Online Resources
One, Is One Too Many
The JPMF’s One, Is One Too Many campaign promotes the message that workplace safety for emergency services personnel is a shared responsibility – because one preventable death is one too many. Emergency services personnel have high risk jobs but when a community works together, many of these risks can be minimized.
Safety Video: Put Yourself in Our Boots
Think your workplace is safe? Turn off the lights, trigger the alarm and put yourself in the boots of emergency services personnel (ESP), who could be at your premises after hours, in unfamiliar surroundings with poor lighting and stressful circumstances. Your workplace is their workplace . . . is it safe?
Check out the Put Yourself in Our Boots flyer
Public Service Announcement:
Make Your Workplace Safe For Everyone
This PSA is a highly emotional and personal message that uses John’s on-duty death, which was the result of a preventable fall, to communicate to the public the importance of making workplaces safe – both for a company’s own employees and also for emergency responders who may have to attend the premises after hours.
Public Service Announcement:
SLOW DOWN: It’s No Picnic Out Here
Since 1990, over 800 emergency services personnel in Alberta have been injured or killed while attending to emergencies on the road. And there have been countless near misses. In partnership with other stakeholders, the JPMF coordinated the production of this PSA that addresses the issue of motorists speeding by emergency roadside scenes – and not giving emergency responders room to do their job.
Both PSAs are available for purchase on DVD
Safety Tips – What You Can Do
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, flight paramedics, and tow truck drivers have dangerous jobs but the risks can be minimized. What can you – the public – do to help make roadways and workplaces safer for emergency services personnel to do their job?
Other Workplace Safety Campaigns, PSAs, Links and Resources:
Give Us Room to Work
The JPMF is a member of the Give Us Room to Work committee, which is dedicated to keeping emergency responders safe while they work on Alberta roadways. The committee educates motorists about driving safely around emergency services personnel. Here are some Give Us Room to Work resources:
Give Us Room to Work presentation
Give Us Room to Work backgrounder
Give Us Room to Work tip sheet for radio announcers
Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research
The ACICR is committed to advancing injury control in Alberta, by promoting stakeholder collaboration, capacity building and evidence-based practice in the field of injury control and research. The centre provides injury facts/reports, educational resources, newsletters, prevention information, funding opportunities, networking opportunities, links and a library devoted to injury control and prevention.
Bloody Lucky
The Alberta government’s Bloody Lucky campaign features six graphic videos that are based on real-life incidents. Go to www.bloodylucky.ca for more information and to view the videos.
Road to Zero
The Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of Ontario is committed to making sure every worker comes home safely to their loved ones. Learn more about the WSIB’s Road to Zero campaign or click here to check out their advertising campaign, which includes interactive spots, TV spots, print ads and radio spots. The WSIB also offers road safety tips and resources.
Work Safe Alberta Information Sharing Network
The Work Safe Alberta Information Sharing Network is a clearinghouse for workplace health and safety information products. A diverse range of products is available – from how-to bulletins and e-learning tools to training videos and courses. Click here to search the network.
Work Safe. For Life.
This Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia website includes safety tips, blogs and links about workplace safety. Click here to view TV and radio ads from the website.
Mission Zero
WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s Mission Zero website features information on safety standards, TV spots, radio ads, print ads, posters, contests, photo galleries and a tip of the week.
Alberta Office of Traffic Safety
The Alberta Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) provides an umbrella to coordinate and deliver results-oriented programs that address traffic safety issues across Alberta. Their website at www.saferoads.com offers traffic stats, news, links and tips. Click here for information on Emergency & Construction Worker Safety.
Emergency Responder Safety Institute
The Institute serves as an informal advisory panel of public safety leaders committed to reducing deaths and injuries to emergency responders in the U.S. ERSI’s website at www.respondersafety.com includes safety videos, training resources and news updates regarding the safety of emergency services workers.
Move Over, America
The Move Over, America campaign is the first coordinated national effort to educate Americans about “Move Over” laws and how they help protect the law enforcement officers who risk their lives protecting the public. Follow this link to check out the website.
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
The mission of the NLEOMF is to generate increased public support for the law enforcement profession by permanently recording and appropriately commemorating the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers; and to provide information that will help promote law enforcement safety. The Memorial Fund provides facts and figures about law enforcement safety and has initiated a Drive Safely campaign to decrease officer fatalities on the road.