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Aggregate Productions – Asphalt Paving
Concrete Highway Construction – Major Excavations
Site Development – Underground Utilities Installation
Unit 7 – 3111 Millar Ave.
Saskatoon, SK S7K 6N3
306-653-2711
Hwy 16 S, Box 545
Russell, MB R0J 1W0
204-773-2586
1880 Winnipeg St.
Regina, SK S4P 3C2
306-949-0399
fatality rate is higher than Alberta’s and
Manitoba’s,” said Dr. Tucker, the co-author
of the study.
According to Safe Saskatchewan, the fi-nancial
impact of preventable injuries puts
a $1-billion drain on the economy through
the health care system, the WCB program,
SGI and other insurer disability costs.
To address the alarming injury and fa-tality
rates, the made-in-Saskatchewan-so-lution,
the Saskatchewan Health & Safety
Leadership Charter, strives to create a cultur-al
change. On June 9, 2016, 47 more leaders
of Saskatchewan organizations committed
to the health and safety of their employees
and communities by adding their names to
the group of business, government, union
and community leaders who signed the
Saskatchewan Health & Safety Leadership
Charter between 2010 and 2015.
From Germain’s perspective, the study of-fers
practical takeaways about what CEOs
can do to implement the actions outlined in
the Charter. The findings in the study cor-roborate
the theory that the CEO can have
a powerful influence on safety culture.
The researchers challenged the com-monly
held “leader-centric” viewpoint,
where the leader at the top is assumed to
directly influence frontline employee in-juries.
Dr. Tucker and colleagues found
that the data showed the CEOs indirect-ly
influenced workers’ experience of inju-ries
by promoting an overarching safety
climate in their organization. This safe-ty
climate is achieved through the collec-tive
learning experiences and efforts of the
CEO’s top management team, managers
and supervisors.
“We had heard anecdotal accounts
about CEOs’ influence on safety culture, but
our research is the first to gather hard data
to test if and how CEOs influence injuries
among frontline workers,” said Dr. Tucker.
SAFETY
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