A new provincial advisory council designed to protect workers and improve workplace health and safety will have northern representation.
Roy Slack, president of the underground mining contracting and engineering company Cementation Canada Inc. of North Bay, will be one of five employer representatives on the new Prevention Council on Workplace Health and Safety announced by the province in August.
Slack is one of an 11-member panel that includes representatives for labour, non-union workers and employers, along with an occupational health and safety expert.
The council will provide support for Chief Prevention Officer George Gritziotis and advise Labour Minister Linda Jeffrey on the prevention of workplace injuries and illnesses; the development of a provincial occupational health and safety strategy; and proposed changes to funding and delivery of services for the prevention of workplace injuries and occupational diseases.
“This accomplished dynamic group—selected from labour, employer and academic backgrounds—will work with the chief prevention officer to help improve workplace health and safety throughout Ontario,” Jeffrey said in a news release. “Our ultimate and shared goal is to eliminate work-related injury and illness.”
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