Meet CCSA Member of the Month:
Westwinds Communities
Westwinds Communities is a non-profit supportive living and affordable housing operator located south of Calgary in the beautiful Foothills Region. Westwinds has 95 employees and has maintained a Health and Safety Certificate of Recognition for over 25 years.
Val Scott, Health and Safety Coordinator at Westwinds, wrote, “We work hard to instill health and safety into our workplace, and it’s an integral part of our culture.”
Westwinds Communities Health and Safety “walk the talk” for 2023 includes:
- CCSA approval for an Action Plan audit for 2023 with our 90% mark in the 2022 COR audit results.
- Employee Mental Health Awareness weeks: January, May & October includes a collection of videos, activities, exercises, brochures, apps & draw prizes.
- North American Health and Safety Week May 1 – 8, 2023. A weeklong friendly competition between our communities featuring various games, exercises and activities for individuals and groups promoting health, safety and wellness.
- Key employees enrolled in ‘Train the Trainer’ workshops to enhance our educational platform for all employees.
- New hire orientation process includes online health and safety training plus a half day in person session for hands on health and safety training before site work begins.
- Bi-monthly interactive refresher training to cover the ten health and safety core elements and WHMIS over the year. We also draw for gift cards to encourage employees to report near misses and properly document incidents.
- TEAMS Week coming up in November – an engaging week promoting health, safety and wellness with individual self-paced activities.
CCSA is grateful for the incredible commitment of Westwinds Communities to the health and safety of their workers!
