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IAPA Collaborating Centre
Report – 2005
CIS Meeting
September 18, 2005
Maureen C. Shaw, President & CEO
IAPA (Industrial Accident Prevention Association)
1-800-406-IAPA (4272)
www.iapa.ca
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
New Initiatives at IAPA
 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
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
IAPA’s Health Strategic Plan
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.
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 2005
IAPA’s Health Strategy Goals
1. 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.
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
Small Business Centre
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.
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
Small Business Centre
A new IAPA website feature
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
Current content of IAPA’s
Online Small Business Centre
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Introduction
How Health & Safety Works in Ontario
Getting Started
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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
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Visit IAPA’s Small Business Centre at www.iapa.ca
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Benefits
 Nexus for health & safety and applied research
 Provide innovative distance and technologybased 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
IAPA’s First Four Weeks
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.
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
IAPA’s First Four Weeks
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 selfdirected program for supervisors. Part II is an
effective and concise self-directed program for new
and young workers that is job-specific.
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CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
“Mental Health at Work….
From defining to solving the problem”
The IAPA had the privilege of participating in the
development of a unique prevention toolkit for workrelated 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
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CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
Three parts to the Mental Health
Toolkit
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Defines the concept of occupational stress and
describes the extent of the problem and its
consequences
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Presents the main sources of occupational stress and
proposes various methods that can reduce the
negative impacts of stress
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Describes the three possible levels of prevention:
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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
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“Free Downloads”
IAPA’s web-based knowledge transfer
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.
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CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
“Free Downloads”
IAPA’s web-based knowledge transfer
Key subject areas
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Certification
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Forms
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Hazard tip sheets
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Health and Safety Hazards
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Safety rules
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Management Systems
Joint Health & Safety
Committee
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WHMSD
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Legislative Compliance
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Healthy Workplaces
General
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Occupant Emergency Plan
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Additional Non-IAPA
Publications
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Tips for Employing Young
Workers
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Stress
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Infectious Diseases
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Occupational Diseases
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CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
IAPA Collaborating Centre Activities
Maureen Shaw participated and presented:
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September 24, 2004: “Integrating Occupational Health and
Safety into Corporate Social Responsibility” at the OS&H in
Washington D.C.
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October 22, 2005: Learning From Past Tragedy” at National
Youth Safety Conference in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
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May 3, 2005: Members’ General Assembly of the Section
Machine Safety of the International Social Security Association
(ISSA) in Rome.
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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.
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
IAPA Collaborating Centre Activities
Maureen Shaw participated and presented:
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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
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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.
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CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005
“We must be the change we wish to see
in the world.”
Gandhi
M. C. Shaw
CIS Meeting Orlando, Fl 2005