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 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 , 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. The safety culture team expanded with two more staff trained as lead auditors using CAAT. Two CAAT offerings were finalized and released to help firms achieve sustainable health and safety results: CAAT Essentials and IRS CAAT.

9 Key Accomplishments

Leadership+ training material and Innovation in technology and pilot projects audit data management Leadership+ parameters defined, including Leveraged WSN-owned custom built Continuum training material piloted along with assessments software to perform, standardize, and execute throughout 2020. Assessment portion linked back legislative compliance audits. By the end of 2019, to safety culture CAAT criteria and focused on the compliance audits were developed and executed pieces that made a difference. Currently, piloting to assess organizational compliance with the training material with not-for-profit, software Occupational Health and Safety Act and Industrial company, and a mine site. Establishment Regulations.

Industrial hygiene service sees Milestone Provincial Competition increased demand Mine rescue volunteers from K+S Windsor Salt An increased demand was noted and WSN added Ojibway Mine know how to mark an occasion, a second dedicated resource. WSN reached out to celebrating the 90th anniversary of Ontario Mine all core sectors and provided industrial hygiene Rescue and the 70th annual Ontario Mine Rescue support to mining as well as many paper and wood Provincial Competition, by winning their first- product industry clients. ever champions’ gold hard hats in the 2019 event at Red Lake Gold Mines in Red Lake. Newmont Canada, Porcupine Gold Mines placed second in the competition. Jean-Yves Doiron, of Vale Canada, placed first in the Provincial Technician Competition.

10 Key Accomplishments

90th Anniversary of Ontario Mine Rescue OMR marked 2019 as the 90th anniversary since its creation following the 1928 Hollinger Mine Fire tragedy with a special edition of the Link Line newsletter, the 70th Ontario Provincial Mine Rescue Competition, and media attention from across the province. As well, the theme of the 2019 Mining Health and Safety Conference was mine emergency preparedness and included a presentation on the history of the organization by Ted Hanley, vice president of OMR. Hanley expressed appreciation to all who have trained with the organization and taken their knowledge and experience back into the Ontario mining industry.

Structural Collapse Training Ontario Mine Rescue Officers attended the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Structural Collapse Technician program at the Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia. The program encompasses a focus on tunnel collapse that parallels a mining environment and included theory and practical exercises.

Iron Man Volunteer Newmont Red Lake Gold Mines volunteer rescuer Dave Hays was recognized at the 2019 Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial Competition for 25 consecutive years of district and provincial mine rescue competitions. Hays topped the accomplishment with a victory, defeating a field of eight veteran mine rescuers in a competition to field test a BG174. Hays first competed in the 1994 provincial competition and qualified for the provincial 15 times, competing as a team member, vice captain, captain, briefing officer, and technician.

11 Key Accomplishments

Ground Control As part of the CPO directive program, WSN focused its efforts in assisting mining sector firms in improving their ground control programs and practices. WSN collaborated with the Ground Control Technical Advisory Committee in preparing technical reference documents to assist mining sector firms in developing their ground control programs, as required by legislation.

Community connections - partnerships and consulting • CANNAMM training partnership regarding drug and alcohol awareness training for supervisors • Canadian Diamond Drillers Association: Joint ventures • Health and safety conferences in Timmins and Thunder Bay in partnership with Public Services Health and Safety Association • Ministry of Northern Mines and Development: Annual new staff day • Sudbury Action Centre for Youth: Risk Registry for safe community needle pick-up • Spark Employment Services: Successful grant to train staff in Leadership Plus, then train youth • Steps for Life Sudbury – Helped host large event and raise charitable funds • NORCAT Partnerships to promote workplace health and safety initiatives • MDEC partnership to host annual conference • Ontario Waste Water Certification Office: Director-approved continuing education units • Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program: Youth and mental health presentation to all OYA coordinators across Ontario

12 Making Workplaces Safer

The Year in Numbers: Ontario Mining and Forest Products Sectors

Mining Forestry Paper, Printing and Converting 110 - Gold Mine 030 - Logging 039 - Pulp, Newsprint, and Specialty Papers 113 - Nickel Mines 033 - Mill Products and Forestry Services 041 - Corrugated Boxes 119 - Other Mines 036 - Veneer, Plywood 333 - Printing, Platemaking, and Binding 999 - Schedule 2 Employers 338 - Folding Cartons 341 - Paper Products

