Collaboration in action
WSPS and its system partners began a journey in support of Ontario's Integrated Health and Safety Strategy
in 2013. Following a collaborative planning process, the Ministry of Labour (MOL) initiated a focus on five key
areas of prevention in 2016, with the intent of aligning efforts and strengthening end results. This work effectively
complements initiatives WSPS has under way in some of these areas, which will continue into 2017 and beyond.
Along with WSPS and the MOL, prevention system partners include Infrastructure Health & Safety Association
(IHSA), Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Inc. (OHCOW), Public Services Health & Safety
Association (PSHSA), Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC), Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB)
and Workplace Safety North (WSN).
We also work closely with the research community including the Centre of Research Expertise for the
Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD), Centre for Research in Occupational Disease (CREOD),
Institute for Work & Health (IWH) and Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC).
system
Partners
Small Business
The focus for small business is the
development of a provincial health and
safety representative training standard and
program. The end goal is to ensure those
who have legislated responsibility for health and
safety have the training and resources to be able to
fulfill that role.
Workplace Mental Health
The scope includes foundational work such as defining
workplace mental health from a health and safety
perspective. It also encompasses enhancing competencies
across the system, sharing and developing tools and
resources and raising awareness. In 2017, WSPS launched
the ThinkMentalHealth.ca website in collaboration with the
MOL and system partners. This user-friendly information portal will offer
free mental health resources for small to medium-sized businesses.
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