Documents tagged 'Safety'
Published: 19/07/2008
(NC)-Here are some hamburger food safety tips from Health Canada:
Preparing:
Wash hands thoroughly with warm soapy water before and after handling any raw meat.
Thaw frozen meat in the refrigerator. If you must thaw food quickly, keep the food in its original wrapping and...
Published: 19/07/2008
(NC)-When it comes to preparing ground beef, it’s not easy to tell if it’s properly cooked. Many people guess that their burgers are done when they’re brown. However, ground beef can turn brown before disease-causing bacteria, such as E. coli O157:H7, are killed.
Canada’s food...
Published: 19/07/2008
(NC)-Common symptoms of foodborne illness include diarrhea, abdominal cramping, fever, sometimes blood or pus in the stools, headache, vomiting and severe exhaustion. Symptoms will vary according to the type and amount of harmful microorganisms present in the food. Symptoms may come on as...
Published: 19/07/2008
Poll reveals Canadians’ apathy for sun safety practices
(NC)-Although more than 90 per cent of Canadian family doctors feel that the combination of wearing a wide brimmed hat in conjunction with sunscreen is an effective method of protection against the sun’s rays, only 21 per cent...
Published: 19/07/2008
Without so much as a tap on the brakes, my aunt whizzed through another stop sign.
"What are you doing?" I shrieked. "That was a stop sign."
"Oh," she replied rather offhandedly, "they just put those there so you’ll look before you go into an intersection."
That was the day I...
Published: 19/07/2008
(NC)-Summer’s here and with it comes beach days, relaxation, family trips and special safety concerns. According to Susan Brunt, a Toronto based family physician, safety starts in your home, which may play host to many types of illness-causing germs and odor-producing bacteria.
"Most...
Published: 19/07/2008
(NC)-According to Health Canada, summer chefs who cook ground beef burgers on gas grills could have a food safety problem if they rely solely on colour-rather than an instant-read food thermometer-to determine if their patties are adequately cooked. For example, sometimes previously frozen...
Published: 17/07/2008
A good deal of safety, for both kids and adults, stems from the fact that you project self-confidence. Many victims, whether being one from a bully at school, the office intimidator or the mugger, project weakness in their personas. Having low self-esteem does not necessarily mean you will be a...
Published: 17/07/2008
The International Powered Access Federation or IPAF for short is a body that over the last twenty five years has strived to promote safe working procedures for powered access machinery workers. It has attempted to pursue these goals by producing training schedules for these workers so they have...
Published: 17/07/2008
As of 2006 government legislation demands that all business premises have had a fire risk assessment to assess the risk of fire and ways to reduce it. In the past the fire safety system in the UK depended upon fire certificates that deemed whether a premises was safe or not. Today this has...
