Ms. Maureen Shaw, President & CEOIndustrial Accident Prevention Association
(IAPA)1-800-406-IAPA (4727) www.iapa.ca
Hong Kong Convention CentreHong Kong Convention Centre
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Wednesday, March 19, 2003
"A World where risks are controlled because everyone believes suffering and loss are morally, socially and economically unacceptable."
Care and respect for people
Trust and integrity
Continuous Improvement and Innovation
Openness to ideas
Leading by example
Recognition
Life/work balance
Consulting Services (High Impact Solutions, Integrated Management System and Occupational Health)
Technical Services (Ergonomists, Engineers, Occupational Hygienists)
Training/Education Services (Public, In-house, Internet, CD-Rom)
Products (more than 100 products)
Partnerships and alliances locally, nationally and internationally (e.g.: Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Ontario Furniture, Canadian Foundry Assoc., Hong Kong Council, ILO, ISSA, WHO, PAHO, DGSST-Mexico)
Community-based programs through a network of 900 industry volunteers
Formed 85 years ago by industrial leaders with the Canadian Manufacturers Association, we have evolved as a non-governmental not-for-profit corporation to 225 professional staff with the following integrated menu of offerings:
Ceramics & Stone Chemical Industries Food Products Grain, Feed & Fertilizer High Tech Industrial Equipment Leather, Rubber & Tanners Metal Trades Office & Related Services Printing Trades Textiles and Allied Trades Woodworkers’
We have 47,000 member firms and 1,550,000 employees representing diverse industry sectors:
This presentation will take a high This presentation will take a high level view at incentives used in level view at incentives used in Canada through:Canada through:
Community-based Coalitions Industry Partnerships and
Collectives Financial and Non-Financial
Incentives Social and Moral Incentives
The general objective of an accreditation program would be to promote the adoption of good OHS policies, programs and practices in workplaces
The goal is to encourage employers to adopt an Integrated Management System driven by a comprehensive continual improvement process, designed to assist them in managing and integrating their organization’s safety, health and environmental needs with overall business requirements in a manner which is sustainable
Accreditation has the potential to strengthen workplace commitment to high standards of OHS practice through economic, social and possibly legal motivators.
Giving accredited firms a competitive edge in obtaining contracts for products and services.
Possible economic incentive would be to tie accreditation to lower insurance premiums
Accredited can be tied to positive public recognition of accredited companies, leading to improved public relations and possibly improved market position.
Accredited firms would expect to receive less enforcement attention from government agencies
Accreditation standards would promote understanding and sharing of the qualities and practices known to be associated with successful health and safety outcomes
Accreditation could be a source of pride and recognition for accredited firms
By identifying firms with good OHS practice, accreditation would allow regulatory and enforcement efforts to be concentrated on poorer firms.
Accreditation would entail a market advantage to those that have nigh quality OHS programs and practices.
For buyer firms, accreditation will provide a consistent means for ensuring that suppliers have achieved a standard level of OHS practice.
High program delivery costs are a possibility
If standards, audit tools or program delivery are not well-designed an administered, various unacceptable outcomes could ensue, such as:
Bad public relations for accrediting organizations
Perception that the accreditation program is unfair
Accreditation of unworthy firms
Failure to accredit worthy firms
Requirements that are too onerous, especially for small business.
Skilled experts and practitioners in workplace injury and illness prevention
Framework of legislation and standards (including International Standards)
Belief in the need to generate greater social awareness of the magnitude of the unacceptable injury problem
Economic & political benefits of prevention Bringing together leaders in communities with
knowledge and expertise in business, government, planning, public health and social sciences, education, epidemiology, crime prevention, fire prevention, transportation safety, childhood safety, seniors’ safety and more!
Canada was the first country to use the workplace as the catalyst for developing coalitions and partnerships for prevention of injuries in communities.
“Helping make Canada the safest country in the world to live, learn, work and play.”