Service Delivery 2018 2019 Client consultations 2,574 625* Participant training days - Prevention Services 7,703 8,399 Participant training days - Mine Rescue 7,527 8,266 Information products distributed 315,798 583,489 WSN Member lost-time injury rate 0.79 0.73 WSN Member total injury rate 4.05 3.95

Forestry 2018 2019 Full-time equivalent workers 10,129 10,273 Lost-time injury rate 1.64 1.47 Total injury rate 7.68 7.33

Paper, Printing and Converting 2018 2019 FTE workers 51,412 49,181 LTI rate 0.77 0.68 TI rate 2.81 2.70

Mining and Other Steel 2018 2019 FTE workers 44,600 46,189 LTI rate 0.62 0.62 TI rate 4.66 4.52

Lost-time injury (LTI) and total injury (TI) frequency rates are a ratio of the injuries reported per 100 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees for the injury year specified. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Enterprise Information Warehouse * New MLTSD definition of Client Consultation in 2019, prior year data based on old definition.

13 Making Workplaces Safer

A Decade of Safety: Ontario Mining and Forest Products Sectors

10 Year Statistics 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 WSN Member Lost-time Injury Rate 1.00 1.10 0.90 0.70 0.70 0.62 0.69 0.73 0.79 0.73 WSN Member Total Injury Rate 4.90 5.00 4.60 4.20 4.00 3.86 3.86 3.81 4.05 3.95

Forestry FTE 8,064 9,529 9,455 9,663 10,762 10,593 10,129 10,273 LTI Rate 2.20 1.90 1.66 1.57 1.43 1.72 1.67 1.76 1.64 1.47 Total Rate 7.66 7.12 6.85 7.92 6.53 7.18 7.68 7.33

Mining and Other Steel FTE 45,049 44,068 43,478 43,358 41,288 42,558 44,600 46,189 LTI Rate 0.80 1.00 0.75 0.64 0.53 0.49 0.48 0.65 0.62 0.62 Total Rate 5.69 5.01 4.58 4.38 4.52 4.68 4.66 4.52

Paper, Printing and Converting FTE 52,181 53,345 48,875 48,897 49,318 51,988 51,412 49,181 LTI Rate 0.70 0.80 0.65 0.57 0.60 0.52 0.65 0.60 0.77 0.68 Total Rate 2.91 2.63 2.73 2.61 2.71 2.41 2.81 2.70

Prevention Services Participant Training Days 5,958 7,638 7,733 7,664 7,703 8,399 Mine Rescue Participant Training Days 6,500 6,669 7,038 7,228 7,527 8,266 Information Products Distributed 160,512 170,211 217,203 165,090 315,798 583,489

14 Workplace Health and Safety Snapshot for Ontario Forestry, Paper, Printing, and Converting Sector in 2019

59,455 Full-time employees

2 1 2,085 487 3.51 -2.8% Injury Disease* Total Lost-time Total injury rate Change in injury rate Work-related fatalities injuries injuries per 100 workers from previous year

Events resulting in lost-time injury or illness Injury or illness severe enough to require one or more days lost from work

42% 32% 19% 7% Bodily reaction and exertion Contact with objects Falls Other (excessive physical effort, free or equipment (falls on same level, falls or (highway or non-highway bodily motion that results (struck by or against objects, jumps to lower levels) incidents; pedestrian struck in stress or strain on the caught in or compressed by vehicle, mobile equipment; body, assuming an unnatural by equipment, objects, or exposure to: hot objects, position, and repetitive collapsing materials, rubbed electrical energy, cold; motion) or abraded by friction or caustic, noxious or allergenic pressure) subs; witnessing traumatic event; explosion, etc.)

Top 3 Occupational Diseases Based on approved WSIB claims for healthcare, being off work, loss of wages, or permanent disability. 129 34 7 Noise-induced hearing loss Injury and poisonings Exposure includes exposure to caustic, noxious, or includes exposure to chemical agent, allergenic substances; inhalation in open dust, and chemical hazards or nonconfined space; struck against stationary object

*Disease fatality claims with a fatality effective date of 2019. Source: WSIB Enterprise Information Warehouse as of March 31, 2020. RG 030, 033, 036, 039, 041, 333, 338, 341 15 Workplace Health and Safety Snapshot for Ontario Mining Sector in 2019

23,455 Full-time employees

0 6 975 157 4.16 +1.0% Injury Disease* Total Lost-time Total injury rate Change in injury rate Work-related fatalities injuries injuries per 100 workers from previous year

