M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 IAPA Collaborating Centre Report – 2005 CIS Meeting September 18, 2005 Maureen C. Shaw, President & CEO IAPA (Industrial Accident Prevention Association) IAPA (4272)

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005  Healthy workplace strategy  Small Business Centre  Centre for Health and Safety Innovation  CEO Health and Safety Leadership Charter  First Four Weeks – a new youth strategy  Web-based access to information  Mental Health at Work…From Defining to solving the problem (Laval University)  IAPA Collaborating Centre Activities New Initiatives at IAPA

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 A comprehensive, integrated approach To create a Healthy Workplace requires a comprehensive and integrated approach that considers the physical and psychosocial work environments and health practices of employees, and which addresses both the physical and mental health of employees. IAPA’s Health Strategic Plan

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 IAPA’s Health Strategy Vision All organizations strategically integrate psychosocial, health practices and physical work environment considerations into their management systems for the purpose of fostering healthy workplace environments that support employees’ physical and mental health and well-being.

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl Integrate a Healthy Workplace approach into our overall consulting process (IAPA Client Engagement Process - ICEP); and integrate the messages that support a Healthy Workplace approach into our Programs, Products and Services. 2.Through the use of a Healthy Workplace approach in our dealings with clients, increase the ability of organizations to manage in such a way as to optimize outcomes for employees, the organization and society at large. 3.Increase IAPA’s sustainability by demonstrating a leadership role in workplace health, safety and well-being. IAPA’s Health Strategy Goals

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 A new IAPA website feature Small businesses make up the majority of Ontario firms. Ninety percent (about 260,000 firms) have fewer than 50 employees and employ almost a third of the provincial workforce. The OHS performance of small businesses has on average been poor. What the small business sector needs is a greater awareness of OHS issues, increased OHS training and education, and improved access to support services. Small Business Centre

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 A new IAPA website feature Small Business Centre The Small Business Centre is a self-service component of IAPA’s web site that walks visitors through four simple but powerful steps that outline what they need to know to meet their legal obligations and protect workers, consequently providing a health and safety roadmap for small businesses.

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005  Introduction  How Health & Safety Works in Ontario  Getting Started  Health & Safety Roadmap: Step 1- Know your legal obligations Step 2- Recognize, assess & control hazards Step 3- Provide information and training Step 4- Measure, evaluate and improve  Self Assessment forms  Health & Safety Inquiry Form  Small Business links Visit IAPA’s Small Business Centre at Current content of IAPA’s Online Small Business Centre

Benefits  Nexus for health & safety and applied research  Provide innovative distance and technology- based learning programs  Encourage excellence in health and safety studies and performance  Develop new safety programs for at-risk employees  Partnerships with four Associations

Purpose The charter is intended to support the continuous improvement of healthy and safe workplaces. It is founded on the principle that effectively managing health, safety and wellness is essential to the operation of a successful business. Participation in this charter is a visible commitment from business leaders to actively participate within a learning community that provides and receives best practices for the enhancement of employee physical, social, and mental well-being. The benefits will be realized as this learning is integrated into organizational business strategies, systems, and processes.

CEO Health and Safety Leadership Charter

 The Charter was launched at IAPA’s Health & Safety Conference 2005 on April 4, 2005  100 CEOs and Canadian companies have signed the Charter from various sectors

Benefits  Participation in the Charter by business leaders is a visible commitment to improving health, safety and wellness within their workplaces.  It is a visible commitment to the employees in those workplaces and it will positively affect the organizational culture.  Firms will improve their health & safety performance by learning from and helping each other by sharing, mentoring, and coaching.  Enhance profile of health and safety in workplaces in Canada.

YOUNG AND NEW, INEXPERIENCED WORKERS ARE OVER 5 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET HURT THEIR FIRST MONTH ON THE JOB

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 IAPA’s First 4 Weeks is a unique, interactive health and safety orientation and training kit that trains the supervisors to help train their new and young, inexperienced workers. The two-part kit will fully prepare the supervisor with tools and strategies for training employees simply and effectively. The new worker component provides effective multimedia training with workbook support. IAPA’s First Four Weeks

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 The kit is offered in two formats – a web-based application and a CD-ROM version (for firms without internet access). The program consists of two parts: Part I is a self- directed program for supervisors. Part II is an effective and concise self-directed program for new and young workers that is job-specific. IAPA’s First Four Weeks

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 The IAPA had the privilege of participating in the development of a unique prevention toolkit for work- related mental health problems entitled “Mental Health at Work… From Defining to Solving the Problem.” This toolkit comprising a series of three booklets is the product of a partnership between Universite Laval, the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauve en sante et en securite du travail (IRSST), and IAPA. Available in English or French – if there is sufficient interest it would be translated into Spanish “Mental Health at Work…. From defining to solving the problem”

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005  Defines the concept of occupational stress and describes the extent of the problem and its consequences  Presents the main sources of occupational stress and proposes various methods that can reduce the negative impacts of stress  Describes the three possible levels of prevention:  Risk factor elimination or control  Mechanisms that can help reduce the negative impacts of stress  Treatment, the return to work and follow-up of people Three parts to the Mental Health Toolkit Toolkit

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 The IAPA corporate web site is IAPA's fastest growing, most visible and active sales and communications channel. As part of IAPA’s mission to inform and educate, IAPA permits website visitors to download and to reproduce IAPA publications for their own internal training and educational purposes. “Free Downloads” IAPA’s web-based knowledge transfer

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 “Free Downloads” IAPA’s web-based knowledge transfer  Certification  Hazard tip sheets  Safety rules  Management Systems  WHMSD  Healthy Workplaces General  Infectious Diseases  Occupational Diseases  Forms  Health and Safety Hazards  Joint Health & Safety Committee  Legislative Compliance  Occupant Emergency Plan  Additional Non-IAPA Publications  Tips for Employing Young Workers  Stress Key subject areas

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 IAPA Collaborating Centre Activities  September 24, 2004: “Integrating Occupational Health and Safety into Corporate Social Responsibility” at the OS&H in Washington D.C.  October 22, 2005: Learning From Past Tragedy” at National Youth Safety Conference in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.  May 3, 2005: Members’ General Assembly of the Section Machine Safety of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) in Rome.  July 24, 2005: “New Approaches to Establishing Health and Safety Culture in the Workplace” at The Public Forum of the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Maureen Shaw participated and presented:

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005  August 15, 2005: “Corporate Social Responsibility – A New Paradigm” at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security hosted by the Inter-American Centre for Social Security Studies in Mexico City.Agreement  July 25, 2005: An Alliance of Cooperation between IAPA and the Inter-American Centre for Social Security Studies (CIESS) was signed in Mexico City. The IAPA and the CIESS agreed to collaborate on best practices, Information Sharing, Staff Development and the Open Sharing of additional objectives and outcomes to reflect and facilitate our mutual goal of ZERO injuries, illnesses and deaths. Maureen Shaw participated and presented: IAPA Collaborating Centre Activities

M. C. Shaw CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005 “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” Gandhi