Steps for Life 2026

Promote Safe Work team walked for Steps of Life on Sunday, May 3, 2026 in honour of those affected by workplace fatalities and serious injuries.

This year we raised $1,101,297 across Canada!

See you in 2027!

May 3, 2026

Minerva-UCalgary Learning Forum

Thank you Haskayne School of Business and Minerva Canada Safety Management Education for hosting the Learning Forum.

Tom and Sam spoke about Promote Safe Work's creative sentencing and ongoing research.

Great to see familiar faces and meet new people!

April 23, 2026

Alberta H&S Conference

Thomas O'Neill and Rick Sikora presented last week at the 23rd Alberta Health & Safety Conference in Edmonton, AB.

A great two days focused on Zero Harm: Rethinking What's Possible.

Thanks to everyone who attended!

Promote Safe Work partnered with Cranemasters Hoisting + Rigging Training

April 15-16, 2026

Talks in Perth, Australia

Dr. Thomas O'Neill travelled to Perth, Australia in February 2026 and gave three talks related to the creative sentencing work covered by Promote Safe Work. Australia shares many overlaps with Canada when it comes to heavy and high-risk industries and a number of groups have welcomed our team to share insights.

Did You Know? Australia participates in a similar process as Canada's creative sentences, but they call them "Enforceable Undertakings"

February 2026

1. MARS Centre (Mental Awareness, Respect, and Safety

Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities in Mining and Heavy Industry: Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Context of Alberta.

2. Safer Together, Cranes and Lifting Working Group

Creative Sentences, Enforceable Undertakings, and Rigging Safety in Alberta versus Western Australia.

3. Curtin University, Future of Work Institute

Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities in Mining and Heavy Industry: The Role of Creative Sentences and Enforceable Undertakings.

An Alberta Society for Safe Rigging, Hoisting, and Lifting: Visioning and Strategizing

Over 110 attendees gathered in Edmonton to collaborate and discuss the vision and strategies for an Alberta Society for Safe Rigging, Hoisting, and Lifting.

Thanks to everyone who joined - it was a fantastic event!

January 28, 2026

Mini - Summit

Promote Safe Work hosted a one-day information sharing event to gather a small group of subject matter experts involved in Alberta's rigging and lifting.

December 10, 2025

ACSA Annual Conference

Dr. Thomas O'Neill gave a Safety Spotlight talk on the following: Rigging and Hoisting: Time for a Shared Alberta Standard?

November 5 & 6, 2025

The team also hosted a booth to talk with conference attendees and spread awareness about Promote Safe Work's inititatives.

Dr. Estacio Periera gave a Safety Spotlight talk to discuss his innovative research project, a virtual reality crane safety simulator.

Strategic Industry Panels

Our team hosted two Strategic Industry Panels to talk about safety in Rigging, Hoisting, and Lifting in Alberta. In Edmonton and Calgary we gathered experts to generate a discussion about developing tools, standards, and strategies to reduce Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs).

September 18, 2025 & October 8, 2025

"What do you commit to doing differently today to enhance the safety of your rigging and lifting practices?"

MHSA 25th Annual Stars Golf Tournament

This summer we joined the 25th Annual Stars Golf Tournament hosted by the Manufacturing Health and Safety Association!

We served up our (non-alcoholic) Safety Spritz on the green and chatted with golfers about our Creative Sentence project.

August 21, 2025

Visit to Canyon Rigging

On August 8, the Promote Safe Work team visited the Calgary Canyon Rigging facility to learn about how their team manufactures and provides rigging and lifting hardware to the industry.

The team gave us a tour of the facility, and we plan to meet again later this summer!

August 8, 2025

Visit to MHSA

On June 6, the Promote Safe Work team travelled out to RockyView County to visit the Manufacturing Health and Safety Association Site.

We learned about how MHSA teaches and talks about Rigging, Hoisting, and Lifting, and the potential for a common standard in AB.

June 6, 2025

Steps for Life 2025

On May 4, a few members of our team walked 5km around the Glenmore Reservoir for the Steps for Life fundraiser.

Steps for Life – Walking for Families of Workplace Tragedy: It’s a one-of-a-kind event that continues to make strides for workplace health and safety and families affected by workplace tragedy.

This year they raised 1,087,196 across Canada to be invested in peer-support programs for families!

May 4, 2025

Where Are We?

We are proud to call Calgary, Alberta, Canada home.

We respectfully acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).