WSN Annual Report 2019-20
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Ten Years Strong Workplace Safety North Annual Report 2019-20 101 Growing up WSN: In a safety side-by-side, the son of a WSN staff member is pictured in 2010 and again in 2020, illustrating that your family wants you to come home safely – and so do we! In 2010, three longstanding Ontario health and safety associations – forestry, mining, and printing, paper, and converting – were joined together to create Workplace Safety North. 2 Contents Message from the Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer 4 WSN Strategy 2020 6 Key Accomplishments 7 The Year in Numbers: Making Workplaces Safer 13 In Your Community: WSN Staff and Services 17 Education Programs and Information Resources 18 Industry Advisory Committees 24 Ontario Mine Rescue 27 Workplace Excellence and President’s Award Winners 29 Events: Top 10 Health and Safety Events of the Decade 30 Staff Successes 32 Board of Directors 33 3 Message from the Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer Reflections 2010 Incorporated as Workplace The annual report is always interesting to put together, it allows you to Safety North sit back and look at all that has been accomplished, but this edition is particularly special because the 2019-20 fiscal year marked our 10-year Vision of Every Worker, Home anniversary. To celebrate, we have done a bit of reflecting – a look back Safe and Healthy at a decade of progress along our journey to bring every worker home 2011 safe and healthy. Mandatory training and Chief Our prevention services team engages with hundreds of firms Prevention Officer created annually through consulting and training activities that help support through Bill 160 our sector and community-based clients in achieving the superior Checkpoint to Zero roundtables occupational health and safety outcomes they expect. Annually we train some 900 mine rescue volunteers across the province, so the Launch of Every Worker magazine mining industry is prepared to respond to underground emergencies. 2012 Everyone at Workplace Safety North feels privileged to have been Five-year Strategic Plan focused able to help make workplaces safer over the past 10 years. The result – on making workplaces safer together you have lowered your 2019 collective lost-time injury rate per New client-focused website 100 FTE workers to 0.73, an improvement of 27 per cent over 2010. Workplace Excellence In this report we share highlights of the past fiscal year including Awards Program the 90th Anniversary of Ontario Mine Rescue, creating awareness of emerging areas in health and safety such as chronic mental stress, 2013 and the impact of legalized cannabis on the workplace, hosting new 96 percent client satisfaction rating community events in Timmins and Thunder Bay, strengthening our Host of International Mines culture-improving and leadership development tools, and accepting Rescue Body Conference in an award from Excellence Canada recognizing our own commitment Niagara Falls to a safe and healthy workplace for our staff. 2014 We also share special moments from the past decade, including 5th Anniversary welcoming the world in 2016 as the International Mines Rescue Competition came to Canada for the first time with over thirty teams Mining Health, Safety and attending, representing twenty nations. Prevention Review begins Chair Dwight Harper takes over As we put this report together in the spring of 2020 COVID-19 changed from inaugural Chair Bill Shaver our world in every way. We are living and working in unprecedented times and none of us knows what the full impact will be on workplace 2015 health and safety, but we can assure you that Workplace Safety WSN celebrates 100 years of health North will continue to do its part, supporting local communities and and safety in Ontario forestry and workplaces in new and better ways, and we will come out of this pulp and paper sectors stronger by working together. To extend our reach and expand our impact we will explore new channels, structures, and technologies Approved provider of new through which to deliver our unique health and safety expertise. Working at Heights safety training 4 We would like to thank our staff for their dedication and passion in 2016 service delivery, our management team for their focus and ability to Host of International Mines grow and embrace change, and the Advisory Committees and Board Rescue Competition in Sudbury of Directors for their support, guidance, and wisdom. Most of all, thank you to our clients for allowing us to be part of your work lives Approved provider of and achievements. JHSC training Winner of Canada Awards Looking back, we have come so far. Looking ahead, we have every reason for Excellence to believe that the next 10 years will be even more transformative. 