Events resulting in lost-time injury or illness Injury or illness severe enough to require one or more days lost from work

40% 27% 17% 16% Bodily reaction and exertion Contact with objects Other Falls (excessive physical effort, or equipment (inhalation in enclosed space; (falls to floor walkway or free bodily motion that (struck by or against object; exposure to caustic, noxious, other surface) results in stress or strain caught in, crushed, or or allergenic substance, on the body, assuming an compressed by equipment, electrical energy, hot objects, unnatural position, and objects or collapsing substances; vehicle, mobile repetitive motion) materials; and rubbed, equipment, struck stationary abraded, or jarred by friction, object; non-collision accident; pressure, or vibration)pre sexual assault)

Top 3 Occupational Diseases Based on approved WSIB claims for healthcare, being off work, loss of wages, or permanent disability. 93 34 27 Noise-induced hearing loss Hand-arm vibration syndrome Injury and poisoning, includes burns, superficial injuries, heat exhaustion and toxic effects of gases, bee and wasp stings

*Disease fatality claims with a fatality effective date of 2019. Source: WSIB Enterprise Information Warehouse as of March 2020. RG 110, 113, 119.. 16 In Your Community

RED LAKE ONTARIO

HEARST DRYDEN KAPUSKASING COCHRANE

TIMMINS

THUNDER BAY WAWA NEW LISKEARD

SUDBURY SAULT STE. MARIE NORTH BAY

BELLEVILLE

MISSISSAUGA

BRANTFORD

DELAWARE

Location of WSN offices, Health and Safety Specialists and Ontario Mine Rescue Officers

Northwestern Northeastern Central Ontario

Dryden Hearst Sault Ste. Marie 1 OHS Specialist 1 OHS Specialist 1 OHS Specialist Red Lake Kapuskasing North Bay 1 OMR Officer 1 OHS Specialist WSN Headquarters and Training Centre Thunder Bay Cochrane 2 OHS Specialists 2 OHS Specialists 1 OHS Specialist 2 Program-Training Specialists 1 Open Pit and Surface Operations Timmins Sudbury Specialist 2 OHS Specialists OMR Headquarters and WSN Training Centre 1 OMR Officer 2 OMR Officers 3 OMR Officers 3 OHS Specialists Wawa Kirkland Lake 1 Emergency Services Specialist 1 OMR Officer 2 OMR Officers 1 Culture, Learning, Development and White River New Liskeard Audit Specialist 1 OMR Officer 1 OHS Specialist 1 Ground Control Specialist 1 Industrial Hygiene and Specialist 1 Industrial Hygiene and Ventilation Specialist 1 Community Engagement Specialist Belleville 1 Program-Training Specialist Mississauga 1 OHS Specialist Brantford 1 OHS Specialist Delaware 1 OMR Officer 17 Education Programs and Information Resources

Programs reviewed using small business lens Top 10 Instructor-led Virtual and Classroom Health and During this reporting year, WSN reviewed all CPO-approved Safety Training Programs programs using the small business lens developed by the system partners’ Small Business Action Plan Implementation team to confirm 1. Ontario Mine Rescue Refresher program material met the needs of small business. 2. Working at Heights • JHSC Part 1 • JHSC Part 2 Safety Training • JHSC Refresher • Forestry 3. Ontario Mine Rescue District Standardized • Working at Heights Safety • Mining Evaluation Training Training • Pulp and Paper 4. JHSC Certification • Working at Heights Refresher • Printing and Converting Training Part 1

5. Competent Supervisor • General • Offices 6. Working Safely with Propane • Manufacturing 7. OHS Act and Mining Regulations 8. Incident Investigation: Mining 9. Working at Heights Refresher 10. Introduction to Safety Programs

18 Education Programs and Information Resources

New health and safety training material Top Self-paced E-learning Health and Safety • Illustrations for Mine Rescue Equipment Technical manual Training Programs • Introduction to Auditor Training 1. Mechanical Harvesting- • Joint Health and Safety Committee – Part 2 (General) Forestry Pit and Road • Leadership essentials (Leadership+): Handling difficult Construction Equipment conversations; Coaching for success; Self-awareness; Personal Operator Common beliefs and values; Effective communication; Signature Strengths Core Training • Mindful Driving, Young Workers Mental Health webinars, and 2. Opérateur de machines Virtual Mining Conference videos d’exploitation mécanisée, de carrières et de construction • New and Young worker workshops (1 hour, half day, and full day) de routes en forêt • New French program: Comité mixte sur la santé et sécurité au 3. Customized Mechanical travail: Formation à lagrément : partie 2 (générale) Harvesting • Safe Driving on Forest Roads (Classroom version) including 4. Transportation of 10 new videos Dangerous Goods • Supervisor Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training 5. Practical Loss • Support of webinars (Understanding Mental Health – Setting Control Leadership Students up for Success) 6. Health and Safety Representative Basic Training • Video promoting safe needle pickup and WSN Risk Registry

