The Saskatoon and Region Home Builders' Association (SRHBA), the Saskatoon Land Development Branch, WorkSafe Saskatchewan, and the Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association (SCSA) are reminding home builders and renovators to cover unguarded openings on worksites and to wear proper personal protective equipment.   Read full media release and watch the CTV News story

If you are a contractor who wants to compete for high-risk work with SaskPower (such as construction), you will want to join ISNetworld and ensure you are Certificate of Recognition (COR®) certified. In the spring of 2017, SaskPower will use an external company, ISNetworld (ISN) to help pre-qualify all contractors who compete on high-risk work, including construction or maintenance projects. Around 70 per cent of the contractors used by SaskPower already subscribe to ISN.  Read More

Two of the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission's (SATCC) main roles are training apprentices and certifying tradespeople. While we encourage employers to hire and train apprentices, we also remind employers that in non-compulsory trades, they can certify their existing tradespeople.  Under both certification avenues though, workplace safety is key. Read More

On Friday May 19, 2017, Health Canada announced that they are delaying two of the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) 2015 transition timelines. The two new deadline dates affect suppliers who are manufacturers and importers, and suppliers who are distributors and those who import for their own use.

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The Canadian Federation of Construction Safety Associations (CFCSA) and all provincial and territorial construction safety associations within the CFCSA actively work to promote awareness of construction health and safety, improve information sharing, and collaboratively produce workplace health and safety training standards and information resources.   Read the latest CFCSA: Connected (Summer 2017) newsletter

Steps for Life walks were held in both Regina and Saskatoon on May 7th to kick off North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) week. Between the two cities just under 200 walkers participated, raising almost $30,000.00

Steps for Life is a fun 5km fundraising walk to help support families affected by workplace tragedy. Created in 2004, it raises funds to support  Threads of Life, a national Canadian registered charity dedicated to supporting families along their journey of healing who have suffered from a workplace fatality, life-altering workplace injury or occupational disease.  Read More