WorkSafe Saskatchewan celebrates workplace safety leaders during 2023 Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards Saskatoon, Sask., May 29, 2023 – Today WorkSafe Saskatchewan recognized safety leaders from around the province at its 2023 Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards. WorkSafe Saskatchewan, the partnership between the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) and the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, presented these awards in Saskatoon as part of the WCB’s 25th anniversary of Compensation Institute. “The winners of the 2023 WorkSafe Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards have shown a commitment to enhancing and implementing safety at their workplaces,” says Kevin Mooney, the WCB’s vice-president of prevention and employer services. “These awards celebrate those who make safety the priority at work. By supporting one another and sharing safety solutions, they inspire new generations of workers and employers in Saskatchewan to pursue Mission: Zero: zero injuries, zero fatalities and zero suffering at work.” Safe Worker [...]

Second strategy looks to continue work in reducing fatalities and serious injuries in the workplace 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. Today, 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 [...]