Managing safety in any workplace is important for keeping everyone – from workers to clients to supervisors – safe. In Ontario, there are workplace safety equipment grants to help keep employees and managers safe. A safer working environment requires everyone to be on board. If you are a manager or supervisor, you need to protect yourself, your workers, and your reputation. Contact the experts at ACUTE today to learn more about safe work practices for your entire team!
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Occupational Health, Safety, and Prevention Innovation Program
Grant Information: OHSPIP’s objective is to support workplace-focused innovation projects and collaborative partnerships that lead to improvements in occupational health and safety in Ontario.
Funding Available: Maximum $100,000 annually, up to $200,000 per proposal (non-renewable).
Grant Priorities: The grant priorities are promoting good psychological health, creating solutions that address the risks of working around vehicles and large pieces of mobile equipment, addressing hazardous workplace exposures that result in occupational illnesses and fatalities, and reducing the impact of a workplace injury after it has occurred.
Focus Areas:
• Training and education for occupations (e.g. first responders) where on-the-job traumatic mental stress
and post-traumatic stress disorder can be prevalent.
• Development of programs or services to support workers dealing with mental health issues.
• Training, raising awareness, and promoting best practices as they relate to driver fitness (e.g. drug impairment, driver fatigue, driver stress).
• Training, raising awareness, and promoting best practices for safety-related attitudes and behaviour (e.g. complacency, failure to properly signal).
• Training, raising awareness, and promoting best practices as they relate to driver competency (e.g. road safety training, driving experience).
• Training, raising awareness, and promoting best practices as they relate to vehicle factors (e.g. poor vehicle maintenance, automated vehicles).
• Training and education, raising awareness, and promoting best practices as they relate to hazardous workplace exposures, specifically focusing on diesel engine exhaust, emerging exposures (e.g. nanotechnology), lung and skin allergens or irritants, and noise.
• The surveillance of occupational disease and hazardous exposures in Ontario workplaces.
• The measurement and collection of hazardous exposure data from workplaces.
• Development of tools and strategies to help injured workers avoid re-injury.
• Development of programs and supports to assist injured workers in returning to full health.
Eligibility: All OHSPIP-supported projects must be conducted in Ontario and led by an eligible not-for-profit organization. For-profit entities do not qualify for OHSPIP funding as lead applicants. However, such entities may participate in projects where eligible organizations are the designated project lead.
Canada-Ontario Job Grant
Grant Information: The Job Grant will provide direct financial support to individual employers who wish to purchase training for their employees
Funding Available: The government will contribute up to two-thirds of the total cost of training, up to a maximum of $10,000 per participant.
Grant Priorities: The Canada-Ontario Job Grant provides an opportunity for employers to invest in their workforce, with help from the government. It requires employers to contribute one-third of the total costs. There will be additional flexibility for small businesses to provide an in-kind contribution towards their share of the costs.
Eligibility: This grant is available to small, medium, and large businesses with a plan to deliver short-term training to existing and new employees. Individual private and not-for-profit sector employers that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to apply for the Canada-Ontario Job Grant: Customized Training and the COJG: UPSKILL – These pilots fund partnerships to develop and implement sector-specific, integrated essential and technical skills training for employees. The ministry will only accept proposals submitted on behalf of multiple sectoral employers who have shared workforce development needs.
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Research Opportunities Program
Grant Information: The Research Opportunities Program (ROP)’s objective is to invest in research and knowledge dissemination projects that focus on occupational health and safety system priorities.
Funding Available: Maximum of $150,000 annually (up to $300,000 per proposal).
Eligibility:
The following are eligible organizations:
• Ontario publicly funded universities
• Ontario colleges of applied arts and technology
• Ontario hospital/academic health science centre-based research institutes
• Ontario not-for-profit research institutions, excluding those funded primarily by business or industry
• A consortium of the above, with one institution as lead applicant assuming responsibility and accountability for the consortium
• Other Ontario not-for-profit/charitable organizations at the Ministry’s discretion.
For-profit organizations and agencies of for-profit entities do not qualify for ROP funding as lead institutions. However, such entities may collaborate on research and knowledge dissemination projects where eligible institutions are the designated lead.
For more information about the grant priorities, click here.
WSIB Grants
Grant Information: The central areas of focus of the 2018 WSIB Grants Program are Return to Work and Recovery, and Innovations in Service.
Grant Priorities:
- Initiatives that help workers, employers, and the compensation system resolve long-standing barriers.
- Innovative opportunities that build capacity in the community and offer significant potential to improve compensation system results.
For funding, eligibility and more, contact WSIB here.
Stay Safe at Work With ACUTE!
Hands-on, practical training is the best way to keep employers and workers safe in the workplace. ACUTE is dedicated to workplace safety and understands the importance of course and training provider approval. Why get workplace safety training with ACUTE? Here are just some of the benefits of working with ACUTE.
• Open Door Instructor-Student Partnership – ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff foster relationships with clients and serve as a touchstone for advice anytime moving forward.
• Serving Your Team and Industry – With a vast array of clients in manufacturing, construction, health, academic, and government sectors, ACUTE brings the best safety practices from across the spectrum to your workplace.
• 100 Years Combined Experience – ACUTE provides comprehensive health and safety training, on-site safety services, and consulting services. With over 100 years of combined experience, our company staff offer more than theoretical or abstract ideas. ACUTE offers solutions.
• Track Record of Success – ACUTE is rated 4.9/5 stars on Google reviews, demonstrating a commitment to our clients, quality, and passion for training.
“We have relied on ACUTE for years to train our staff and
keep them safe on the job site.”
– Bob, Millwrighting Company – Read More Testimonials Here!
Click here to see what training courses we have at ACUTE or contact us today for quality training in your workplace or on-site at ACUTE’s proven training facilities!
ACUTE is located in Waterloo, Ontario, and services customers from cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, Kitchener, London, Guelph, and others across Ontario.
