HomeMy WebLinkAboutADMIN-6-97THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
REPORT
Meeting: General Purpose and Administration
Date: March 3 1997
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Subject:
Safe Community Foundation
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Recommendations:
It is respectfully recommended that Report Admin. 6 - 97 be
received for information.
Background and Comment:
At its meeting of January 13 1997, Council received correspondence
from MPP John O'Toole dated December 12 1996 and referred the
matter to the Chief Administrative Officer.
On February 6, 1997 staff attended an information meeting chaired
by Mr. O'Toole at which time Carol Eamer, Managing Director of the
Safe Community Foundation made a presentation to those in
attendance. The Foundation is a pilot project funded by five major
Banks as well as Dupont Canada and Noranda Inc.
The Foundation is mandated to set up ten safe communities in
Ontario and six in Alberta. So far there is one established in
Brockville, Ontario, which was set up as a pilot in the spring of
1996. Brockville is on the Internet and boast they are a "Safe
Community". It was also noted Peterborough and Kitchener/Waterloo
are presently developing plans which will be submitted for
consideration.
The idea of the project is for a community to come up with a
Business Plan which is submitted to the Foundation. The plan is
developed by the "committee" and states what will be done to make
the community safe. The committee is focused towards small
businesses in the community and will be made up of representatives
of the Chamber of Commerce, several small businesses, someone from
larger business and Municipal representatives. The Municipal
representatives would possibly consist of a Councillor, someone
from Marketing and Tourism and from health and safety.
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The idea is to collect statistics which will identify an area which
.may be of concern. This could be, for example, an unusual number of
snowmobile accidents. The committee may identify .some safety..
course in their plan to reduce the number of accidents. The
decision of the area to address is up to the committee and the plan."
must be aimed at reducing the number of accidents'and injuries.
One positive aspect of becoming a Safe Community is that if'
Clarington is designated as a safe community the Workers'
Compensation Board will help. the committee to forecast. WCB costs
for the community. They will Look at the past couple of years and
forecast the cost for the community for the next couple of years.
If, through the. safety plans put in place, the Municipality reduces
the forecasted WCB payments, WCB will credit the community up to
75$ of the savings.
There will be no real costs to the Municipality, only staff
participation. If the committee requires financial
contributions, they are eligible for up to $25,000 from .the
Foundation.
Recommendations:
As we understand that the MPP for Durham, Mr. John O'Toole, will be
holding another meeting to further investigate the "Safe Community"
proposal, staff will attend same and report further to Council.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. Stockwell,.
Chief Administrative Officer
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Ministry of Labour
April 23, 1996
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LABOUR MINISTRY JOINS NEW INITIATIVE TO
MAKE ONTARIO COMMUNITIES HEALTHY AND SAFE
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TORONTO -- Labour Minister Elizabeth Witmer announced today that the
Ministry of Labour has joined in a unique partnership with the Safe Communities
Foundation and the private sector to help small businesses and communities
prevent and reduce injuries.
"The Foundation offers an innovative community-based program to help make
Ontario the safest place to live, work and play in the world," the Minister said
at the official launch of the organization in Toronto. "It supports our goal of
developing partnerships to create safe and healthy workplaces."
She congratulated Paul Kells for his tireless efforts in bringing the Foundation to
Ontario, adding that he has become "an inspiration to us ail as we endeavour to
prevent injury and illness in the workplace."
Mrs. Witmer said the government will provide support for the activities and
approaches offered by the Foundation. The Workers' Compensation Board will
become an important partner in the Safe Communities initiatives. It will work
with the Foundation, the Ministry and others to develop acommunity-based
program aimed at small employers in the pilot communities.
She also congratulated the Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto Dominion Bank and Royal Bank of Canada
for their role as founding sponsors of the Foundation and Dupont Canada Inc.
and Noranda Inc. for becoming the first corporate sponsors.
Ontario's first Safe Communities- pilot project was launched in Brockville earlier
today. Brockville is the first community of what is hoped will be at least five
Safe Communities by this time next year.
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Contacts: Bob McClelland Rod Phillips
Media Relations Minister's Office
(416) 326-7405 (4161 326-7704
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WHAT WE DO
The goal of the Safe Communities Foundation is to help make Canada the safest place to
live, work and play in the world. The Foundation takes acommunity-based approach to
achieving this goal.
