Saskatchewan leadership charter vows culture change for safety

With a lost-time injury rate that’s second highest in the country and a hospitalization rate from unintentional injuries that’s twice the national average, Saskatchewan’s safety record is in need of a big change.

Observers believe Saskatchewan’s agricultural roots have imbibed among its people a ‘git-r-done’ mentality that’s more focused on getting a job done rather than getting it done safely.

“It appears that we just have a greater propensity to accept injuries as accidents, as just sort of facts of life that we can’t do anything about,” says Peter Federko, CEO of the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board.
 

To read the full story in the Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine click here.