19 Education Programs and Information Resources

Updated health and safety training material Top 10 Website Downloads • Duly Diligent Mining Supervisor 1. Small Business Health and • 3-Day Generic Train-the-Trainer Safety Checklist – MLTSD • Effective Machine Guarding 2. Working in the Heat infographic – CCOHS • Joint Health and Safety Committee Effectiveness 3. Working in the Cold • Joint Health and Safety Committee – Part 1 infographic – CCOHS • Joint Health and Safety Committee Refresher 4. Truck Driver Standard Operating Procedure – WSN • Competent Supervisor 5. Beat the Heat Safety Meeting • Hazardous Materials Spill Response presentation – WSN • Yard Loader Safety Training 6. Hazard Alert: Heat • Introduction Mine Rescue course Stress – WSN • New versions of Working at Heights and Working at 7. Sun Safety poster – CCOHS Heights Refresher 8. WHMIS Workplace Hazardous • Updating MHEO online program update to accommodate tablet Materials poster – WSN usage and upgrade images (French and English versions) 9. Working at Heights Refresher Training information sheet – WSN 10. Heat Stress Awareness Guide – Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario

20 Education Programs and Information Resources

Information Resources Top 10 News Articles • Bi-monthly e-newsletter plus bi-monthly events email 1. Winter is coming: What to • 2020 OHS Training and Services catalogue wear for outdoor work • Information sheets: Young Worker Safety Workshops, JHSC Refresher 2. How to manage heat stress in the workplace Training, Climate Assessment and Audit Tool 3. Top 7 significant changes to • Brochure and webpage: Health and Safety Excellence program federal WHMIS law • Hazard Alert: Honeywell recall retractable lifelines 4. When is it too hot to work? • New and Young Worker Guide updated and checklist each for worker, 5. A step-by-step guide: What parent-guardian, supervisor and employer to expect from a Ministry of • Statistical health and safety infographics for the following Labour visit rate group sectors: mining; logging; sawmill; tree planting; 6. New WHMIS course corrugating; folding cartons; paper products; printing, updates for 2019 platemaking, and binding; pulp, newsprint, and specialty papers; 7. What is a critical injury? veneer, plywood and wood preservation 8. Health and safety checklist for small business owners 9. What’s new and changing for workplace health and safety in 2019 10. Is your drug and alcohol policy up to date?

21 Education Programs and Information Resources

In the news: WSN media coverage More than 80 articles, interviews, and mentions in local and national media, including CBC, CTV News, Northern Ontario Business, Canadian Occupational Safety magazine, and more. Below are a few examples. Apr. 9, 2019: Mining health and safety conference in Sudbury Apr. 11, 2019: Mental health study results presented at conference May 2, 2019: Substance use top health and safety risk in Ontario sawmills Jun. 12, 2019: Windsor Salt mine rescue workers take top prize at provincial competition Aug. 14, 2019: Big Daddy Tazz to talk mental health in the workplace at second annual health and safety conference Sept. 27, 2019: Sonoco, Domtar win safety excellence awards from Workplace Safety North Nov. 11, 2019: North Bay’s Workplace Safety North wins gold Dec. 12, 2019: Sudbury group develops risk registry for safe needle disposal Dec. 23, 2019: Workplace Safety North launches Safe Driving on Forest Roads course Feb. 14, 2020: Safety has to be part of every step of implementing battery electric vehicles Apr. 17, 2020: Virtual Mining Health and Safety Conference

22 Education Programs and Information Resources

Online health and safety community continues to grow

Social media audience growth by channel

Channel Audience Growth (Net) Growth Rate Total Audience Facebook 98 33.22% 393 LinkedIn 1,071 46.61% 3,369 Twitter 350 11.35% 3,433 YouTube 707 49.34% 2,140 Instagram 1,017 Total online community 10,352

