This is North American Occupational Safety and Health week, also referred to as NAOSH week.

Xenia Adrian is Safety and Training Coordinator at Loewen in Steinbach. She says they brought out vendors to promote workplace safety. Adrian says vendors range from those promoting footwear and fire extinguishers to hearing and storm watchers.

But Adrian says not only is factory work being highlighted, so is office work.

"A lot of influence now coming in with sitting being the next smoking," says Adrian.

She notes a lot of people are looking at different options of how to change their office environment, while still getting their work done. This can include different ergonomic choices such as creating a stand station or even stand/sit station.

"We have a company here showing what different options there are," says Adrian. "That's one of the things that we are having a lot of concerns with in our office environment."

Adrian says at Loewen they find it important that people come to work, are safe and understand the dangers.

"Understanding and knowing what they are working with and what those dangers are makes all the difference in having people comply with what the rules are and understand how important it is to make sure you are following all these rules," explains Adrian.

Dani Desautels is with Made Safe, Manufacturing Safety For Manitoba. She says for the most part, when they experience resistance to safety measures, it is because people do not understand the reasoning behind what is being done.

"Our main focus is we want you to go home in the same shape that you showed up to work," she says. "We want you to be at home in the same shape that you can be able to perform your daily duties, whether it's family oriented, if it's cultural, if it's community, we want you to be able to continue that without the restraint of an injury."