May 22, 2008
New Dates Announced for 2009 Western Conference on Safety. In response to your many requests the Western Conference on Safety will be moving to a new set of April dates! It will be held April 6 & 7, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.

May 8, 2008
The 2008 Western Conference on Safety is now over and proved to be an overwhelming success. We are still sorting through the hundreds of conference evaluation forms that were turned in and overall the results were extremely positive. We’ll be reviewing them in depth over the next few weeks and will be paying particular attention to your suggestions for making next years conference even better.

The draw prize winners are as follows: Winner of the Garmin GPS: Linda Roseborough of the University of British Columbia, Winner of the Apple I-Pod Classic is Pennie Pokiak of NWT Power and the winner of the $100 “Delegate Evaluation” prize is Laura D’Aloisio of Sears Canada.

Over the couple of weeks we’ll be posting links to the handouts from those conference speakers who agreed to share their presentations over the internet. Please note that some speakers material is protected by copyright and will not be posted here.

Session 2A Safety Leadership (Download)
Session 2B Westray Lessons Learned (Download) - View presenter's website.
Session 2C From Knowing to Doing: Getting the Most from Your Safety Training Efforts. (Download)
Session 4C Measures of Performance for Safety Committees (Download) - View presenter's website.
Session 7C Let Me Entertain You: The Key to Making Effective Presentations (Download)

May 5, 2008
Download a copy the powerpoint presentation made by David Anderson President and Chief Executive Officer of WorkSafeBC’s at the opening ceremonies. Click here to download.