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Prevention System Realignment

Coming together to serve you better

Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA), Farm Safety Association (FSA), and Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), amalgamated on January 1, 2010 into a new health and safety organization in order to bring more innovative and cost-effective health & safety solutions to firms across Ontario.  

The emotional and financial toll of 80 to 100 workplace fatalities each year, and 1600 workplace injuries each week*, has spurred Ontario’s prevention system** to undertake a critical assessment and restructuring of its programs and services, so it can better meet the needs of Ontario businesses.  Those changes included a decision to amalgamate 12 health and safety associations into four new organizations.

What this means to member firms:

• Innovative and cost-effective solutions
• More resources and training opportunities
• Sector-specific products and services
• One website, one phone number
• Easier access to information, advice and training

*WSIB – Ontario’s Prevention System:  A New Direction Business Case – Health & Safety Association Realignment
**Ontario’s prevention system is made up of Ministry of Labour (MOL), Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) and 14 health and safety associations (HSAs).

For more information on how this may impact you and your business, please go to the Prevention System Realignment FAQ page.

Here are some additional resources that provide the context and benefits to business, and the Prevention System’s commitment to performance outcomes expected from the restructuring and other system improvements currently underway.

• The 2007-2008 Record of Activities for the Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario, which describes the collaborative evolution of the WSIB 2008-2012 Road to Zero Prevention Strategy, and sets out goals and outcomes for every working group and project designed to get us to Zero.   Click here for the print version

• A letter dated March 9, 2009, from the current CEOs of three associations to be merged into one: Farm Safety Association (FSA), Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA), and Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA). The letter demonstrates commitment to the transition and to open and timely communication with you, our clients.

• A business case released in February 2009 that supports the realignment of Ontario's 12 health and safety associations. Includes five ways the Prevention System will know it has reached its goals, and makes the case for change.

• A letter from Elizabeth Mills to clients and stakeholders that appeared in the January 2009 edition of OSSA's Safety Mosaic publications.

• Three articles on Prevention System changes and how they will improve services to customers, excerpted from OSSA's e-newsletter, The Advocate.

 

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