Safe Communities brings occupational health and safety expertise to small businesses
through their local communities while also providing a focal point and impetus for a
broad range of other safety initiatives.
Safe Communities works with local business and community leaders to establish a
steering committee in their community. This group reseazches injury patterns in their
business community and identifies health and safety training needs. These vary from
community to community. Typically, they involve health and safety program design,
Post-injury Loss Reduction, Auditor training, etc. A training schedule is developed
which meets the needs of the participants. Small businesses then "register" for a token
fee and local partners and resources aze identified and sought out.
Local steering committees may wish to broaden the scope of their project to include
community injury prevention initiatives involving first aid, substance abuse, smoke
detectors, etc. The Safe Communities Foundation can provide grants for eligible projects
of components of projects., such as subsidizing some training costs. The progress and
results of projects aze monitored and evaluated to generate system-wide improvements.
Specifically, the Safe Communities Foundation:
• Helps individual communities establish steering committees to develop and
implement local private/public sector programs designed to improve the long-term
health and safety of community members;
l uadnngepmieon: • Co-ordinates the efforts of multiple communities and health and safety delivery
°'"" °` ~"N' "`" organizations to achieve province-wide effectiveness and efficiency within the
BAVH OF Q)A1A1ERCC Safe Common{t1e.S context,
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s'"""'~^^ • Provides "seed" funding to communities for the development of local materials to
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help launch the community program and offset some training costs;
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• Raises private sector funds to provide seed funding to support the injury
prevention activities of local steering committees.
Safe Communities takes a unique approach in that it recognizes and focuses on the needs of
small business to design appropriate health and safety systems. Rather than teach small business
operators to behave like "Big Business," Safe Communities builds on the very strengths of small
business -- their sense of community and their bottom line.
Safe Communities launched its first pilot community project in Brockville, Ontario during the
Spring of 1996, with more pilots to be launched in Ontario and Alberta before Spring, 1997.
Communities now being considered for pilot projects include Waterloo, North Bay and
Peterborough, Ontario. Simultaneously, it will liaise with and support existing safe community
efforts in Alberta and join with the worldwide safe community network established under the
auspices of the World Health Organization. In subsequent years. The Safe Communities
Foundation will expand to support community projects across Canada.
Coupled with this community activity, the Foundation will be undergoing an intense phase of
organizational development: recruiting a Board of Directors from among our corporate partners
to provide practical, hands-on direction; recruiting a small staff of dedicated professionals;
developing community "how to" guides and a video; establishing funding criteria; marketing the
Safe Communities concept; seeking additional corporate partners; and establishing effective
networks with the public sector.
It will be a hectic year, but productive. The Foundation will organize a conference to mark the
end of Year One. Informal case histories of projects will be discussed, achievements will be
recognized, and plans for Year Two will be finalized.
Year Two will again focus on registering and developing new community initiatives and
nurturing those already underway. By the end of Year Two, with more than a dozen
communities registered and organizational development largely completed, the Safe
Communities Foundation will be on firm footing.
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Safe Communities Foundation
Board of Directors
Geoff Cannon
Executive Director
Institute for Small Business
Bank of Montreal
Blair McRobie
VP, Corporate Sponsorships
Royal Bank
Sandy Shand
Sr. Consultant, Human Resources
CIBC
Robert Jupp
Mngr., Benefits and Compensation
Toronto Dominion
Anne Teh
Sr. Mngr., Corporate Sponsorships
Bank of Montreal
Michele Darling
Executive VP, Human Resources
CIBC
Gary Dobbie
VP, Benefits and Compensation
Toronto Dominion
Sylvia Chrominska
Sr. VP, Human Resources
Scotiabank
Alan Booth Dave Henderson
Director, Human Resources VP, Human Resources and Communication
Scotiabank DuPont Canada
Jim Taylor Tim Millard
Mngr., Corporate Safety & Environmental Affairs Deputy Minister
DuPont Canada Ministry of Labour
Paavo Kivisto
Asst. Deputy Minister
`°'°'d"3'~°'~°'r~ Ministry of Labour
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Robin Ford
Deputy Minister
Alberta Labour
Michael Abromeit
District Manager
IAPA
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