WorkSafe Saskatchewan celebrates workplace safety leaders during 2024 Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards Regina, Sask., May 15, 2024 – Today WorkSafe Saskatchewan recognized safety leaders from around the province at its 2024 Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards. WorkSafe Saskatchewan, a partnership between the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) and the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, presented these awards in Regina as part of the WCB’s Compensation Institute. “The winners of the 2024 WorkSafe Saskatchewan Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards have dedicated themselves to fostering and advancing safety within their workplaces,” says Kevin Mooney, the WCB’s vice-president of prevention and employer services. “These awards acknowledge the exemplary individuals and organizations that prioritize safety, encourage mutual support and share effective safety strategies. They serve as beacons for all workers and employers across the province as we strive to make Saskatchewan the safest place in Canada to work.” [...]

Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board Selects Sapiens to Transform its Core Workers’ Compensation System Rochelle Park, N.J., Nov. 9, 2023 - Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, announced today that the Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board (WCB), a provincially legislated body that administers the provincial compensation system on behalf of workers and employers, has selected Sapiens’ CoreSuite for Workers Compensation, DigitalSuite, and Intelligence to transform the WCB’s legacy core systems with a modern, integrated platform for efficient service delivery. The WCB will also use Sapiens’ cloud services for a seamless and secure hosting experience. Saskatchewan WCB is looking to meet customers’ evolving needs by replacing their core workers compensation systems to increase operational efficiency through automated workflows and work management. The WCB’s selection of CoreSuite for Workers Compensation was prompted by its easily configurable, out-of-the box functionality and proven, purpose-built [...]

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 [...]

WorkSafe Saskatchewan celebrates workplace safety leaders during 2022 Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards Regina, Sask., May 17, 2022 – A Saskatoon brewery employee who significantly advanced health and safety at work during the COVID-19 pandemic and an energy firm in Midale that has been free of serious workplace injuries for a decade are being honoured by WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s 2022 Safe Worker and Safe Employer Awards. The annual awards recognize outstanding workplace safety practices in the province. WorkSafe Saskatchewan is a partnership between the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) and the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety. This year’s Safe Worker Award goes to Cassy M. Appelt, an operations analyst at 9 Mile Legacy Brewing Company in Saskatoon. At the start of the pandemic, Cassy took the initiative to research and communicate safety and hygiene protocols to employees. She further built on these efforts by establishing and leading the [...]

Firefighter cancer remains second leading cause of work-related occupational disease deaths in Sask. WorkSafe Sask. announces new video training series to help support the prevention of firefighter cancer Regina, Sask., Jan. 31, 2022 – Firefighter cancer is the second leading cause of work-related occupational disease deaths in Saskatchewan. From 2010 to 2018, 23 per cent of work-related occupational disease fatalities in Saskatchewan were from firefighter cancers and in 2020, five firefighters lost their lives to cancer. To help address this, WorkSafe Saskatchewan (the partnership between the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) and the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety) announced a new video resource series to help firefighters better protect themselves from incidents and exposures on the job. “Improving firefighter cancer prevention is one of the top priorities in WorkSafe Saskatchewan’s Fatalities and Serious Injuries Strategy, launched in 2019. As part of the strategy, we worked with industry experts to [...]

Saskatchewan Association for Safe Workplaces in Health (SASWH) signs new funding agreement with the WCB New funding agreement strengthens partnership with the WCB Regina, Sask., June 7, 2021 – The Saskatchewan Association for Safe Workplaces in Health (SASWH) is the latest of seven provincial safety associations to sign a new funding agreement with the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB). This agreement works to strengthen the WCB’s partnership and close working relationship with each safety association as we all work together to create safer workplaces in Saskatchewan. “The WCB has long-standing close ties with our safety associations, including SASWH, to help work toward creating safer workplaces in our province through awareness, training and other injury prevention initiatives,” says Kevin Mooney, vice-president of prevention and employer services. “Our partnerships with safety associations are key to our workplace safety efforts across the province. These close partnerships help us support the safety and prevention [...]