WorkSafeBC releases three-year strategy to reduce serious injuries in four highest risk sectors
February 23, 2018
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WorkSafeBC has released their 2018-2020 High-Risk Strategy, a three-year plan to help employers reduce serious injuries in construction, forestry, health care and manufacturing sectors.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →WorkplaceNL and Service NL launch joint 5-year injury prevention strategy
February 22, 2018
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WorkplaceNL and Service NL‘s Occupational Health and Safety Division have launched a joint 5-year injury prevention strategy in consultation with Newfoundland and Labrador injury prevention partners and stakeholders.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →WorkSafeBC young worker safety brochure translated into seven languages
August 08, 2017
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Created with assistance from members of the Young Worker Advisory Group, WorkSafeBC‘s Getting a Job? Ask Questions About Safety brochure provides young and new workers with useful tips about how to address concerns about safety in the workplace.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →WorkSafeNB’s Safe Waste Collection campaign awarded Best in Show at 2017 AASCIF Communications Awards
June 30, 2017
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The American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) has announced the winners of its 2017 Communications Awards at their annual meeting in Oklahoma City. WorkSafeNB was selected as “Best in Show”, and won first place in the External Communications Campaign category
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →WorkSafe Saskatchewan has two new resources for employers
November 22, 2016
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For those building or updating their safety program, WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s new Foundational Pillars online safety resource for employers has free, customizable forms, links to online and classroom training and more!
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →WorkSafeBC’s Employer Safety Planning Tool Kit helps employers learn, compare, identify and plan health and safety programs
October 27, 2016
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WorkSafeBC‘s secure, interactive Employer Safety Planning Tool Kit helps employers learn about injuries and claims, compare their performance to their peers, identify trends, and plan health and safety programs for their workplaces.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →IRSST and RIPOST put forward a practical approach aimed at sustainably preventing interpersonal violence in the workplace
October 17, 2016
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Interpersonal violence in the workplace has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon, to the extent that in 2002 Québec adopted a legislative framework granting all employees a right to work in an environment free from psychological harassment.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →NWT & Nunavut Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission Launches New Campaign
September 16, 2016
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The Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC) has launched Worth It, a new campaign aimed at highlighting the importance of workplace safety in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →Sunsafetyatwork.ca helps workplaces protect employees from sun exposure dangers
September 16, 2016
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Sun Safety at Work Canada, a research, policy, and practice partnership funded by Health Canada through the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, has launched sunsafetyatwork.ca to support workplaces in helping protect their employees from the dangers of sun exposure at work.
Continue Reading →Continuer la lecture →No business too small for safety – WSCC develops an OHS program guide for NWT/Nunavut small businesses
September 06, 2016
The Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (WSCC) has published the ‘Occupational Health and Safety Program Guide for Small Businesses.’
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