Website Traffic

Users New Users Sessions (visits) Pageviews 148,961 146,268 226,763 544,168

23 Forest Products Advisory Committee

Douglas Groff (Chair) Forest Products Industry Director, Health, Safety and Environment Advisory Committee DATA Communications Management, Brampton highlights over past 10 years

Mark Lovell (Vice-Chair) • Regular and sector-specific Corporate Safety Manager guidance on programs, Jones Packaging, London products, and services

Hillary Allard • Regular assessment of injury WSIB, Training, Health and Safety Manager trends based on both lagging Columbia Forest Products, Rutherglen and leading indicators • Supported development of David Berry industry sector infographics Human Resources Manager Resolute Forest Products, Thunder Bay • Supported advancement of pre-employment safety Marilyn Findlay training for First Nations Health and Safety Manager • Supported advancement of the Domtar, Dryden Safety Groups program and Ron Isaac transition to the Health and Health and Safety, and Environment Superintendent Safety Excellence program Rayonier Advanced Materials, Kapuskasing • Supported and guided the completion of the following Jocelyn Lagacé priority sector risk assessment Health and Safety, and Loss Prevention Manager and root cause analysis that EACOM Timber Corporation provide industry with leading Claude Thibeault indicators of workplace risks, Operations Manager root causes, and supporting First Resource Management Group, Englehart control measures: • Sawmill sector risk Mark Tranter assessment and root Corporate Health and Safety Coordinator cause analysis Atlantic Packaging Products, Scarborough • Logging sector risk assessment and root Provincial Forestry Tripartite Committee cause analysis WSN participates in an industry-led Provincial Forestry Tripartite • Pulp and paper sector risk Committee which plays an integral role in development of Ministry of assessment and planned Labour, Training and Skills Development (MLTSD) modular training root cause analysis programs for the forestry industry.

24 Mining Advisory Committee

Dennis Sobey (Chair) Mining and Technical Manager, Health and Safety Advisory Committees’ Dumas, Timmins highlights over past 10 years

Chris Bamberger • Industry guidance on Manager, Learning and Development, programs, products, and Representing, Mining Tripartite Committee Vale, Sudbury services, including annual Michael Ferguson mining health and safety Senior Products Design Engineer conference Boart Longyear, North Bay • Regular assessment of injury trends based on both lagging Clare Foladore and leading indicators Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator Vale – Exploration, Sudbury • Supported and participated in the formal review of health Mike Huard and safety in the Ontario Mill Operator-President of USW Local 7580 mining sector known as the Gordcorp, Timmins Mining Health, Safety and Dan Laing Prevention Review (MHSPR) Project Manager, Mining Sector undertaken by the Ministry of Stantec, Sudbury Labour in 2014-2015 Louise Lowe • Advised on development Executive Director of Climate Assessment Diamond Drillers Association, North Bay and Audit Tool to support Mining Review requirements Jamie Mortson to develop and implement Corporate Health and Safety Superintendent internal responsibility Alex MacIntyre and Associates, Kirkland Lake system best practices Al Robb • Advised WSN on creation and Unifor Rep, Compass Minerals distribution of information Goderich Mine, Wingham resulting from the mining sector risk assessment Draper Selman Environment, Health and Safety Coordinator • Supported and participated Boart Longyear, Red Lake in the completion of mining sector guided risk assessment Darren Toner and in the follow-up risk Health, Safety and Environment Manager assessment root-cause Vale, Sudbury analysis in ground control and mobile equipment Technical Advisory Committees • Supported development The WSN Mining Advisory Committee also oversees four Technical of industry infographics Advisory Committees (TACs) made up of volunteers from the including health effects of mining industry: ground control, mobile equipment, workplace diesel exhaust, and proper use environment, and mine rescue. TACs also help spearhead research of respirators in mines and partnerships with universities. Thank you to the many volunteers mining plants and your sponsoring organizations – your contributions are critical to advancing health and safety.

