Blog Post #1651 – Saskatchewan’s ‘Second Strategy’ to Continue Work in Reducing Fatalities, Injuries

Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2023)

In 2019, WorkSafe Saskatchewan, a partnership between the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) and the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, launched the first three-year Fatalities and Serious Injuries Strategy in an effort to help eliminate workplace fatalities and serious injuries.

Last month, the it announced a new five-year strategy is being launched that focuses on two key streams of work that will be undertaken to reduce injuries and fatalities – a regulatory and enforcement stream, and a prevention and learning stream.

“Workplace safety is everyone’s responsibility,” Labour Relations and Workplace Safety Minister Don Morgan said. “This new strategy continues to make working with stakeholders to eliminate workplace injuries and fatalities in our province a priority. Everyone deserves to come home safely at the end of the day.”

“Collaboration with stakeholders is critical to bringing our injury rate down,” WCB Board Chair Gord Dobrowolsky said. “Building on the work of the last strategy, we will continue to engage workers and employers in finding ways to keep all workers safe on the job.”

Under this strategy, the three main priority workplace sectors of focus are:

• Health care
• Transportation
• Construction

These industries were chosen due to the high-risk nature of their work, it said, noting that about 2,400 Saskatchewan workers are seriously injured each year.

Saskatchewan’s “Second Strategy” is actually the 2023-2028 ‘Fatalities and Serious Injuries Strategy’, launched by WorkSafe Saskatchewan, to continue reducing workplace deaths and injuries through enhanced prevention, enforcement, education, and collaborations between the Workers Compensation Board (WCB) and the Occupational Health and Safety Division of the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety. 

My opinion

I am always a big fan of any provincial initiative that attempts to improve the workplace safety. Safety culture in a workplace is doable and does not have to be costly. Saskatchewan has been relatively quiet in this regard so the initiative is a welcome site.

Well done, Saskatchewan!

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