HSE Updates Week of 10 Dec 2025 – RAE, OHS,

Greetings,

Please review the applicable HSE Updates.

• Company Safety Meeting Presentation:   deadline: two weeks following the Company Safety Meeting
  • It is mandatory to review the Company Safety Meeting on SiteDocs and sign-off that you have done so. If the deadline has passed – you missed it but are still expected to review and sign-off the presentation in SiteDocs.
• 2025 Emergency Response Drills: All staff are required to participate/sign-off for their assigned branch(es).
• H&S Bulletin: Answer due by 8am last Friday of the month
  • See attached: December 2025 Health and Safety Bulletin
• Health and Safety Committee: Next Meeting: usually Thurs before last Fri of the month
  • If you can’t join the HSC meetings,  you can still participate by providing feedback, questions, or concerns to hsc@raeengineering.ca. Please submit feedback prior to the next meeting so it can be brought forward.
  • The HSC meets the last Thursday of each month at 1pm via Teams
  • Previous HSC Meeting Minutes can be found in the Teams Channel, attached, and on SiteDocs
• Safety Rewards Program: Where your commitment to RAE’s Safety Culture is rewarded!
  • Submit more cards! Be specific in how your coworkers are contributing to safety! The latest PRC winners are:
    • $500 Best Card Winner: Emile de Lange
    • $100 Safety PRC Draw:  William Yan
  • If you have any questions or concerns about the Safety Rewards Program, or would like to sign-up to do a presentation, please email hsc@raeengineering.ca.
• Peer Recognitions: Due by Company Safety Meeting each month

OHS

• OHS has issued OHS eNews – December 2025 which features:
  • Working on ice: Winter is tightening its icy grip in many parts of Alberta, and the province’s lakes, ponds and rivers are in various stages of freezing over. Doing any kind of work while on the surface of frozen bodies of water can present unique hazards, and it’s vital to know how to avoid a potentially fatal plunge through the ice.
  • Impairment in the workplace: As people attend holiday parties and begin enjoying the festivities of the season, it’s an opportune time to remember that impairment is a workplace health and safety hazard. Although Alberta’s OHS Act and Code don’t specifically address workplace impairment, employers, supervisors and workers have responsibilities to ensure a healthy and safe workplace—including in relation to impairment hazards.
  • National Safe Driving Week: December 1-7 is National Safe Driving Week throughout Canada. This annual event raises awareness about the hazards of unsafe driving behaviours, such as driving while impaired or distracted. It’s important to know that under Alberta OHS legislation, any vehicle being used away from a work site for work purposes—even a personal vehicle—is itself considered to be a work site. That means employers and workers share responsibility for ensuring health and safety in relation to that vehicle.
  • Upcoming live webinars on employment standards:
    • Overview of Employment Standards in Alberta: January 13 at 1:30 p.m.
    • Temporary Foreign Worker and Employer Rights and Responsibilities: January 28 at 1:30 p.m.
  • WCB’s Worksight newsletter: Worksight is a monthly digital newsletter from the Workers’ Compensation Board-Alberta (WCB). It provides Alberta employers with timely information about workers’ compensation topics and supports available for injured workers and employers
  • OHS: Beyond the numbers: WCB fatality claims resulting from falls (2019-2023)
    • Leading Types of Falls:
      • Fall from ladder: 21%
      • Fall to floor, walkways, or other surface: 21%
      • Fall to lower level: 21%
      • Fall from non-moving vehicle: 10%
      • Fall from roof: 6%
      • Fall from scaffold, staging, platform: 6%
    • Here are more facts about these fall-related fatality claims:
    • The claims spanned across 42 different WCB industries.
      • The highest percentage of fatality claims (50 per cent) was in the construction and construction trade services sector, followed by the wholesale and retail sector (13 per cent) and the manufacturing, processing and packaging sector (11 per cent).
      • Industrial, electrical and construction trades workers made up more than one-third of fatality claims.
      • Workers age 55 and older accounted for around two-thirds of fatality claims.
      • Almost half of the fatalities didn’t occur immediately after a fall, but rather were the results of long-term medical consequences from the fall.
      • The vast majority (94 per cent) of the fatalities involved male workers.
    • To learn more about how to prevent falls in the workplace, see the slips, trips and falls resources on the OHS Resource Portal.