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Workplace Incident Report: Still Hidden Behind a Password

As I've blogged about before, the Workplace Incident Report documentation and forms remain hidden behind a password wall here at York University. It's unnecessary, making it harder for workers to know how to report workplace injuries or near misses. Why am I blogging about this again? Because our Health Safety and Employee Well Being (HSEWB) […]

Where are the health and safety documents?

York University hides a lot of health and safety documents behind the Passport York wall. The "YU-Link" set of pages was introduced about ten years ago and, in the process, many documents that were previously accessible are now locked away and hard to obtain. In other words, this means that many important documents cannot be […]

Confusion on Workplace Incident Reporting at York University

I want to follow-up on my earlier post on workplace incident reporting at York University. Our HSEWB department, which controls resources and processes related to workplace health and safety at York University, continues to insist that documentation -- including workplace incident forms -- be hidden behind password protection access. Hiding health and safety documentation behind […]

The Workplace Incident Report (WIR)

The Workplace Incident Report form is meant to be filled out by your supervision when there is a health and safety incident, like when you slip and fall on ice at work. But it is also meant to be used when you _could_ have been injured -- for instance, by a falling object or a […]