The WSIB’s 2025 Small Business Health and Safety Leadership Awards – gold winner DESO Construction Limited.
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The WSIB logo appears.
A large garage door with windows opens, and outside is a construction excavator.
People secure a large pipe to a lifting hook attached to construction vehicle. | Upbeat music |
| Graphics appear on the screen that say “Gold winner, DESO Construction Limited, Small Business Health and Safety Leadership Awards” | Health and safety is critical for the work that we do. |
A man sitting in a chair in an office setting appears on the screen along with a title card that says:
“Shane Stewart, Health and Safety Manager, DESO Construction Limited” | There's a lot of stuff in place here. Like a lot. |
| A series of video clips appear on screen: a fire extinguisher, an automated external defibrillator (AED), a wall with safety signage, hand sanitizer, a first aid kit and a naloxone kit. | Upbeat music |
| Shane Stewart sitting in a chair in an office setting. | We have recently become ISO 45001 certified. We're COR equivalent. |
A woman standing in a garage-like setting appears on the screen along with a title card that says:
“Lisa Sousa, Office Manager, DESO Construction Limited” | To win the gold award with WSIB was a bit of a surprise to us |
| A group of people wearing DESO-branded jackets sitting around a table reviewing safety binders and taking notes. | but it's really awesome to be recognized. |
Shane Stewart sitting in a chair in an office setting.
A series of video clips appear on screen: a tablet that shows safety software on the screen, two people in safety vests and hard hats looking at a tablet, a person sitting in a truck opening the glove compartment and then looking through a plastic file folder with safety pamphlets on the seat. | We've implemented a safety software that houses all of our training records, daily, weekly, monthly inspections. |
Lisa Sousa standing in a garage-like setting.
A group of people wearing DESO-branded jackets sitting around a table reviewing safety binders, speaking with each other and taking notes. | We found that we've had to move forward with different approaches on safety so that we avoid being complacent. |
| On screen are video clips of Shane Stewart sitting in a chair in an office setting, a group of people standing wearing safety vests and hard hats talking to each other and close up on hands holding a naloxone kit. | A couple of things we're particularly proud of that we've just recently put in place is introducing naloxone kits into our office shop. All of our company vehicles.
We've provided naloxone awareness training to all of our employees. We've also put in place AEDs in our shop and just recently purchased one for on-site use. |
| On screen are video clips Shane Stewart sitting in a chair in an office setting, a group of people standing wearing safety vests and hard hats with close ups on hands holding a naloxone kit, puncture rated safety gloves and a disposal container for sharp objects, a person putting on a safety harness and a group of people in safety vests and hard hats setting up metal tripod. | We put in place with the naloxone kits, two nasal sprays. It has a first aid CPR mask in it, puncture rated gloves, sharps disposal containers. One of the biggest reasons we put that in place was just the ongoing opioid crisis that we are in. Just taking a proactive approach to protect our crews from stuff that they could very well encounter on-site. |
A man standing in front of a garage door windows with construction vehicles in the background appears on the screen along with a title card that says:
“Michael Johnson, Pipe-layer, DESO Construction Limited”
Michael Johnson and another person sitting across from each other at a desk reviewing papers. | Makes me feel very proud that I'm working for a company that has won this award, and I also feel comfortable that I know that I'm going to be going home safe. |
| A series of video clips appear on screen: Shane Stewart sitting in a chair in an office setting, a safety board on a wall with safety posters, clipboards with policies and other safety information, a wall with a fire extinguisher, first aid kit, naloxone kit, alert horn and safety papers on clipboards, and group of people standing wearing safety vests and hard hats. | We have our safety boards with all of our health and safety policies, our SDSs. We also conduct weekly toolbox talks. I think that's it. |
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