Investing in Worker Safety

MPP Dawn Gallagher posing a question to Minister McNaughton regarding worker and workplace safety.

Every worker in Ontario deserves to come home safely to their family at the end of their shift.

To ensure we remain a leader in occupational health and safety, this government is investing an additional $12.5 million in Ontario’s six health and safety associations to improve the health and safety services and resources available to workers and employers across the province.

The investment will support organizations like Workplace Safety North, who helped rescue 39 miners trapped underground in Sudbury in September 2021 and strengthen worker safety in critical industries from manufacturing to forestry.

Funding will be used to expand free training, tools, and clinical services available to workers and employers across the province.

The government is also updating standards for mandatory working at heights training to address one of the leading causes of workplace deaths in industries like construction.

These updates will help improve the quality of training and safety knowledge of participants when working with ladders, skylights, and damaged equipment, among other things.

Over one million workers have completed this training since it began in 2015.

Learn more: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1003057/ontario-expanding-safety-training-and-resources-to-keep-workers-safe