The Safe Communities Foundation has a practical plan for workplace and community-wide safety with the following outcomes:
protecting lives
reducing the cost of losses
creating a healthy climate for investment
Partnership with the Ontario Workplace Partnership with the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), the 24 Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), the 24 Safe Communities and the Safety Safe Communities and the Safety Associations, based in OntarioAssociations, based in Ontario
Provides group financial incentive to small business who register and fulfill criteria
Provides Risk Evaluation to workplaces to improve health and safety
Provides Awareness Training to employers and workers
Provides assistance and coaching in developing actions plans for implementation
Sector Specific training to identified group needs
WSIB and Safety Associations partnering with the business community
Each safety group has a sponsor from a trade association or a health and safety association
Sponsor promotes group interaction through meetings, workshops and guidance on action-plan development and tracking progress
A collective average improvement determines the rebate that the group will equally share
Each group should strive for a 20% reduction during each year of the program
Developed a Foundry health and safety guide Developed sector-specific health and safety
training Formed a Safety Group
Loss time injury rate dropped by 50% Insurance assessment rate dropped 9%
in 2002, a savings of $875,000 Safety Group realized rebates of
$264,000
Over the last three years IAPA worked with Over the last three years IAPA worked with the Canadian Foundry Association and the Canadian Foundry Association and accomplished the following:accomplished the following:
Results!Results!
ALBERTA
Alberta’s Workers’ Compensation Board offers a voluntary “Partners in Injury Reduction” program that provides discount of up to 20% of premiums for implementing health and safety programs and mitigating claim costs. To qualify, each employer must achieve the Certificate of Recognition Audit Standard. Four communities that participated as a group in PIR reduced their workplace injuries by as much as 40%
MANITOBAManitoba is moving to a system where by 2002, the public sector and private purchasers of construction services would require bidders on contracts exceeding $250,000 Canadian to have appropriate Industry Association “Certification of Recognition” accreditation or equivalent.
NEW BRUNSWICKNew Brunswick offers 4 levels of financial incentives 2%, 5% and 10% of premium. Each level requires an increase in audit score as well as consideration of the firm’s decrease in total cost of new injuries and of claims and the disability management program.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
BC Certificate of Recognition (COR)BC Certificate of Recognition (COR)
Voluntary program ~ 5% incentive
Industry driven~ industry funded
Requires employers to go beyond
BC Regulatory compliance
Training requirements
Audit component
Administered by industry safety association~ Certifying Association
IAPA's Health and Safety AwardsStart the Journey Towards Health & Safety Excellence
IAPA’s Health and Safety Awards recognize progressive achievement in health and safety with three distinct honours: Achievement Award, Safety Award and our prestigious President’s Award. These awards have been developed with one goal in mind: to provide guidance and recognition to IAPA member firms in their quest towards occupational health and safety excellence.
IAPA’s Health and Safety Awards make significant milestones in their journey towards a systematic, dedicated approach to health and safety management. By meeting the requirements of these awards, they will not only maintain a proactive approach to achieving health and safety excellence, they will also ensure their health and safety initiatives address industry standards and the needs of their employees.
How IAPA’S Member Firms Benefit
Focus their health and safety improvement efforts on tangible goals
Use the program criteria to guide the development of their overall health and safety plan
Demonstrate their commitment to staff, their customers and their community
Celebrate their achievement by displaying their award in a place of prominence
Formally acknowledge employees for their efforts in helping earn the award
Become eligible for special pricing on many IAPA products
Receive recognition and publicity in IAPA publications, on IAPA’s web site and at IAPA events.
IAPA member firms derive numerous other important advantages from the program as well:
Corporate Social Responsibility is not the latest bullet or business fad, it not a philanthropic idea. It is an International Imperative for both business and the countries we are operating in.
• LEADERSHIP• INTEGRITY• RESPECT• RELATIONSHIPS
IT’S ABOUT RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
Corporate Social Responsibility in a globalized industrial world is about making the business investment and the community promise sustainable for the company and for the communities we operate in, its people and environment. It demands:
Moral and social incentives are about not accepting poor performers as part of our value system
An economic incentive is a motivator to improve from a business and competitive perspective -the market will only recognize good performers
Legal incentives force poor performers to improve
Communities and the public will recognize and demand corporate social responsibility in health and safety
IAPA believes that in order to move the IAPA believes that in order to move the prevention yardstick in health and safety, we prevention yardstick in health and safety, we need to integrate moral, social, economic and need to integrate moral, social, economic and legal incentives. Collectively they are legal incentives. Collectively they are motivators for improvement:motivators for improvement:
The ultimate goal is to utilize a judicious mix of The ultimate goal is to utilize a judicious mix of strategies leading to sustainable cultural changestrategies leading to sustainable cultural change
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is
progress, and working together is success.”
- Henry Ford
“A World where risks are controlled because everyone believes suffering and loss are morally, socially and economically unacceptable.”
Jennifer Quintal – Age 9
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