Halton Hills Hydro employees have a lot to be proud of. Not just their customer service but of one very interesting feat. They had a tremendous company record no injuries on the job.
Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. The record ended last week as an employee tripped up the stairs earlier in the year and as a result of that incident required knee surgery. We can all be proud of their achievements as they went an unbelievable 2,424 days without a lost day due to injury. That is a total of 6 years, 7 months and 20 days. Truly a remarkable record. When you think of the dangers of some of the jobs entail this is truly commendable. Also the nature of the injury is one that could have happened to anyone of us in our very own home makes should make us all very proud of this feat.
When the record ended the management of Halton Hills Hydro put on a barbecue for all of the employees and Hydro President Art Skidmore did all of the cooking. Myself and Art Skidmore spoke encouraging words to the employees.
Today as I write this, the employees have 9 consecutive days without injury and who knows the record of 2,424 injury free days may be broken.
No matter where you work, safety in the work place is to be taken very serious. All of us can learn from these 42 employees. They have regular safety meetings at work. Steve Mahoney, Chair of the WSIB says there are at least two work related deaths a week in Ontario. So we should all watch out for each other.
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