Canadian Incentives for Safe and Healthy Workplaces

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Canadian Incentives for Safe and Healthy
Workplaces
September 1 4, 2004 Beijing, P.R. China
Maureen C. Shaw, President CEO Industrial
Accident Prevention Association
(IAPA) 1-800-406-IAPA (4272) www.iapa.ca
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Introduction

• History of the enactment of Canada Bill C-45
• Bill C-45 and its implications
• A case for a managed system approach
• IAPA Integrated Management System a solution

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Our Vision is
"A World where risks are controlled because
everyone believes suffering and loss are morally,
socially and economically unacceptable."
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Mission
To improve the quality of life in workplaces and
communities we serve by being an internationally
recognized leader in providing effective
programs, products and services for the
prevention of injury and illness.
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• 87 years of health safety
• 225 committed, skilled employees
• 100 consultants/specialists
• 900 Volunteers

Alone we can do so little together we can do so
much. Helen Keller
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When coal dust and methane gas exploded in the
southwest section of the underground Westray coal
mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, the immediate
effect was a devastating fire, a blast that
ripped the roof off the mine entrance and the
death of 26 miners. But the May 9, 1992 explosion
reverberated long after that date.
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Laurence Elwyn James, 34Eugene W. Johnson,
33Stephen Paul Lilley, 40Micheal Frederick
MacKay ,38Angus Joseph MacNeil, 39Glenn David
Martin, 35Harry Alliston McCallum, 41Eric Earl
McIsaac, 38George James Munroe, 38Danny James
Poplar, 39Romeo Andrew Short, 35Peter Francis
Vickers, 38 Trevor Martian Jahn, 36
John Thomas Bates, 56Larry Arthur Bell,
25Bennie Joseph Benoit, 42Wayne Michael Conway,
38Ferris Todd Dewan, 35Adonis J. Dollimont
,36Robert Steven Doyle, 22Remi Joseph Drolet ,
38Roy Edward Feltmate, 33 Charles Robert Fraser
,29Myles Danial Gillis, 32John Philip Halloran,
33Randolph Brian House,27
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Westray Mine Public Inquiry
Final report of the inquiry entitled The Westray
Story A Predictable Path to Disaster was
released December 1997 with 74 recommendations.

• The report identified the following shortcomings
• Failure of company officials to run a safe mine
• Failure of government departments to ensure that
  mine plans were followed and regulations enforced
• Inspectors, mine development staff and government
  officials were negligent
• Politicians were at fault

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Westray Mine Public Inquiry

• The report renewed concerns about the
  accountability of corporations and executives and
  included the following recommendation
• The Government of Canada should institute a
  study of the accountability of corporate
  executives and directors for the wrongful or
  negligent acts of the corporation and should
  introduce such amendments to legislation to
  ensure that corporate executives and directors
  are held properly accountable for workplace
  safety.

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Bill C-45
The Canadian Government enacted Bill C-45 on
March 31, 2004 that amends the Criminal Code of
Canada.

• Key features of Bill C-45
• Broadens the definition of Organization to
  include a public body, corporate body, society,
  company, firm, partnership, trade union,
  municipality or an association
• Broadens the definition of representative to
  include director, partner, employee, member,
  agent or contractor
• Broadens the definition of senior officer to
  include any representative who plays an important
  role in the establishment of an organizations
  policies or management activities

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Bill C-45
The legislation broadly holds organizations,
senior officers and their representatives liable
for offences of negligence when acting within
their scope of responsibility and where there is
a proven negligent act or omission. It holds
organizations and their representatives
criminally liable for workplace health and
safety. The onus is on the senior officer to
practice due diligence and take all reasonable
steps to protect the worker and the public.
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Bill C-45

• Health Safety elements of Bill C-45 include
• Holding corporate decision makers responsible for
  health and safety
• Requiring them to take reasonable measures to
  ensure safety
• Establishing a higher standard of care for
  employees and the public
• Extending the responsibility to individuals who
  direct work
• Providing specific powers to the courts including
  probationary powers

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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

• LEADERSHIP
• INTEGRITY
• RESPECT
• RELATIONSHIPS
• ITS ABOUT RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP

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Bill C-45 Makes the Case for an Integrated
Management System Approach

• Management is about the application of
  organizational culture and resources to
  accomplish a mission
• It is supported by organizational values,
  beliefs, goals and objectives
• It flourishes where clear roles,
  responsibilities, authorities and
  accountabilities are set out
• A management system is a framework in which
  program activity is planned, implemented,
  evaluated, improved, documented and verified

In terms of health and safety, a clearly defined,
internationally recognized management system
standard does not exist
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Existing Management Systems

• British Standards Institutions (BSI)
  Occupational Safety Assessment Series 18001
• International Labour Office - ILO 2001 Guidelines
• United States - ANSI Z 10 management system for
  health and safety
• Mexico - IAPAs Integrated Management System
• Hong Kong - Safety Management Regulation
• Canada Canadian Standards Association
  developing a national standard

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Features and Benefits of a Managed System Approach

• Performance based
• Based on workplace hazards and risks
• Manages legislative compliance
• Establishment, monitoring and achievement of
  health and safety goals and objectives
• Incorporates continual improvement process
• Integration into business processes

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IAPAs Integrated Management System (IMS)for
Health, Safety and the Environment

• IMS was developed to exceed management system
  requirements of a wide variety of OHS management
  systems, standards, specifications and audit
  protocols
• It is a comprehensive continual improvement
  system that assists in managing an organizations
  health, safety and environmental needs

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IAPAs IMS SYSTEM (Integrated Management System
for Safety, Health and Environment)
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Benefits
The IMS provides for

• The identification of organizational and
  operational risks
• Managing the identified risks
• Managing change
• Building internal capacity towards self-reliance
• Improving and enhancing internal operations
• A regular cycle of client self-reflection and
  evaluation
• Flexible (different levels of program development
  in the core elements and the four disciplines)
• Serves as an implementation model

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