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WSPS Safety Group - Manufacturing Sector
(Formerly known as IAPA Safety Group)
New! Safety Group Advantage Program (SGAP) extended to 2012
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) recently approved that the 2012 Safety Groups program be extended and available to Safety Group Advantage Program (SGAP) members for one more year. With this extension, all Safety Group members with five or more years of Safety Group experience can now continue in the program and be eligible for financial rebates.
For more information on SGAP participation or Safety Group membership, please contact safetygroups@wsps.ca
Information Session Webinar
Providing information on Workplace Safety & Prevention Services Safety Groups Program for the Manufacturing Sector.
Duration: 12.5 minutes |
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 Good things happen when we join together for the common purpose of reducing injuries and illnesses. That's the concept behind the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s Safety Group Program. Firms join together to plan health and safety prevention measures and incorporate them into their daily business.
The results: a potential reduction in lost time injury frequencies and severity rates.
The reward: a potential for premium rebates of up to 6% for all members of the Safety Group.
If you are a Schedule 1 employer with a firm size of 20 or more employees and in good standing with the WSIB, you’re eligible to join WSPS’s sponsored Safety Group.
Formerly the IAPA Safety Group, the WSPS Safety Group continues the long record of IAPA Safety Group success. WSPS, formed in 2010 through the amalgamation of Farm Safety Association (FSA), Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) and Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), is one of four Health & Safety Ontario partners.
WSPS provides health and safety products, training and consulting to Ontario’s agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors, and is a trusted advisor to businesses seeking to boost productivity and profitability by reaching zero work-related injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
The Group's Success Becomes
Your Success
The concept is simple. At the start of the year firms come together to form a regional chapter with in the provincial Safety Group. From a list of safety elements provided by the WSIB, each Safety Group member selects five elements to initiate or improve upon in their workplace. The Safety Group members then work together to implement their selected safety elements, attending at least three out of five facilitated one-day meetings throughout the year.
Achievement History
Along with improved safety records, past Safety Group members have received financial benefits in the form of rebates from the WSIB.
The WSPS Safety Group - Manufacturing has received:
- 2010
A lost time injury rate reduction of 17.12% and a severity rate reduction of 21.55% with a WSIB rebate of $7,123,951.
- 2009
A lost time injury rate reduction of 10.53% and a severity rate reduction of 8.9% with a WSIB rebate of $6,835,188 divided among 648 firms.
- 2008
A lost time injury rate reduction of 8.67% and a severity rate reduction of 3.36% with a WSIB rebate of $5,625,956 divided among 641 firms.
- 2007
A lost time injury rate reduction of 6.2% and a severity rate reduction of 14.9%, with a WSIB rebate of $7,073,478 divided among 633 firms.
- 2006
A lost time injury rate reduction of 32.67% and a severity rate reduction of 28.02%, with a WSIB rebate of $3,076,623.
- 2005
A lost time injury rate reduction of 26.67% and a severity rate reduction of 28.89%, with a WSIB rebate of $2,124,845.
- 2004
A lost time injury rate reduction of 22.22% and a severity rate reduction of 21.07%, with a WSIB rebate of $895,621.
Learn more about member benefits and download forms.
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