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Over the years, the Ontario Prevention System—comprising the Ministry of Labour (MOL), the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and health and safety associations, including PPHSA—have built their value around a call to Ontario businesses to change the way they work. The emotional and financial toll of 80 to 100 workplace fatalities each year, and 1,600 lost-time injuries each week, has spurred the Prevention System to boldly follow its own advice. In 2010, the System is undertaking many far-reaching initiatives that will streamline the way we work so that we can:
The province's 12 health and safety associations have been consolidated to four, pushing resources to the front line and streamlining support services. The Pulp and Paper Health and Safety Association (PPHSA) has joined forces with the Mines and Aggregates Safety and Health Association (MASHA) and the Ontario Forestry Safe Workplace Association (OFSWA) to serve you better. Our collective assurance to you during this period of change is to remain committed to our high level of sector-specific service and to assisting you, our members and customers. Our structure may have changed, but the human face of it – our consultants, trainers and support staff – remain in place to provide the products and services you count on.
Meet the Chief Executive Officer
Candys Ballanger-Michaud is the inaugural CEO of Workplace Safety North, which has been formed to amalgamate MASHA (Mines and Aggregates Safety and Health Association), OFSWA (Ontario Forestry Safe Workplace Association), and PPHSA (Pulp and Paper Health and Safety Association).
Candys is working with the Board of Directors and staff of the newly-created WSN to ensure that Ontario’s employers and employees in these sectors, and other sectors in the North, have the health and safety programs and services they need. This will be accomplished by reinvesting in front-line activities through an integrated and streamlined service delivery model.
A strategic change leader with over 25 years of experience in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), Candys has a proven track record of transforming service delivery while advancing health and safety in Northern Ontario. As Director, Northern Region – Operations Division with the Ontario Ministry of Labour, she achieved reductions in workplace incidents through working with partners within an integrated health and safety framework.
Having moved to Northern Ontario in the early nineties while progressing through a variety of leadership roles within the OPS, Candys has demonstrated the skills and approaches required to improve the culture of health and safety in Northern Ontario business. She holds a Business Administration diploma from Sheridan College, and has successfully completed four levels of the Certified Management Accounting study program. She has received many awards in recognition of her dedication and leadership towards development in the North.
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Q&A on Prevention System Changes PDF
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