Improve health and safety, and increase organizational efficiency and performance.
Employers, unions, compensation boards, and businesses have invested a great deal of time and money in an effort to reach the goal of zero accidents and injuries. And yet, this goal seems elusive.
In its June 2009 update of Road to Zero, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) reiterated today’s workplace safety challenges and its vision, “The elimination of all workplace fatalities, injuries, and illnesses.”
This event provides a forum for senior occupational health and safety leaders and experts to discuss these ambitious goals, and the reality of health and safety in today’s workplace, including how to:
ensure your health and safety systems investment has a positive impact on the bottom line
deal with an audit, create a health and safety committee, and manage consultants, the audit process, and implement recommendations
rework your processes and documentation to reduce the costs and increase the benefits of necessary changes
Are you bogged down in paperwork and inspections?
If so, you know how much this costs your organization in productivity and motivation. While compliance itself can seem like a waste of time and money, innovative organizations have discovered how to manage their investment and ensure their health and safety efforts contribute to performance and competitiveness.
Hear from organizations who have gone beyond the frustration of compliance and excess paperwork to ensure their programs made an impact. Learn from their experience how to improve health and safety performance with the support of workers, unions, supervisors, and senior leadership.

This is a really useful post. There are thousands and thousands of working days lost every year through accidents at work. It is obviously down to the employer to make sure that the work place is a safe environment for workers but it is also up to employers to make sure that staff are aware of potential risks to their safety and to their overall health and to make sure that though awareness, all precautions are taken to safeguard workers.