25 Ontario Mine Rescue Technical Advisory Committee

Iain McKillip (Chair) Mine Rescue Technical Glencore Kidd Operations Advisory Committee Timmins District Industry Representative highlights over past 10 years

Andre Lefebvre (Vice Chair) • Collaboration with York Glencore, Sudbury INO, Fraser Mine University on research Active Mine Rescue Volunteers’ Representative into Mine Rescue Team Dynamics Under Stress Jim Ahrens Compass Minerals, Goderich Mine • Co-hosted, with WSN, the Southern District Industry Representative 2013 International Mines Rescue Body Conference Brad Bastien • Co-hosted, with WSN, the Glencore Sudbury INO, Fraser Mine 2016 International Mines Onaping District Industry Representative Rescue Competition Shaun Carter • Collaboration with Centre Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development for Research in Occupational Government MLTSD Representative Safety and Health on research into the physical Dan Demers demands of mine rescue Alamos Gold, Young Davidson Mine activities on volunteers Kirkland Lake District Industry Representative • Prepared, completed, and Greg MacMillan issued 2010 Mutual Aid Vale, Creighton Mine Agreement Report Sudbury District Industry Representative • Prepared, completed, and Jamie Mortson issued 2014 Mine Rescue McIntyre and Associates Heat Stress Report Ontario Mine Contractors Safety Association Industry Representative • Prepared, completed, and issued 2015 Mine Rescue Ron Ouellette Body Recovery Report Pure Gold Madsen Mine, Red Lake Red Lake District Industry Representative • Prepared, completed, and issued 2016 Mine Rescue Gord Paddock Refuge Station Report Impala Canada, Lac des Iles Mine • Research of new mine rescue Thunder Bay District Industry Representative equipment including the MX6 gas monitor, the FPS Vacant 7000 facemask, and Algoma District Industry Representative tablet computers Shawn Shail Kirkland Lake District Mine Rescue Officer Representative

26 Ontario Mine Rescue 2019 Provincial Competition Winners

First overall – K+S Windsor Salt, Ojibway Mine Mine Rescue Highlights Overall runner-up – Newmont Goldcorp, Porcupine Gold Mines 2012-14

Technicians Ontario Mine Rescue collaborates with York 1st – Jean-Yves Doiron, Vale Canada University in a study on team 2nd – Norm Gannon Jr., Kirkland Lake Gold, Macassa Mine dynamics under stress. 3rd – Steeve Pinel, Alamos Gold, Island Lake Gold Mine 2013 Ontario Mine Rescue and Team Firefighting – Newmont Goldcorp, Porcupine Gold Mines Workplace Safety North host Team First Aid – Glencore, Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations sixth biennial International John Guthrie Award (Special Equipment) – K+S Windsor Salt, Mines Rescue Body Conference Ojibway Mine in Niagara Falls and Sudbury, attracting almost 240 delegates Theory Exam Award – Newmont Goldcorp, Musselwhite Mine from 14 nations. 2016 Ontario Mine Rescue and Workplace Safety North host tenth biennial International Mines Rescue Competition in Sudbury, which attracted 27 teams from nations and five Canadian jurisdictions.

27 Ontario Mine Rescue Incident Statistics

Mine Rescue Mine Rescue Highlights Mine Rescue Inter-Mine Fire Non-Fire Operations Year Teams Mutual Aid Emergencies Emergencies Conducted Activated Operations 2018 (Total) More than 10 Ontario Mine 2008 14 4 52 18 Rescue volunteers and their 2009 5 2 41 7 families featured in Dragermen 2010 6 5 34 11 Stories, a series of mine rescue videos by Drager Safety. 2011 4 3 22 7 2012 15 1 51 16 2019 2013 8 7 48 15 Ontario Mine Rescue celebrates 90th anniversary of its creation 2014 6 5 54 11 in 1929, as well as 70th 2015 12 9 36 4 21 anniversary of the Ontario Mine Rescue Provincial Competition. 2016 17 7 24 4 24 2017 7 8 39 7 15 2018 7 8 33 3 15 2019 11 1 12 4 12 Total 112 60 446 22* 172

