WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s learning collaboratives

WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s learning collaboratives meet regularly to analyze a range of complex workplace safety issues to uncover, test and develop systemic improvements.

The workplace safety learning collaboratives are industry-led, team-based and interactive, creating a platform to address safety issues affecting Saskatchewan workplaces. Industry leaders, employers and safety experts work together to improve workplace safety through:

  • data-driven, evidence-based information
  • problem-solving
  • applying quality improvement methods
  • shared learning

… to create a stronger safety workplace culture in Saskatchewan.

By pooling collective knowledge and experiences in a supportive environment, learning collaborative participants can identify systemic issues, brainstorm solutions and implement effective, sustainable safety practices that can benefit workplaces across our province.

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WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s learning collaboratives

  • Return-to-work learning collaborative focused on return-to-work planning.
  • Health care learning collaborative focused on reducing musculoskeletal injuries by shifting to disposable soaker pads.
  • First responders’ learning collaborative focused on psychological health monitoring mobile app implementation.
  • Construction learning collaborative focused on a ladder assessment tool to prevent falls from ladders.
  • Transportation learning collaborative focused on piloting a driver safety assessment to reduce the risk of motor vehicle collisions.
  • Transit learning collaborative focused on reducing violence through identification of hot spots, connecting community partners and provincial public awareness campaigns.
  • Construction and mining learning collaborative focused on identifying proactive and leading indicators, and creating a severity dashboard.
  • Community living learning collaborative focused on reducing incidents of violence in the workplace.
  • Roadwork learning collaborative focused on work zone safety.

Suggest a new industry learning collaborative

WorkSafe Saskatchewan is open to supporting new industry learning collaboratives. If you or your industry leaders have an idea for a new learning collaborative and are looking to participate and bring others together, please reach out to tepcoordinator@wcbsask.com.

Benefits of industry learning collaboratives

WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s learning collaboratives offer many realized benefits as a collective approach to address complex safety issues that exist in industries across the province. A fundamental aspect of the learning collaboratives is the focus on systemic problem-solving and probing to reveal the underlying systemic factors that may have contributed to a workplace injury or incident.

Learning collaboratives empower organizations to make safety enhancements that improve both safety and operational performance (or something similar removing punitive language).

Learning collaboratives are structured to build trust and enhance safety cultures by:

  • Promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Supporting team-based learning and growth.
  • Encouraging shared learning and new perspectives.
  • Establishing peer measured quality improvement methods.
  • Focusing on systemic issues and complex safety issues.
  • Applying action-oriented safety concepts.

How learning collaboratives work

WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s learning collaboratives serve as co-operative groups dedicated to examining workplace incidents, near-misses and challenging or hazardous work, with an emphasis on learning and enhancement instead of assigning culpability. Learning collaboratives bring together the diverse perspectives of industry and safety leaders, and employees across many organizational levels.

The WorkSafe Saskatchewan learning collaboratives include front-line workers, supervisors and safety leaders to generate discussion and problem-solving on workplace health, safety and well-being. This collective approach not only deepens the understanding of the issues, but also cultivates a culture where members are recognized and empowered to engage in safety conversations. Learning collaboratives:

  • Are formed to tackle complex safety issues that affect industry.
  • Meet regularly as part of a knowledge exchange and to share insights, best practices and lessons learned from incidents.
  • Take a structured view to problem-solving that is evidence-based and uses data and quality improvement tools to analyze issues, brainstorm solutions and develop action plans.
  • Generate proposed solutions that can be tested and put into practice, and solution effectiveness is monitored and adjusted as needed.
  • Support new knowledge and practices into broader daily operations to help build a lasting culture of safety and sustained change.

Interested in joining a WorkSafe Saskatchewan learning collaborative?

For information about WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s learning collaboratives and how you can participate, contact WorkSafe Saskatchewan through the WCB’s prevention department:

WorkSafe Saskatchewan
200 – 1881 Scarth St.
Regina SK S4P 4L1

Toll free: 800.667.7590
Fax: 306.787.4311
Toll free Fax: 888.844.7773
Email: tepcoordinator@wcbsask.com