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Assess the Risk - if you dare!
Hot on the heels of SAFE Manitoba's award-winning, record-setting Spot the Hazard campaign, we bring you Assess the Risk - yet another horrifying glance into the workplace injuries youth risk each and every day.
The new campaign has launched at youth.safemanitoba.com and features tales from the SAFE Motel - a dingy, dangerous place where workplace incidents lurk around every corner for each of the motel's young workers.
After all, young employees account for 18 per cent of time loss injuries in Manitoba, with rates spiking between May and September. Most of these employees serve their first job in the service industry - and many don't realize the risks they face.
“This is just another way for us to get youth involved in injury prevention,” says Warren Preece, WCB Director of Communications. “Spot the Hazard was so successful in making a true impact on the younger generation of Manitobans. We hope Assess the Risk will have an even greater impact and help save lives.”
Assess the Risk invites visitors to participate in four interactive scenarios – The Broken, Blood in the Water, Two in the Hand and Left Cold – that examine the risks of common hazards young workers face on a daily basis.
Visitors help the characters choose the safest course of action to complete their jobs – and if the characters make it out unharmed, visitors have the chance to win one of 15 weekly draws for iPod nanos and one of two MacBooks.
So Spot the Hazard. Assess the Risk. Find a Safer Way. Everyday.