Safe Worker Award
2024 Safe Worker Award winner
Nathan Duncan, Finning Canada
Regina, Sask.
This year’s Safe Worker Award winner is Nathan Duncan, an application specialist at Finning Canada in Regina, Sask. Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to safety, Duncan extends his safety ethos beyond the confines of his immediate workplace. His role, which predominantly involves working off-site on customer premises, includes orienting heavy equipment operators and the sales team on the safe usage of newly purchased heavy equipment and conducting safety-oriented equipment demonstrations.
Duncan often says that safety is part of culture and one way to start the positive culture change is to always demonstrate safe practices. After a fatality on a customer’s worksite a few years ago could have been prevented with a seat belt, Duncan saw a need to speak up.
“I’ve got the opportunity to reach out to the entire industry when I’m delivering equipment,” he says. “I feel like I’ve got the opportunity to make a change in the industry by promoting all these important safety benefits that are often overlooked in the construction industry.”
Duncan takes safety beyond the walls of Finning to promote, train and demonstrate safe practices for equipment operators all over the province.
“We’ve got to change. This industry needs to change,” he says. “We need to make operators more safe. And I’ve … been out there promoting it as part of my daily routine.”
Safe Worker Award committee members
Labour Relations and Workplace Safety
Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board
Saskatchewan Safety Council
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
