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Alberta Municipalities Awards

Date: Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Location: Alberta

Don’t miss the opportunity to nominate a municipal leader in your community for a 2022 Alberta Municipalities Award!

Alberta Municipalities Awards recognizes leaders in municipalities across Alberta. These awards will acknowledge and congratulate leaders who have demonstrated innovation and distinction in their respective municipalities and communities.

Nominations for this year’s awards must be submitted by June 30. That may seem like plenty of time, but it is just around the corner!

Eligible nominees must be from a current or past regular member municipality. For more information on all of the awards, and to download the nomination forms, visit the ABmunis awards web page.

Vitrual Summit: Strategies for 2022: staying safe at home or in the office

Date: Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Location: Online

Strategies for 2022: staying safe at home or in the office

An employer’s duty to ensure a safe, healthy working environment doesn’t end on the other side of the office door.

For hybrid and remote workers, the duty of care extends to private homes and other environments, which raises new concerns for safety professionals.

Join Safety Leaders Summit Canada this June 21st for a powerful virtual summit that will explore the most pressing topics in safety today and help you address today’s unique safety issues. In Addressing risks within remote and hybrid working models a panel of experts will discuss:

  • addressing the disjunct between OHS laws and WFH practice
  • providing an ergonomic environment for employees in a hybrid set up
  • offering the right assistance to remote employees for injury, sickness, or mental stress
  • comparing hybrid practices and how to engage workers in a private setting
  • overcoming barriers to employee support

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Ergonomics Coaching Webinar: Reducing MSIs in the trades

Date: Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Time: 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Location: Zoom

Reducing MSIs in the trades

This session begins with a review of injury claims in Alberta municipal workers with a focus on the Trades. We will discuss methods for identifying risk factors and strategies to reduce musculoskeletal risk, including job coaching. This talk will focus on six general ergonomics principles. These principles are a starting point toward implementing engineering controls, behavioural changes, and updates to training. Attendees are then encouraged to meet with their teams and use these principles as a starting point to target musculoskeletal injury risk reduction.     

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ACSC Meeting

Date: Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Location: Virtual

Further details TBA

For more information, contact Shannon Thomas ([email protected])

Audit Deadline for Fall External Audits

Date: Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Location: Virtual

Remember to contact Shannon Thomas ([email protected]) by June 1st to arrange for a fall external COR Certification peer audit.

Include the following details: month for audit to be conducted, scope (number of employees and permanent worksites), and names of certified auditors available to conduct peer audits at another municipality.

AMHSA COR-holders also have the option to hire an AMHSA-certified consultant auditor. 

Upcoming News & Events

◙ National Day of Mourning

Date: April 28, 2024
Location: Canada

The National Day of Mourning is not only a day to remember and honour those lives lost or injured due to a workplace tragedy, but also a day to collectively renew our commitment to improve health and safety in the workplace and prevent further injuries, illnesses and deaths.

For more information, visit https://www.ccohs.ca/events/mourning/ 

◙ Aquatic Health and Safety Awareness: Types of Fall Protection, Including Guardrails

Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 11:00-12:00
Location: Online

The Aquatics Health and Safety Awareness campaign is designed to raise awareness of occupational health and safety concerns for those working in and around aquatic facilities, and to provide free and accessible resources to workers (including vulnerable/new/young workers), supervisors, pool facility operators, and organizations. The webinars are no cost, open to all attendees, and will be recorded and made available following the event.

This 45-minute webinar is presented by a fall protection engineering expert that will review when a fall protection plan and fall protection training are required. The subject matter expert will also discuss the hierarchy of controls specific for fall protection, and the types of systems, such as guardrails, travel restraint, fall arrest, and control zones. This general understanding is fundamental before creating a fall protection plan and implementing its systems.  Following the webinar, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of our subject matter expert.

  • Review when fall protection is required.
  • Outline the hierarchy of controls specific for slips, trips, and falls.
  • Identify the types of systems involved in the fall protection plan, such as: guardrails, travel restraint, fall arrest, and control zones.
  • Review Alberta OHS legislation - specifically, water danger [AB OHS Code 157], Fall Protection Plan [AB OHS Code140(1)], Instruction of workers [AB OHS Code141(1) and 141(3)], and fall protection hierarchy [AB OHS Code139(3) to 13(8)].

Visit our Aquatic Health and Safety Awareness Website for additional resources, including safety talks and information posters.

Presented by AMHSA & High Engineering

Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 (MST)

REGISTER NOW

When registering, you’ll have the option to select individual webinars or register for all three. To register multiple attendees at once, we have a bulk registration spreadsheet that can be filled out and returned to [email protected].

◙ Alberta Health & Safety Conference

Date: May 01, 2024 - May 02, 2024
Location: Feltham Centre, NAIT, Edmonton, AB

The Health & Safety Conference Society of Alberta (HSCSA) is excited to announce the dates of their upcoming 2024 conference: Wednesday, May 1 & Thursday, May 2, 2024 at the Feltham Centre (CAT) at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta.

Watch https://hsconference.ca/ for details.

◙ NAOSH Week

Date: May 06, 2024 - May 11, 2024
Location: Canada

Find tools to help you plan and promote your Safety and Health Week events. Combine with organization-wide involvement, support and enthusiasm for your keys to success. 

Visit https://www.safetyandhealthweek.ca/english/ for more