Overcoming a massive personal setback, Wolfgang Zimmerman has devoted his life to supporting the rights of injured workers Wolfgang Zimmerman got into the disability management field “literally by accident.” In 1977, at age 20 and with a bright future in civil forest engineering, Zimmerman was working on a forest crew on Vancouver Island, when the […]
Through hours spent writing, speaking and collaborating, Allan Smofsky has helped define workplace health in Canada In order to improve workplace health, you have to know what it is. And this, of course, is easier said than done. Allan Smofsky has played a vital role—much of it as a volunteer—in defining workplace health in this […]
Dr. Sakina Raj is a 46-year-old family physician with three children. She works long hours in a burgeoning group practice in northwest Calgary, accommodating the never-ending flow of new patients. Yet she knows full well there is no pot of gold at the end of her working life. “I have no RRSP, no salary, no […]