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#302 – MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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  • Every day over 500,000 Canadians are off work due to mental health
  • Every Day 200 Canadians attempt suicide
  • My clients report that about a quarter of disability claims are related to mental health
  • Mental illnesses cost Canada about $51.7 billion in 2015, 452,000 more Canadians would be participating in the labour force in 2016 if they were not affected by mental illness.
  • These estimates of the economic impact do not include the costs of patient care, insurance for employers, services in communities, and the many intangible costs for the individuals affected and their families, too many people suffer in silence with mental health issues.
  • One in five employees will experience a mental health issue during their working life.    One in four people will experience a mental health condition in any one year and depression and anxiety affect 20 per cent of the Canadian working population.

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#302 – COVID 19: WHAT PREDISPOSES PEOPLE TO SEVERE ILLNESS AND DEATH? – ALLEN TAYLOR

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Covid-19 is a real puzzler. Its effects are all over the map from unnoticeable to death, along with every point in between. Some people exhibit no symptoms and are unaware that they are infected until a positive test for the SARS-Cov-2 virus delivers the bad news. Others rapidly deteriorate and then die within a few days. Some (the “long haulers”} remain weak and tired for months after the acute disease has left them. Some even suffer permanent damage to their internal organs. Continue reading →

#301 – 66 VALUABLE LESSONS WE CAN LEARN FROM COVID – PATRICK OW

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Since March 2020, I have been intimately involved in the COVID-19 response. I have also read and researched many articles related to this pandemic.

For me, there are 66 lessons that we can learn through our response and living through a pandemic. Some of these lessons may overlap with each other.

These 66 lessons have been categories into five categories. Continue reading →

#301 – SHUTTING THE GATE SYNDROME -MALCOLM PEART

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“Puttin’ wood in t’ole after ‘oss ‘as bolted“… this is actually English, it really is, and it’s a Yorkshire phrase meaning ‘shutting the gate after the horse has gone’.

How often are we wise after the fact?  How often is more time and effort spent focusing on the gate rather than retrieving the horse?  There is a tendency to try and find the person responsible for not closing the gate, requiring more people to check on gate closing, writing procedures for closing the gate and this is coupled with hours of pointless and misdirected discussions by every man along with their barking dogs.  But what about catching the horse that now runs free and ensuring it can’t bolt again? Continue reading →

#301 – DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN YOUR RISK ASSESSMENT – ANDREW SHEVES

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Most of the risk assessment models I’ve discussed before use a basic formula to calculate a value for risk. By adding or multiplying values for the individual factors, you’ll get a numeric value for the risk itself. That’s going to allow you to put things into order, apply a color-code or description. That gives you enough differentiation to start a risk-based discussion or determine where you need to focus your attention and resources. Continue reading →