Monthly news & updates

Fleet Safety Council Central Chapter June BBQ

The Fleet Safety Council (FSC) Central Chapter is excited to welcome back Doug Marcello from Saxton and Stump as the speaker for the June chapter meeting.

After the meeting, the chapter will host their annual BBQ. Tickets are $10 for members and $20 for non-members.

The meeting is open to everyone. However, registration is required to attend the BBQ.

Fleet Safety Council Annual Conference updates

Reminder: Fleet Safety Council Regional Award nominations closing soon!

Nominations continue to come in for the FSC Regional Awards! Each year, FSC chapters honour one outstanding driver and one outstanding safety professional for their dedication to keeping our roads safe.

Nominations are open until June 30, 2025, and regional winners will be announced during the September chapter meetings.

Regional winners will then move on as finalists for the prestigious Provincial Driver of the Year or Provincial Safety Professional of the Year awards, proudly sponsored by TruckRight.

Click here to learn more about the awards!

IHSA Health and Safety Awards: Still time to submit your nominations!

IHSA is accepting nominations until June 30, 2025. Do not miss this chance to nominate a deserving individual, team, or committee for the John M. Beck Award, Electrical Utility Safety Excellence & Innovation Award, Roy A. Phinnemore Award, Gil Samson Award, Ken Hellawell Transportation Safety Award, or the Maria (Filice) Mason Award of Excellence.

Save the date! IHSA will present all awards at its annual general meeting on October 8, 2025. More details coming soon!

Visit our website to learn more about the awards, last year's recipients, and some of the other awards available through IHSA.

Latest episodes of the IHSA Safety Podcast

The IHSA Safety Podcast is a free podcast that seeks to improve the lives of workers in Ontario. Listen to the latest episode now:

Episode 108: Building a Culture of Safety: Preventing MVIs Through Road Safety Programs (Part 1)

Health and safety basics for new and young workers

IHSA's latest guide, Health and Safety Basics for New and Young Workers (W056), is designed to help new entrants to the workforce understand their rights, responsibilities, and the importance of safety from day one.

The guide provides an overview of several key topics:

• Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act
• Key worker rights: the right to know, participate, and refuse unsafe work
• Employer and worker responsibilities
• Training requirements and resources
• Tips for workplace orientation and hazard awareness

Preventing complacency on the job

There is a common, but hard to detect, factor in many worker injuries and fatalities: complacency. In health and safety, complacency is a mindset that develops when someone underestimates the hazards on a jobsite and the risk of an incident. It leads to them being less aware of their surroundings and less vigilant about following health and safety policies and procedures.

IHSA has created several resources to help employers and employees combat complacency on the job:

• Article: Preventing complacency on the job
• Safety talk: A culture of care: Why speaking up matters
• IHSA Safety Podcast episode: See Something, Say Something: Speaking up about Unsafe Conditions (Episode 98)

IHSA safety talks

With the support of the Labour-Management Network, IHSA continues to publish new and relevant safety talks, including some new additions on the topics of culture, occupational health, and mental health:

• A culture of care: Why speaking up matters
• Mental health and addictions are human rights issues
• Diesel exhaust

Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance adding language proficiency to Out-of-Service Criteria

Effective June 25, 2025, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will add an “English Proficiency (U.S. Only)” heading to the “Part I – Driver” section of the North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria with the following language:

Driver cannot read and speak the English language sufficiently to communicate with the safety official to respond to official inquiries and directions in accordance with FMCSA enforcement guidance. (391.11(b)(2)) Declare driver out of service.

Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development implements compliance commitments

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development has introduced compliance commitments to the continuum of options that inspectors have when enforcing the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) and its regulations.

Compliance commitments are commitments made by workplace parties to an inspector to correct specific administrative or low-risk contraventions of the OHSA and its regulations.

Reminder: Manitoba moving forward with National Safety Code number marking requirements on trucks, effective July 1

Effective July 1, all trucks that operate into and through Manitoba will be required to display their National Safety Code number (NSC#). Out-of-province carriers are not exempt from this requirement when travelling in Manitoba. 

School Crossing Guard Appreciation Week

School Crossing Guard Appreciation Week is a week-long event taking place June 2 to 6, 2025. The event recognizes and honours the essential contributions of school crossing guards in our communities.

This initiative goes beyond a simple “thank you” and strives to create a heightened awareness of these unsung heroes’ critical role in promoting safe and active travel to school.

Truck driver sentenced to 10 years in crash that killed four people

Jagmeet Grewal, the truck driver who killed four people and injured four others on August 5, 2019, in a massive pileup on Highway 440 in Laval, was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Judge Yanick Laramée wanted to send a strong message to both society in general and truck drivers in particular. She also emphasized the man’s disregard for human life, whose guilt on a charge of criminal negligence was established in February 2024 at the Laval courthouse.

Central Ontario Regional Truck Driving Championship

The Central Ontario Regional Truck Driving Championship will take place on June 14, 2025, at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. Learn more about the event:

• Flyer
• Volunteer form
• Sponsorship
• Entry form

Transportation industry partner news and resources

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Industry partner news and resources: June 2025

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