Keeping Workers Well 2024
Thursday, May 23 – Virtual Workshops
Friday, May 24 – Virtual Conference
2024 Sponsors
Founded in 1996, DriverCheck is Canada’s Fitness for Duty expert and the country’s leading provider of workplace medical testing and assessments. With a network of more than 1,200 clinics across the country and a team of medical professionals, DriverCheck serves thousands of employers in a variety of safety-sensitive industries including transportation, oil and gas, aviation, rail, mining, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, and forestry. Each year, DriverCheck conducts hundreds of thousands of on-site and clinic-based medical tests and provides a wide variety of occupational health and fitness-for-duty services, including drug and alcohol testing, pre-employment medicals, physical abilities tests, regulated medical surveillance testing and medical cannabis reviews. In addition, DriverCheck provides onsite medical staffing solutions for employers across Canada. Learn more about DriverCheck’s solutions to build a healthier and safer world at drivercheck.ca.
Renascent is an accredited leader in the addiction treatment field, serving individuals, families, and workplaces impacted by substance use disorders for over 50 years. We are committed to helping save lives through compassionate, transformative, evidence-based addiction and mental health programs. Renascent offers diverse treatment options for drug and alcohol addiction, including gender-supportive, intensive live-in treatment; virtual intensive treatment; and continuing care, family, and children’s programs. www.renascent.ca
Ridgeway Occupational Consultants Inc. (“Ridgeway”) is a full-service occupational health company that takes pride in helping employers keep their workforces healthy. For almost thirty years, Ridgeway has provided our services to both public and private-sector organizations across Ontario. Our wide range of services include: helping with disability management programs (everything from consulting on complex cases to fully managing your company’s program), coordinating and overseeing medical surveillance programs for designated substances, conducting pre-placement and periodic employee medical examinations (either onsite or at our clinic in Mississauga), executing mobile hearing testing clinics, inoculating workforces through vaccine clinics, and educating employees on topics such as mental health first aid and general wellness. www.ridgewayhealth.ca
Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute provides training, consulting, books, and free resources in the areas of trauma, mental health, wellness, counselling skills, and violence prevention. At the heart of our training materials and resources is a belief that everyone should be trauma-informed. www.ctrinstitute.com
Gowan Consulting partners with employers to provide customized sustainable health and disability management solutions for workplaces. Our occupational therapists are located across Canada and provide on-site and virtual services for supporting stay at work and return to work. We provide work accommodation services, return to work planning, mental health support, ergonomic services, job demands analysis, consultation, and training. www.gowanhealth.com
2024 Education Champions
ERGO Inc. has been providing practical ergonomics & injury prevention solutions to prevent workplace injuries for over 30 years. ERGO Inc.Ergonomists are Certified Professionals who conduct onsite Ergonomics Services and specialize in Ergonomics Risk Assessments, Ergonomics Training, Office Ergonomics and Hybrid Work, Physical and Cognitive Demands Assessments, injury & RTW Accommodation Assessments, Ergonomic Design and Ergonomics Program Set up. www.ergoconsulting.ca
Levitt-Safety Limited is Canada’s leading provider of Occupational Health and Wellness products and programs, including Audiometers, Spirometers, Vision Screeners, ECG’s, AED’s and Respirator Fit Testers. We also offer a complete line of first aid and medical supplies, as well as medical furnishings and hand-held diagnostic devices. With innovative new products for Employee Wellness programs, like interactive Biometric Kiosks, Health and Wellness apps, and interactive impaired and distracted driving systems, we are the “One Stop Shop” for Occupational Health Nurses. www.levitt-safety.com
Since 2007, Workplace Strategies for Mental Health has been creating free resources that occupational health nurses use to support workplace mental health and protect the psychological safety of employees. These assessments, tools and workshop materials are:
- Evidence- and practice-based
- Customizable
- In English and French
- Free to download or print
