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Prevention System Realigning to Serve Clients Better

This page will be updated regularly with any new developments.

Coming together to serve you better

Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA), Farm Safety Association (FSA), and Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), amalgamated on January 1, 2010 into a new health and safety organization in order to bring more innovative and cost-effective health & safety solutions to firms across Ontario.
The emotional and financial toll of 80 to 100 workplace fatalities each year, and 1600 workplace injuries each week*, has spurred Ontario’s prevention system** to undertake a critical assessment and restructuring of its programs and services, so it can better meet the needs of Ontario businesses. Those changes included a decision to amalgamate 12 health and safety associations into four new organizations.

What this means to member firms:

• Innovative and cost-effective solutions
• More resources and training opportunities
• Sector-specific products and services
• One website, one phone number
• Easier access to information, advice and training

* WSIB – Ontario’s Prevention System: A New Direction Business Case – Health & Safety Association Realignment

** Ontario’s prevention system is made up of Ministry of Labour (MOL), Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) and 14 health and safety associations (HSAs).

For more information on how this may impact you and your business, please go to the Prevention System Realignment FAQ page.

September, 2009: Notice of FSA Special Members Meeting

The Special Members Meeting (“Meeting”) of the members of Farm Safety Association (FSA) will be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at:

The Holiday Inn Guelph,
601 Scottsdale Drive,
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 3E7

The Meeting will be held for the purpose of considering and taking action with respect to the following:

To consider, and if thought desirable, to adopt an Amalgamation Agreement (“AA”) between FSA and others to take effect as of January 1, 2010, for the amalgamation of FSA and the other named corporations to continue under the name Safe Workplace Promotion Services Ontario. Note: The AA and its accompanying documents can be obtained by calling Michele Brown of FSA at 1.800.361.8855 or 519.823.5600 ext. 23 and ask for a hard copy to be mailed to you.

To exercise your company’s right to vote, please complete the proxy form below and mail or fax to FSA, or bring it to the meeting as per the instructions on the form. If you will be attending in person, please RSVP to mbrown@farmsafety.ca by September, 28.

• Special Meeting Announcement.
• Downloadable copy of the Amalgamation Agreement (2,116 KB PDF)
• Proxy Form (163 KB PDF)
• Amalgamation Backgrounder

June 9, 2009 - Board of Directors Call for Applications

The Board of Directors is accountable for the leadership, oversight, policy direction, monitoring, and stewardship of SWPSO. Deadline – October 30, 2009. Click here for more details

June 9, 2009 - Advisory Council Call for Applications

Provide leadership in the health and safety field within the business community and influence the operational direction of SWPSO. Deadline – January 15, 2010. Click here for more details

June 9, 2009 - Click here to download the Candidacy Acknowledgement Form

June 9, 2009 - Board Member and Advisory Council Recruitment.

Click here for more details

June 8, 2009 - Elizabeth Mills becomes the inaugural CEO

We are pleased to announce that, effective June 15, Elizabeth Mills will become the inaugural CEO of the newly-created Safe Workplace Promotion Services Ontario. Click here for more details.

March 9, 2009

• A letter dated March 9, 2009, from the current CEOs of three associations to be merged into one: Farm Safety Association (FSA), Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA), and Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA). The letter demonstrates commitment to the transition and to open and timely communication with you, our clients.
  
  Click to read letter

• A business case released in February 2009 that supports the realignment of Ontario's 12 health and safety associations. Includes five ways the Prevention System will know it has reached its goals, and makes the case for change.

  Click to read business case

• The 2007-2008 Record of Activities for the Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario, which describes the collaborative evolution of the WSIB 2008-2012 Road to Zero Prevention Strategy, and sets out goals and outcomes for every working group and project designed to get us to Zero.

Click here for the read version

Click here for the print version