{"id":26794,"date":"2024-08-03T06:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wsib-campaign-encourages-safe-work-for-young-people\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T06:17:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:17:16","slug":"wsib-campaign-encourages-safe-work-for-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wsib-campaign-encourages-safe-work-for-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"WSIB campaign encourages safe work for young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1003294531\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1003294531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsib.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\">WSIB Ontario<\/a>\u00a0reminds young people to practice safety because workplace safety doesn\u2019t take a summer vacation.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Summer is here, and that means a lot of young people (aged 15-24) are taking on summer jobs or entering the workforce.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To grab their attention, our newest\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/www.practicesafework.ca\/*section-home__;Iw!!N8s6OZY!3qXXhGeZezuuH2RL8caFKqbIrcE0j2ShXtoh8taI2k1KBCGDWvFnget-hNeiu_mqsoJ4auUU_U6ixb5qkA$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/www.practicesafework.ca\/*section-home__;Iw!!N8s6OZY!3qXXhGeZezuuH2RL8caFKqbIrcE0j2ShXtoh8taI2k1KBCGDWvFnget-hNeiu_mqsoJ4auUU_U6ixb5qkA$\" target=\"_blank\" data-outlook-id=\"d29cfe01-8d3c-41a7-bd52-e6eeabec2385\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">#PracticeSafeWork campaign<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0is using funny ads with animal animations to remind young people about the importance of workplace safety and let them know we\u2019re here to help.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cEvery year, we do our best to remind young people that\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">workplace injuries can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Our videos are funny but deliver a serious message \u2013 unsafe work practices can get you injured or killed,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Jeffery Lang, WSIB president and CEO.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In Ontario over the past ten years (2013-2023), 103 young people (aged 15-24) died because of work, 16 just last year alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And in 2023, more than 33,000 young people were injured at work, almost 13,000 of those injured seriously enough to lose time from work.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Our goal is to ensure young people don\u2019t become one of these statistics. But if they do become hurt or sick because of work, the WSIB is here to provide wage replacement, pay medical bills and help them get safely back to work when the time\u2019s right.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/wsib-campaign-encourages-safe-work-for-young-people\/1003294638\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Getty Images) WSIB Ontario\u00a0reminds young people to practice safety because workplace safety doesn\u2019t take a summer vacation.\u00a0Summer is here, and &#8230; <a title=\"WSIB campaign encourages safe work for young people\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wsib-campaign-encourages-safe-work-for-young-people\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WSIB campaign encourages safe work for young people\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-26794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}