On July 5th, Safety Charter Members from the Okanagan area met at Freeport Industries to hear Chris Inkster discuss his safety journey. The event started with a quick viewing of Chris’s nomination video for the 2019 MSABC “Ben Hume Award” to set the stage. Chris talked about how one of his key concerns is the potential for complacency and a discussion ensued on what others around the table did to keep safety as a focus. He also opened up his tracking of Freeport’s safety record, sharing where he sees potential issues and asked for thoughts from attendees on how to address certain points.

Many topics were also discussed throughout the morning, with attendees touching on topics like “Onboarding of new and young workers”, “Creating culture shifts”, “Recognition (both pros and cons)”, “Millennial expectations” and experience ratings.

Leslie Bradley, CEO of SunRype was overheard to say “…it is great to have a local group like this and be able to put names to faces. You never know when you might need support or someone you trust to bounce ideas off of”.

We were also happy to have Carole Eamer join the group and become the BC Safety Charters newest Signatory.