Congratulations to  this local employer – one of the safest employers in Canada

HOSPITALITY
Gold: Tinhorn Creek Vineyards

A family-run business that is 400 kilometres from Vancouver in a wilderness “over the irrigation canal and at the top of Tinhorn Creek Road” faces some pretty unusual health and safety challenges. According to Sandra Oldfield, CEO and president of Tinhorn Creek Vineyards, the 1,000 hazards on the property include “rattlesnakes and bears, heavy boxes of wine and unruly customers.”

Until seven years ago, the winery’s health and safety efforts focused only on the cellars where wine is made and stored. In 2009, Oldfield hired an Australian vineyard manager and viticulturist who emphasized the company needed a comprehensive health and safety plan to ensure everyone was as safe as the cellar workers. Since her 50-employee business is relatively small, developing such a program meant Oldfield had to give up her evenings for a year to develop the framework herself. Chosen October 24th.

Pictures – ODN
Copy – Canadian Occupational Safety COS