hazard controls

Hockey players and workplace health and safety

April 24, 2012 Marcia Scheffler Health and Safety, Human Resources

Hockey players get paid to be hit. The reverse is also true; many hockey players are paid to hit. For hockey players, violence is part of the job. This job has clearly been taken up a notch this year for the playoffs. Even Sid “the Kid” was renamed “Vicious Sid” in a recent headline.

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