April 7th, 2005
The Central Client Service Health and Safety Council presents a free info session with Paul Kells on Thursday May 5, 2005.
As an employer, one of your key responsibilities is to provide a healthy and safe environment ... read more
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February 11th, 2005
Northern Ontario’s Manitouwadge High School has won an all-expense paid Much Video Dance from Passport to Safety. The prize was the result of 99% of Manitouwadge students completing the Passport to Safety Challenge, the highest ... read more
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January 18th, 2005
Loyalist College is the winner of the Passport to Safety Fall Campaign promotion. As the winner, they will choose an all-expenses paid visit from either renowned Workplace Safety Speaker Paul Kells or Youth Safety Advocate ... read more
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January 5th, 2005
Festival Hydro (Stratford) became Passport to Safety’s first employer member of 2005. Festival Hydro joins a growing list of over 140 companies who support the program by purchasing annual memberships. In addition, Festival Hydro ... read more
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October 17th, 2004
At the National Safe Communities Foundation Conference in Perth, Ontario (October 17-19, 2004) Passport to Safety’s Executive Director, Paul Kells, presented Safe Communities of Pickering Ajax’s (SCOPA) member Gary Gibson with the 2004 Passport to Safety ... read more
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June 28th, 2004
Passport to Safety (Passport) was successfully piloted by the Ministry of Labour and is now moving across the Ontario Public Service to advance health and safety learning for workers under the age of 25.
On June 21, ... read more
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April 26th, 2004
LINK 2004 is an all new, fast-paced, multi-media stage show, created with the assistance of senior high school drama students. The goal of LINK is to increase the health & safety awareness of young workers in ... read more
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March 2nd, 2004
Members of the Perth business community gathered to listen to the first hand account of a workplace accident that cost one young Canadian part of her leg.
Candace Carnahan is the national youth spokesperson for the Passport ... read more
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March 2nd, 2004
Accidents can happen in any workplace, to employers of any age group.
This was the message from Candace Carnahan, the national youth spokesperson for the Passport to Safety program.
She travels the country, speaking to CEOs of national ... read more
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March 2nd, 2004
As the saying goes, it’s never too early to start. The new Passport to Safety Program seems to be taking this phrase to heart.
Passport to Safety is an innovative Canadian program initiated by Paul Kells, ... read more
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February 23rd, 2004
Get Your Safe On
Mark Biros
Remember that summer job you once had when your boss asked you to climb that teetering rickety ladder to change those flickering light bulbs? Sparks flew and that ... read more
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February 3rd, 2004
\"I was in the hospital for three days and then I found out that my leg would be amputated below the knee.\" Candace Carnahan\'s story is similar to many students working a summer job to pay ... read more
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February 3rd, 2004
Job safety can be a matter of life and death. That\'s the method the Yukon Workers Compensation Health and Safety Board wants to get out to young people in the territory. The board is promoting a ... read more
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February 3rd, 2004
Young people in the territory are learning first hand this week about safety on the job. Two people, who have known pain and tragedy, are in the territory promoting the program called Passport To Safety. They ... read more
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February 3rd, 2004
Candace Carnahan doesn\'t want the same thing to happen to the Yukon\'s youth that befelled her.
She was in Whitehorse this week to promote workplace safety for youth and to speak about the tragedy she lived through ... read more
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February 3rd, 2004
WHITEHORSE: (Nancy Thompson) Two people who have experienced the tragic consequences of workplace accidents are in Whitehorse to promote a new program for young workers. Paul Kells is the founder and vice chair of the Safe ... read more
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January 27th, 2004
Whether it\'s in summer jobs, saving money for post-secondary education,part-time work, or just getting some experience and making some spending
cash, students are an integral part of the work force.
But, even though they prove themselves capable ... read more
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January 22nd, 2004
PICKERING - Megan Woodrow knows a passport takes you places. But she\'s
obtaining one this year to avoid ending up somewhere, namely a hospital bed.
The Dunbarton High School Grade 11 student is taking safety training and
will then ... read more
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January 21st, 2004
It was personal tragedy that led Paul Kells to start the Passport to Safety program. His 19 year old son, Sean, died in a small warehouse explosion three days after starting a part time job.
Sean knew ... read more
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December 17th, 2003
YOUNG WORKERS\' SAFETY
Mr David Zimmer (Willowdale): My question is for the Minister of Labour. Too many younger workers in Ontario are injured or killed in the workplace. Workers under the age of 25 are at the ... read more
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December 5th, 2003
OTTAWA — Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, will preside at an investiture ceremony of the Meritorious Service Decorations at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa on Friday, December 5, 2003, at 10:30 ... read more
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November 26th, 2003
PETER KENT (HOST): A new national program intended to protect young
People from work-related injuries launched this week in Ottawa. The need is obvious: in parts of the country, as many as 70% of youngsters received ... read more
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November 25th, 2003
Safety advocate goes to Ottawa for a revolution
Program launched to give youth knowledge of injury prevention
By Brian Underhill / Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa - Chester\'s Paul Kells was in the nation\'s capital Monday to start ... read more
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November 24th, 2003
A milestone in youth safety was reached today with the national launch of Passport to Safety.at the 2003 Canadian Injury Prevention Conference in Ottawa.
Provincial and municipal governments, labour unions, employers, business groups, youth groups, educators, ... read more
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November 23rd, 2003
Designed to build on the Kananaskis 2000 national conference, the 2003 Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference will focus on unintentional injury, violence and suicide prevention, attracting professionals from a wide range of disciplines including: ... read more
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November 5th, 2003
157 9th Graders completed the entire Passport to Safety test at Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board offices this week.
In all, 203 9th Graders signed up for Passport to Safety and completed at least one section ... read more
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October 21st, 2003
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October 21st, 2003
YOUTH NEED MORE INFORMATION AND TRAINING TO STAY SAFE AT WORK
Young workers want more information and training about health and
safety at work and they will use this information if it is
provided to them ... read more
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September 8th, 2003
Candace Carnahan lost her left leg in 1999 to a conveyor belt in a paper mill where she worked that summer. Now, the 25 year old from Miramichi, N.B., is doing her best to increase awareness ... read more
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July 9th, 2003
The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal
News, Wednesday, July 9, 2003, p.
A12
Safety program hopes to raise awareness of young workers
BY
RICHARD ROIK Telegraph-Journal
A woman who lost part of her left leg while
working as a summer student at a
Miramichi mill ... read more
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