by Sarah Wheelan | Apr 24, 2018 | Day of Mourning, Family support
April 28th once again brings us the National Day of Mourning; a day marked to reflect on the lives lost or forever changed by workplace injury and illness, and re-commit to the actions required for prevention. There’s an extra layer of heaviness for those who feel...
by Johanna LeRoux | Apr 25, 2017 | Day of Mourning, Family support, Safety culture
I have attended or participated in several National Day of Mourning ceremonies in the years since my son Micheal’s workplace fatality, and been fortunate enough to have been asked to speak at two of them. Ceremonies are held every year across Canada on April 28th, in...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 11, 2017 | Day of Mourning, Grief and healing, Safety culture
I’m not the best at skipping flat stones across water, but I’ve had a few multiples – the stones that ricochet off the water several times before finally sinking into the depths. It’s absorbing to watch the ripples move out from each point where the stone contacted...
by Sarah Wheelan | May 4, 2016 | Day of Mourning, Safety culture
On April 28th, the National Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured in the Workplace, organizers unveiled the Ontario Italian Fallen Workers Memorial at Columbus Centre in Toronto. A project more than six years in the making, the one-of-a-kind memorial is in...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 26, 2016 | Day of Mourning, Safety culture
Statistics can be a bit of a struggle in the health and safety world. How many work-related injuries or illnesses are really happening in an industry, a city, a province? What are the definitions? Workplace health and safety falls under provincial jurisdiction, except...
by Sarah Wheelan | Apr 19, 2016 | Day of Mourning, Safety culture
I was a university student when I attended my first Day of Mourning ceremony. On the morning of April 28, 2002, I stood at the local Day of Mourning ceremony unsure of what to expect. My younger brother had spent the previous 11 months in hospital after suffering...
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