Elizabeth Mills, CEO of the Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), has been appointed to lead the organization being formed to amalgamate three of Ontario’s health and safety associations.

The province of Ontario has met its goal of reducing workplace injuries by 20 per cent over a four-year period, according to Minister of Labour Brad Duguid, as he addressed thousands of health and safety professionals at the opening ceremony of Health and Safety Canada 2008.

Journalists from Canadian Occupational Safety magazine and CBC Radio in Thunder Bay, Ont. became the first recipients of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association’s new Russ Ramsay Media Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety Reporting. The award was presented by IAPA president and CEO Maureen Shaw at the opening ceremony of the Health and Safety Canada 2008 conference and trade show in Toronto this week.

Canadian Occupational Safety magazine, Manufacturing Automation magazine, and a new online resource www.SaferMachines.com are creating a special machine automation safety pavilion and exhibit area at the Health and Safety Canada 2008 event, held by the Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) and attended by more than 8,000 delegates. 
 

The Industrial Accident Prevention Association has launched a new machine safety course dubbed, Interlocking Devices: Selection and Use. The initiative aims to drive down the number of people getting injured by machinery. 
 
“Most workplaces don’t realize they have a problem until the Ministry of Labour does an inspection or a machinery accident occurs that involves critical injuries that have lasting effects for the injured party, their co-workers, and the organization,” says Jim Armstrong, IAPA’s director of consulting services. 
 

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As company health and safety departments plan for the next fiscal year, professional development is an important item on many priority lists. Government agencies and safety associations invest months of planning, and a lot of money, to attract health and safety professionals to their out-of-office seminars, trade shows and conferences, but it's hard to know which of these events will be worth the time and money.