*Statistics begin in 2015

28 A Decade of Excellence

President’s Award Winners ACCO Brands, Kitchener Fleming’s Trucking and Logging, Shuniah Forest Products, Thunder Bay Alex MacIntyre and Associates, Sault Ste. Marie Sonoco Canada Trent Valley Mill, Kirkland Lake Kidd Operations, A Glencore Company, Trenton Brinkman and Associates Reforestation, Timmins Wellington Produce Packaging, Thunder Bay Kruger, Brampton Mount Forest Cementation Canada, North Bay Lake Shore Gold, Timmins WestRock Company of Canada., Guelph DeBeers Group of Companies, Victor Nordic Minesteel Technologies, Mine, James Bay Lowlands 90 km west North Bay of Attawapiskat North American Palladium - Lac des DMC Mining Services, Vaughan Iles Mine, Thunder Bay Workplace Excellence Award Winners Alamos Gold Inc. - Young-Davidson Mine, Goldcorp – Porcupine Gold Mines, Tembec - Kapuskasing Operations, South Porcupine Kapuskasing Alex MacIntyre and Associates, Goldcorp – Red Lake Gold Mines, Tembec, Forest Resource Management, Kirkland Lake Balmertown Northern Ontario, West, Hearst AuRico Gold Young - Davidson Mine, KGHM – Sudbury Operations, Sudbury Tembec, Forest Resource Management, Matachewan Kidd Operations – Glencore Canada, Northern Ontario, West, Kapuskasing Barrick Williams Mine, Marathon, ON Timmins Tembec, Forest Resource Management, Black Hawk Drilling Ltd., ON contract via Kirkland Lake Gold Macassa Mine, Northern Ontario, West, Opasatika Smithers, BC Kirkland Lake The Central Group, Mississauga Boart Longyear, Haileybury and North Bay Kirkland Lake Gold Taylor Complex, Tonolli Canada Ltd., Mississauga Brinkman and Associates Reforestation, Val Gagne Wallbridge Mining Company, Lively Thunder Bay Kirkland Lake Gold Holt Complex, Wellington Wood Products Ltd., Cementation Canada, North Bay Matheson Mount Forest DeBeers Group of Companies, Victor Label Supply, Whitby WestRock Company of Canada Inc., Mine, James Bay Lowlands 90 km west of Lac Des Iles Mine, Thunder Bay Guelph Attawapiskat Lake Shore Gold Corp., Timmins Weyerhaeuser, Kenora DMC Mining Services, Vaughan Newmont Goldcorp – Porcupine Gold Domtar, Dryden Mill, Dryden Mines, South Porcupine Domtar, Espanola, Espanola Newmont Goldcorp – Red Lake Gold Dumas Contracting, Timmins Mines, Balmertown EACOM Timber Corporation, Nordic Minesteel Technologies, North Bay Nairn Centre Redpath Canada, North Bay First Resource Management Group Inc., Resolute Forest Products, Thunder Bay Englehart Mill Operations Fleming’s Trucking and Logging, RW Forestry Inc., Thunder Bay, ON Hilton Beach SCR Mining and Tunnelling L.P., Glencore – Sudbury Integrated Nickel Val Caron Operations Shuniah Forest Products Ltd., Thunder Bay Haveman Brothers Forestry Services Ltd., Sonoco Canada Trent Valley Mill, Trenton Kakabeka Falls Tahoe Canada – Lake Shore Gold, Imerys Talc Canada Inc., Timmins Timmins Falconbridge, Sudbury Technica Mining, Lively

29 Top 10 Health and Safety Events of the Decade

April in Sudbury Annual Mining Health and Safety Conference As the premiere mining health and safety event in Canada, the typically sold-out Sudbury conference is livestreamed globally, and welcomes about 300 attendees to learn and share their knowledge about mining health and safety, and network with industry professionals. Event features keynote speakers and technical session presentations, an awards luncheon, and information exchange trade show.

2015 100 Years of Health and Safety in Forest Products Industries In 2015, Workplace Safety North and its legacy organizations celebrated 100 years of forestry and pulp and paper health and safety at the Northern Ontario Pulp, Paper and Sawmill Safety Forum in Thunder Bay. The event featured keynote speakers, workshop training sessions, industry networking, a trade show, and safety awards banquet.

2016 International Mines Rescue Competition In 2016, Ontario Mine Rescue and Workplace Safety North hosted the International Mines Rescue Competition. Twenty-seven teams, representing 13 nations and four Canadian provinces competed in the event in Sudbury. The competition set new international competition standards for realism, competitiveness, and transparency with judges from eight countries and five Canadian jurisdictions.

