Spotlight on RoSPA’s First International Awards Ambassador – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

In 2018, RoSPA developed the RoSPA Awards Ambassador scheme, aiming to create a network of individuals who champion RoSPA’s objective to drive up health and safety standards via the RoSPA’s International Health and Safety Awards. With more than 27-years of experience in OS&H management, and over half of those spent working overseas, Stephen Storey, who is based in India, was well placed to be RoSPA’s first international awards ambassador. We catch up with him to see what this means for him. Stephen Story has spent fifteen years working overseas in OS&H management in the Middle East and Asia. He is…

LETTER: How does cutting optometrist care improve seniors health?

Newmarket senior who requires frequent visits to an optometrist for ingrown eyelashes is concerned about out-of-pocket costs with the new deal Newmarket Today welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). Re: Government, optometrists see eye to eye on a new dealMarch 26, 2023. I am one of many patients who require frequent visits to an optometrist. My condition is ingrown eyelashes. The ingrown lashes are removed by the optometrist, using the slit lamp and plucking with tweezers monthly. If these hairs are not removed, eye…

The News Journal archives, week of March 26

“Pages of history” features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Evening Journal. March 27, 1953, Wilmington Morning News New polio vaccine passes test, but will be delayed The new polio vaccine has passed its first human test on 90 children and adults with flying colors. But “there will be no polio vaccine” for general use this summer. This was announced last night by Dr. Jonas E. Salk, 38, young virus researcher of the University of Pittsburgh. Front page of the Wilmington Morning News from March 27, 1953. The creamy vaccine, homogenized in mineral…

Catch it, Kill it, Bin it… Then What? – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

Core messaging during the COVID -19 pandemic has focused on the role each citizen plays in bringing the situation under control. Good hygiene and social distancing have been spoken about widely and it is acknowledged that the latter is the primary risk control measure. The role of key workers has also been widely discussed, such as the value of NHS staff and care workers, the role of educators and the rapid transition to home schooling. And as I sit here at home thinking about the 27 million households in the UK on lockdown, and the impact on people and their…

One More Cure for Hiccups

December 20, 2022 · 5:50 AM I’ve written previously about how Paul Ingraham helped cure my patello-femoral pain syndrome. More recently, Paul looked into hiccup cures because his father had an intractable case. What finally worked for dad? Breathing into a plastic bag. Boosting blood CO2 (hypercapnia) by breathing in a PLASTIC bag. This one is quite plausible and is easy and safe to try. Hypercapnia definitely affects some kinds of hiccups. The story (from a smart source, a good “friend of PainSci”): “There’s an even easier way out of hiccups — at zero cost. Learned it from my uncle,…

Newmarket pizzeria ordered to close after public health inspection

Walk4Pizza was cited for a number of items, including failing to protect food from contamination or adulteration, according to the inspection report Newmarket restaurant Walk4Pizza was ordered to temporarily close by York Region Public Health following an inspection last week. An inspection at the restaurant at 6-350 Davis Dr. found a number of items not in compliance on March 10. According to the inspection report from public health, it failed to protect food from contamination or adulteration, failed to keep equipment surfaces clean as necessary, failed to ensure a certified food handler was present at all times, and was not…

Fixing the family doctor shortage in Canada

Whether you have a family doctor or you’re looking for one, chances are you have had to endure long wait times to see them or find them. Last year, the Angus Reid Institute reported there were six million Canadians without a family doctor, and a third of them said they had been searching for more than a year. And even for those who are part of the lucky group who has one, their wait time probably ranges from days to weeks to get an appointment. Danielle Martin, a family physician and chair of the department of family and community medicine…

Judge holds Washington state in contempt for not providing services to mentally ill people in jails

A federal judge has found Washington state in contempt and ordered it to pay more than $100 million in fines for failing to provide timely psychiatric services to mentally ill people who are forced to wait in jails for weeks or months. [–In her order released late Friday, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said the Washington Department of Social and Health Services has been violating the constitutional rights of these people since 2015 due to a “lack of foresight, creativity, planning and timely response to a crisis of its own making.” [–The ruling stems from a federal lawsuit…