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OVERVIEW OF PARTICIPANTS
CATEGORY DESCRIPTION 2019 2020
Leading Health and safety is treated as a strategic
priority. Information is reported publicly,
and board decisions take into account the
impact on health and safety.
12% 17%
Proactive Active board discussion and support
aimed at enhancing management of
health and safety
28% 38%
Managing Focused on management of day-to-day
health and safety.
33% 27%
Reactive Focused on addressing health and safety
issues as they arise. Focus remains on
incident rates.
22% 15%
Start of Journey Starting to understand what health and
safety involves; focused on incident
management.
4% 2%
Totals may not equal 100 as figures are rounded off.
TOTAL OF COMPLETED SURVEY RESPONDENTS = 805
The survey was completed by 805 respondents, just over double the number who responded in
2019. They represented a cross-section of industries and organizations of all sizes from across
Canada. Of them, 65% were managers and 14% classified themselves as senior leaders. In all, 77%
indicated that they were authorized to approve or were part of the health and safety decision-
making process in their organizations.
Respondents fell into five categories based on the level of development of health and safety in
their workplaces. This year, we saw an increase in those taking a more proactive approach to
health and safety and a drop in the less developed categories.
