TORONTO — The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) recently announced the winners of its annual Small Business Health and Safety Leadership Awards, which recognize and celebrate small businesses that demonstrate exemplary health and safety practices and go the extra mile to keep their employees and customers safe.
The winners are:
- Gold – Sign FX, Ottawa: Sign FX, which offers full-service signage solutions including design, development, manufacturing and installation, developed a new health and safety program and has encouraged employees to keep the conversation going and approach all projects and initiatives with a health and safety lens.
- Silver – BESI (Building Envelope Systems Installations), Concord (GTA): Operating within the ICI construction sector, BESI installs glass wall systems on buildings, known as unitized curtain wall/stick curtain wall systems. BESI demonstrated its commitment to health and safety by digitizing their safety tracking system, which improved the accuracy, consistency and quality of their records.
- Bronze – Tawse Winery, Vineland: Tawse Winery, a family-owned winery and distillery refreshed its health and safety program and created new policies, ensuring employees are set up to succeed by clearly defining health and safety roles and responsibilities and creating a culture of accountability.
Launched in 2017, the WSIB’s Small Business Health and Safety Leadership Awards are open to any Ontario small business with fewer than 50 employees. About 197 businesses applied for the awards in 2023.
The winners receive a cash prize that they are encouraged to reinvest in their health and safety programs. First place wins $10,000, second place wins $6,000 and third place gets $4,000.
Businesses were judged on their performance in safety culture and leadership, implementation of safety programs or initiatives, communications, and employee involvement in the internal responsibility system.
2024 submissions will be accepted soon.
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