from little things like the Mother’s Day card we’ll never receive to big ones like the shared future that will never be...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 27, 2022 | Day of Mourning, How We Help, Our Family Stories
Following a workplace tragedy, many families would say that every day is a day of mourning. It’s especially true in the early days following a fatality, but the aftermath of a serious injury or an occupational illness, too, are filled with grief at the loss of life,...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 26, 2021 | Day of Mourning, How We Help
What dates are important to you? We all have a private calendar of days and years that are memorable for us – and many are dates that wouldn’t be notable to anyone else. For families affected by work-related tragedy, most of those dates are very personal: a last...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 22, 2020 | Day of Mourning, How We Help
Day of Mourning, marked on April 28, began with Canadian labour unions which wanted to emphasize and recognize the many workers who are killed, injured and made ill in workplaces. For Threads of Life families, April 28 is one day when their personal, intimate story...
by adminThreadsofLife | Apr 9, 2020 | Day of Mourning, Health and Safety, How We Help
by Stephanie Benay, CRSP Recently, I went through a series of job interviews for a senior HSE position in Calgary. As it turns out, I didn’t land the role and was disappointed to hear that the organization felt I was “too passionate” about safety. Too passionate. I...
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