30 Top 10 Health and Safety Events of the Decade

2017 2019 New Sudbury location for Thunder Bay Health and Workplace Safety North and Safety Conference Ontario Mine Rescue headquarters On May 1, 2019, WSN, in partnership with PSHSA, In August 2017, WSN Sudbury offices and Ontario hosted about 200 attendees at its inaugural Mine Rescue headquarters relocated to larger facilities Thunder Bay Health and Safety Conference, at 235 Cedar Street in downtown Sudbury. The building themed. “Building safer communities.” Opening offers state-of-the-art classrooms for health and keynote speaker, comedian Big Daddy Tazz , spoke safety training – both classroom, online, and distance on mental health, and an expert panel addressed learning, in addition to specialized training facilities for how to navigate mental health issues in the mine rescue volunteers and working at heights safety workplace. training. On October 11, an open house was held for community members to meet staff and tour the new Ontario Mine Rescue celebrates occupational health and safety training centre. 90th anniversary In 2019, Ontario Mine Rescue celebrated its 90- 2018 year anniversary. The milestone was marked by Feed Your Brain Lunch and several celebrations including the 2019 Mining Health and Safety Conference themed ‘Preparing Learn Series for high-risk emergencies in mines.’ The event In January 2018, WSN launched the popular ‘Feed featured presentations from Mannas Fourie, Chief Your Brain’ lunch and learn series designed to help Executive Officer Mines Rescue Service in South northern Ontario businesses and communities stay Africa, Diamonds in the Rough, the first all-women on top of the latest health and safety issues. Session mine rescue team, as well as a panel that focused topics include mental health, stress, safety culture, on how mine rescue can be used as a development and drugs and alcohol in the workplace. tool for leadership. Timmins Health and 2020 Safety Conference Symposium: Battery Electric On September 5, 2018, WSN, in partnership with Vehicle Safety in Mines PSHSA, hosted about 200 attendees at its inaugural Timmins Health and Safety Conference. In February 2020 at its Sudbury office, Workplace Safety North hosted a popular new mining safety Student Artwork Challenge event on battery electric vehicles. More than 60 attendees learned about industry case studies, mine ‘Have the Safety Conversation’ rescue emergency response to battery fires, and In the fall of 2018, Workplace Safety North provided a risk assessment and training guidelines. A panel of health and safety awareness session to Grade 11 visual industry organizations discussed their experiences art students at Sudbury Secondary High School and adopting the technology. challenged them to visually represent what ‘having the safety conversation’ meant to them. The artwork Events hosted 2019-2020 was displayed at the opening reception of the annual WSN hosted 32 events –including conferences, Mining Health and Safety Conference and online. In workshops, and webinars – across the province for 2019, the artwork challenge was held again at two more than 1,500 attendees. high schools in Thunder Bay.

31 Staff Successes

Staff Service Loyalty Milestones 1 Year Scott Gillett Elisha Malette Keith Birnie Adrienne Allam Ted Greenwood

5 Years Penny Ratushniak Brandi Matthias Mario Langevin Rebecca Barrett Philip Dirige Ted Hanley

Staff Service Excellence Award Recipient Lindsay Digby

2020 Staff Survey Results 89% of staff said that WSN is a “great place to work”

Healthy Workplace WSN received a Gold 2019 Canada Award of Excellence from Excellence Canada in the Healthy Workplace category.

2019 Employer-supported volunteer hours Thirty-four WSN staff contributed 244 employer-supported hours towards community causes important to them. This included Meals on Wheels delivery, time spent serving on professional Boards, assisting with environmental initiatives, helping out at children’s recreational events, and assisting those in need.

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The 2019-2020 fiscal year financial results show WSN continues to operate sustainably in a time of fiscal restraint, exceeding its funded-level of service.

Thank you to the WSN Board of Directors for helping ensure accountability, transparency, and excellence in all that Workplace Safety North does.

Clyde Healey BA CHRP Sandra Haddad (Chair) Northern Representative-Retired, Haddad and Associates, Sudbury Sault Ste. Marie

Lydia Renton BSc CIH ROH FAIHA David Kelly (Vice-Chair) Underground Maintenance Director - Corporate Occupational Mechanic and Mine Hygiene and Safety Rescue Volunteer BluMetric Environmental, Ottawa Compass Minerals, Goderich

Normand Lavallee FCPA, FCA, John Benoit BA CRSP-NP FCMA, C.Dir. Northern Representative-Retired, Associate Vice President, Sudbury Financial Services Laurentian University, Sudbury

Tim Bremner John O’Brien B.Admin CRSP President JOB Training and Development, Foraco International, North Bay Thunder Bay

Gaëtan Carrier Andrew Tempelman BSc Health and Safety Worker’s Process Technician Representative Resolute Forest Products, Ryan Mill, Hearst Thunder Bay

Marshall Greensides CRSP Plant Manager Cascades Containerboard Packaging, Burlington

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34 WSN Vision and Values

Every worker, home safe and healthy

Compassion We put our heart into it.

Integrity We do the right thing.

Respect We give it. We earn it.

Team Spirit We are better together.

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