Saskatchewan students win national workplace safety video contest

A screen grab from this year’s winning video. Source: YouTube

The winners of the 2023 National Focus on Safety Youth Video Contest have been announced by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS).

The video contest challenged youth across the country to use their creativity to produce an original video that could be used in social media to illustrate to younger workers the importance of working safely on the job, it said in a press release.

Contestants and their affiliated organizations, institutions, or schools had a chance to win cash prizes, and provincial/territorial, regional, and national recognition.

Nine entries were accepted for national consideration from provincial, territorial, and regional contests. The videos entered in the national contest were evaluated by a panel of judges consisting of Shirley Hickman, executive director, Threads of Life; Kerry Moraes-Sugiyama, national executive, APTN; Andrew Shaver, past national executive vice-president, Union of National Employees Public Service Alliance of Canada and Chelsea Wong, volunteer youth advisory group, Youth Mental Health Canada.

Watch the winning videos

First place: Safety is no accident

Producers: Lucas Freeley, Jerico Manaloto
Holy Rosary High School Lloydminster Catholic School Division, Saskatchewan

Second place: Un jeu d’enfant

Producer: Cédric Loubier
Quebec

Third place: Sécurité au travail

Producer: Lilianne Gagné
Mathieu Martin, New Brunswick

Quick facts

• The national contest is sponsored by CCOHS; CCOHS also contributes to the prizes for the regional, provincial, and territorial contest winners.
• Contestants and their affiliated organizations/institutions (schools) have an opportunity to win cash prizes, and regional/provincial/territorial and national recognition.
• The winning videos from each of the regional/provincial/territorial contests are entered into the national contest.
• The first-place video at the Canadian finals wins $2,000, second place receives $1,500, and third place receives $1,000. Each winning school or institution also receives a matching prize.