Starting Friday (August 27), the 29-year-old Canadian will attempt to set a world record for the most number of high-fives made by an individual in 24 hours.

"The world record is a distant second to me,” said the 29-Dueck, who won a silver medal in the sitting-slalom event in Whistler.

He is doing it to raise awareness of worker safety.

"But if I can use this vehicle to share some of the life lessons I’ve learned in the past few years to minimise workplace injuries for young people, then, boo-ya, that’s why I’m doing this," said Dueck.

The current record is 3,131 high-fives over 24 hours set in 2008.

Dueck’s target is to hit over 7,000.

He has been training as he would for a major competition, who has even been doing visualisation exercises for the attempt.

"It’s going to be a challenge," said Dueck.

"There’s no two ways about it."

To qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records, the entire event is being videotaped.

Independent observers will be on hand.

High-fivers will also get their hands stamped in order to avoid repeats.

Dueck was only 23 and working as a ski coach when he tried to demonstrate an aerial trick for a student.

Halfway through the in-run, alarm bells began ringing.

"My gut instinct was telling me to pull out, but my ego overrode that and it changed my life forever,” he said.

Dueck flew down the mountain too fast, over-rotated his front foot, and crashed 100 feet to the ground.

The impact severed his spine, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.

Dueck now uses that experience to educate young people on how to stay safe at work.

His record-setting attempt is part of WorkSafeBC’s Raise Your Hand campaign, which aims to increase awareness of workplace safety among those aged 15 to 24 by encouraging them to stay safe, speak up, and informing them of their right to refuse unsafe work.

According to WorkSafeBC, B.C.’s 330,000 young workers are more likely to get hurt on the job than older workers.

While the number of workplace injuries among young people has declined by 30 per cent in the last decade, nearly 7,000 were injured last year. Six died.

The campaign is a great way to bring attention to these numbers which are still 7,000 too many, said Dueck.

"Gut instinct and intuition have been around a lot longer than I have," he said.

"I’m just the guy to remind people to listen to that in the hopes of preventing an accident."