New Brunswick student wins CCOHS safety-video contest for 2017

HAMILTON, Ont. – The Eye, a short film by Riverview, N.B. high-school student Zach MacMillan-Kenny, has won the national Focus on Safety Youth Video Contest this year. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) announced the winners of the annual competition, in which students make original videos about workplace safety, on May 8. MacMillan-Kenny’s two-minute video features his own grandfather as a man recalling a workplace injury 40 years before; it was inspired by a real-life incident his grandfather had experienced, according to a May 12 news release from WorkSafeNB. “Zach’s submission… demonstrated that the decisions we make about our own safety practices can impact us for the rest of our lives,” said a statement by the contest jury. “We can all picture ourselves taking the same shortcut as his character did.” Second prize in this year’s contest went to Know Your Limits by Ben MacMillan and Jacob MacDonald in Morell, P.E.I., CCOHS stated in a media release; third place went to Your Right to Set Things Right by Rain Cahigas in Winnipeg, and the Fan Favourite award went to Focus on Safety by Shannen Garibay and Maria Himbeault in Clavet, Sask. The Eye is viewable online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLE8zS9PieM.

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