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Provincial safety conference in Thunder Bay

Workplace Safety North (WSN) and Lakehead Regional Safety Council will be celebrating 100 years of worker health and safety in the forestry and pulp and paper industries at a special conference in Thunder Bay, Sept. 24.

Workplace Safety North (WSN) and Lakehead Regional Safety Council will be celebrating 100 years of worker health and safety in the forestry and pulp and paper industries at a special conference in Thunder Bay, Sept. 24.

Speakers include WSN president Candys Ballanger-Michaud; George Gritziotis, Chief Prevention Officer at Ontario Ministry of Labour; and Reino Pulkki, professor at Lakehead University.

“This is a very important milestone in workplace health and safety,” said Ballanger-Michaud in a press release, “especially when you look at how dangerous logging and sawmills were in the early years.”

Businesses involved in the forestry industry are invited to attend. The event will involve a day of presentations, workshops, safety awards, equipment exhibits and a trade show.

There will be presentations on risk assessment, traffic management planning, use of drones in the management of natural resources, and health and safety challenges and achievements.

“Last year, more than 20 WSN health and safety specialists provided Ontario businesses with almost 6,000 occupational health and safety training days on topics such as core health and safety principles as well as industry-specific issues,” notes Ballanger-Michaud. “From 1915 to 2015, Workplace Safety North and its legacy organizations have been dedicated to a single mission: to make workplaces safer.”