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Latest HSE Statistics YTD
  2014 2015
Workplace fatalities
Non-work related fatalities
Non-accidental deaths (NADs)
Lost Time Injuries (LTIs)
All injuries (excluding first aid cases)
Motor Vehicle Incidents (MVIs)
Roll over - MVIs
Serious MVIs
Lost Time Injury Frequency (LTIF)
Life Saving Rules Violations
YTD
Journey management
Speeding/GSM
Seatbelts
Overriding safety device
Working at heights
Permit
Confined space
Lock out tag out
Drugs and alcohol
Gas testing
Smoking
Suspended Load
Vehicle Class A/B Defect
YTD
Class A
Class B
HSE TIP
 

Important News


   
 

Drug misuse or abuse of many, both legal and illegal is common. They are habit forming substances (stimulant or narcotic) which provide a state of arousal, pain relief, contentment, or euphoria. They all have various different effects mostly on brain, lungs, heart, immune system, and personality with potential for violence/excessive rage, Addiction, & Death. Treatment, rehabilitation and recovery from addiction is a long hard road!
What Are Substance Abuse and Addiction?
The difference is very slight. Substance abuse means using an illegal or a legal substance in the wrong way.

   

Addiction to particular substance or drug, which usually begins as abuse, refers to a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive seeking and use despite harmful consequences to the individual who is addicted and to those around them.  Simply put, Addiction means a person has no control over whether he or she uses a drug or alcohol. He or she has to have it. Losing One’s Mind & Will. It is often progressive and fatal.
Risk for addiction is influenced by a person’s biology (genetic), psychosocial environment, and age or stage of development. The more risk factors an individual has, the greater the chance that taking drugs can lead to addiction.
 

 

What You Need to Know

 
 
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Abuse and addiction of alcohol and other drugs can lead to major issue in a society causing problems at home with families, at work, in the community and one self. Examples are:
 

  • Breakdown of relationships
  • Decrease in self-care
  • Inability to attend classes/do school work
  • Inability to work
  • Financial problems
  • Illegal behavior (fighting, stealing)
  • Underage violence on the rise.
  • Contribute to significant accidents in and outside work.
  • Drinking & Driving is common.
  • Psychiatric and other medical risks and illness
  • suicide/death

 

 
TEENAGERS and ADOLESCENCE are more at risk
This is the time when most substance abuse occurs, and where people start forming their first addictions because of the following reasons:
 

  • Escape from reality for a while
  • peer pressure and so to fit in with a group of friends.
  • Risk-taking, curiosity
  • Want to be independent
  • Just boredom
  • Psychiatric /social problems (ADHD)
  • Family issues, Bad parenting
  • Need to obtain money for drugs – engage in sexual activity, predators, stealing, prison, suicide/death, etc.

 

While we as parent are so busy as ever increasing demanding world. We need to make effort to be on the look for signs of abuse and addiction. These include:
 

  • Loss of interest in school
  • changing friends (to hang out with kids who use drugs)
  • become moody, negative, cranky or worried all the time
  • ask to be left alone a lot
  • have trouble concentrating or sleep a lot (maybe even in class)
  • gets into fights
  • significant weight loss
  • recurrent red or puffy eyes, unexplained coughing at all times and a runny nose all of the time