2017 Working in collaboration with Ontario prevention system partners Sudbury office moves to larger including the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development, training facility and new Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, and other health and safety headquarters for Ontario associations, we believe we can realize our shared purpose and vision Mine Rescue of every worker home safe and healthy. New safety culture tool introduced Stay safe, stay healthy, and please enjoy this celebration of 2018 10 amazing years. Feed Your Brain lunch and learn awareness sessions launched Inaugural Timmins Health and Safety Conference Safe Workplace Ontario celebrates 20 years Paul Andre appointed new President and CEO Sandra Haddad appointed Board Chair Sandra Haddad WSN Board Chair Industrial risk assessment and root cause analysis project begins 2019 10th Anniversary Ontario Mine Rescue celebrates 90th Anniversary New workplace mental health workshops Approved provider of new WSIB Health and Safety Paul Andre Excellence program WSN President & Chief Executive Officer Inaugural Thunder Bay Health and Safety Conference Live online training introduced New Ontario safety training for people accessing forest roads Winner of Canada Awards for Excellence 5 WSN Strategy 2020 Goal 1: Target Areas of Greatest Need Vulnerability in the Workplace Highest Hazards • Small Business Sector Priorities • Underserved Northern Ontario Workplaces • Forest Products • First Nations • Mining • New, young, aging workers • Mine Rescue System Priorities • Falls from Heights • Occupational Disease • Mental Health Collaborative Integrated Service Engagement Partnerships Delivery Northern Centres Technology and Culture of OHS of Excellence E-service Goal 2: Enhance Service Delivery 6 Key Accomplishments • Ontario Mine Rescue responded to 11 fires 624 and one non-fire emergencies at underground mining operations Client consultations • Groundbreaking workplace health and safety research with partners to assess top risks, analyze 6,682 root causes, and develop control activities for Client consultation hours mining, sawmill, and logging sectors. • Northern Ontario Safety Group of 78 Ontario businesses showed a decrease in both the 8,399 number and severity of injuries in the workplace Participant training days - Prevention Services • Contributions to provincial strategy alongside Ontario health and safety system partners 8,266 • Six industry advisory committees help drive Participant training days - Mine Rescue health and safety innovation • More than 1,200 people attended 32 industry and community health and safety events across 97% northern Ontario and online Client satisfaction • More than 80 media stories promoting 95% workplace and community health and safety Employee satisfaction 7 Key Accomplishments Feed Your Brain lunch Free risk assessment template for and learn series creates safe community needle pick-up community connections Keith Birnie, Elisha Malette, Angele Poitras The lunch and learn series helps northern worked to create a free risk assessment template communities, human resources and health and in partnership with Sudbury Action Centre for safety staff stay on top of the latest health and Youth and made it available free of charge to all safety issues, including violence and harassment communities. Along with the free risk assessment in the workplace, leadership essentials, workplace template, a video resource is also posted on the culture, opioids, mental health, and distracted WSN website to help train workplace parties in driving. Thirteen free sessions were attended safe and effective needle clean-up. With offices in by 109 different companies, with 56 requests for downtown Sudbury and headquarters in North Bay, follow-ups. Eighty-nine per cent would attend WSN chose to be part of the solution with regards another session, and 86 per cent learned something to the opioid epidemic and the large quantity of new to take to their workplace. used needles found in public areas. 8 Key Accomplishments New and young worker resources and artwork WSN answered the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development’s call and created new resources, including health and safety checklists for employer, supervisor, parent-guardian, and worker. WSN held its annual student art challenge with 14 submissions from two Thunder Bay high schools Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School and Superior Collegiate High School. Diamonds in the Rough did a presentation on women in mine rescue at Sudbury-area Lively District High school. Mental health credentials and new offerings WSN has two staff who received Psychological Health and Safety Advisor certification from the Canadian Mental Health Association, with a third to come. More than 20 mental health sessions have been held for over 600 people. Six new workshops have been developed for a total of eight sessions on topics such as stigma, resilience, and young worker mental health. A new workplace mental health resource section was created on the website. Internally, WSN introduced ‘Take your dog to work’ day, and launched special thank you cards for staff. Safety culture assessment projects WSN conducted its first safety culture assessment in the public not-for-profit sector using the Climate Audit and Assessment Tool (CAAT); and a first strategy session post-CAAT to help close gaps. It wrapped up a 24-month window for Ontario Mining Association firms to complete their baseline safety culture assessments.