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SAFE Work Awards submission criteria

Contest rules

Contest rules of The Workers Compensation Board operating as SAFE Work Manitoba (“SAFE Work Manitoba”) for the SAFE Work Awards (the “Contest”). 

 

Overview

Each year, SAFE Work Manitoba recognizes Manitoba individuals, safety and health committees, and companies/organizations that demonstrate a strong commitment to the health and safety of their workers.

The a​wards are given in three categories: SAFEty Culture Award, Worker SAFEty Award, and SAFEty and Health Committee Award. Applicants are required to complete an online nomination form that outlines how the nominee has fulfilled the requirements of the nomination category. Judges base their decision on the nomination form, as well as our compliance criteria.

As applicable, nominees must: 

  • not have had a workplace fatality in the past 36 months 
  • not have been charged under The Workplace Safety and Health Act in the last 36 months 
  • not be subject to an administrative penalty or prosecution under The Workplace Safety and Health Act 
  • be in compliance with any outstanding order, as determined by the Workplace Safety and Health Branch (WSH), and not have a history of compliance concerns, as determined by WSH 
  • be in good standing with the Workers Compensation Board if an account exists, which means: 
    • the account is paid in full (e.g., can obtain a WCB clearance) 
    • the firm has not been convicted of fraud against the WCB, a violation of The Workers Compensation Act (the Act), claims suppression, reprisals, or breach of return to work obligations in the last 36 months 
    • the firm has not been issued an administrative penalty for claims suppression, reprisals, or failure to comply with return to work obligations in the last 24 months 
    • the firm is not under an active investigation for a violation under the Act for claims suppression, reprisals, or breach of return to work obligations, as determined by WCB Compliance 
    • there are no outstanding remedial actions imposed on the firm to ensure compliance with preventing claims suppression, reprisals, or return to work obligations, as determined by WCB Compliance 
    • not engage in conduct considered by SAFE Work Manitoba to be inconsistent with participation in this awards program. 

 

Important dates 

  • The contest closing date is June 25​, 2025 at 4 PM, based on the time in Winnipeg, Manitoba 
  • Winner notified by ​July 30, 2025 

 

How to enter

1. No purchase is necessary to participate in the Contest.

2. Online entry forms must be submitted by 4 PM on June 25, 2025, based on the time in Winnipeg, Manitoba (the “Contest Period”) and are available here.

3. Entries will be void if they are incomplete, late, lost, damaged, or if they cannot be viewed due to a technical error. SAFE Work Manitoba will not tolerate submissions that are offensive to an individual or organization, rude in tone, or abusive. SAFE Work Manitoba does not discriminate against any views, but reserves the right to refuse, edit, or remove any content it deems inappropriate, including but not limited to any of the following:

  1. Racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, slanderous, insulting, or life-threatening content; 
  2. Serious, unproven, unsupported, or inaccurate accusations against individuals or organizations;
  3. Abusive, aggressive, coarse, explicit, vulgar, violent, obscene, or pornographic content; 
  4. Content that encourages or suggests illegal activity;
  5. Announcements, solicitations, advertisements, or endorsements of specific organizations or agencies; and
  6. Attempts to defame or disparage an individual, group, or agency.

 

Who can enter

4. The Contest is only open to legal residents of Manitoba. SAFE Work Manitoba may stipulate age limits in its Contest related materials. Where an entrant is a minor, a parent or guardian who is at least the age of eighteen (18) must indicate acceptance of these Contest rules for the entrant to be eligible for their prize. In such instance the prize will still be awarded to the entrant.

5. SAFE Work Manitoba employees or employees of other workers compensation boards, provincial and federal ministries, and departments of labour and their immediate family members are eligible to enter and potentially be awarded a prize in the Contest, but are not eligible to be sent to any national level if the Contest is a skills-based competition. Please indicate if you fall into this category on your Contest entry form.

 

The Award

6. After the Contest Period, SAFE Work Manitoba will select the potential award recipient(s) according to the methodology stated in its materials distributed as part of the Contest. The winner of each category will receive a trophy recognizing their award win, recognition at the annual Safetys Gala, and be invited to take part in a video with their nominator. The video will air at the Safetys Gala, be posted on SAFE Work Manitoba’s YouTube channel, and copies will be given to the nominator and winner.

7. Any other award related expenses not specifically included herein are the sole responsibility of the award recipient.

8. ​Awards are subject to the following restrictions:

  1. Each prize is non-transferable, non-exchangeable, not redeemable for cash and no component thereof is convertible to cash; 
  2. An award must be accepted as issued by SAFE Work Manitoba.

 

Award winners

9. The potential award winners will be selected at the date and time stipulated by SAFE Work Manitoba in its materials distributed as part of the Contest from all eligible entries submitted, in accordance with the award​ rules. A formal announcement of the prize recipient(s) will be made public no later than 4 PM on July 30, 2025, based on the time in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This requirement may be satisfied via an online notice being posted on www.safemanitoba.com.

10. Following the potential prize recipient selection process, the selected entrants will be contacted in response to their Contest entry.

11. Return of any prize notification email as undeliverable may result in disqualification, and an alternate potential prize recipient may be selected.

12. Before becoming a confirmed prize recipient, the entrant (or their parent/guardian on their behalf in case of a minor) will be required to: ​

  1. respond to the prize notification email or telephone call within seventy-two (72) hours of transmission or voice message, whichever is sooner; 
  2. sign and return within the time stipulated by SAFE Work Manitoba, a release stating that, among other things, the entrant (or their parent/guardian on their behalf in case of a minor):
  1. has read and understood and complies with the Contest rules;
  2. authorizes SAFE Work Manitoba to broadcast, publish, and disseminate potential prize recipient’s name, place of residence, photograph, likeness, voice, and original user generated content in connection with any promotion or publicity, and/or for general news, entertainment, and information purposes at no additional compensation to the potential prize recipient;
  3. waives their moral rights in the original user generated content submitted as part of the Contest and grants SAFE Work Manitoba and its agents, a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, translate, create, derivative works from, distribute, display, and otherwise utilize the submitted original user generated content for marketing and editorial purposes worldwide; and
  4. ​releases SAFE Work Manitoba, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube platforms and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability in connection with the Contest, the entrant’s participation therein, and the use of the entrant’s original user generated content.  

13. In the event that a potential prize recipient does not comply with all the provisions as contemplated in the Contest rules (determined by SAFE Work Manitoba in its sole and absolute discretion), SAFE Work Manitoba has the right to disqualify such potential prize recipient and move to select a new prize recipient by the same method used to select the disqualified prize recipient and the Released Parties shall be fully and completely released and discharged from any liability or responsibility in this regard. The provisions and procedures referred to above relating to the selection and notification of potential prize recipients shall be applied, with the necessary amendments, until all qualified prize recipients of the Contest have been duly selected.

14. The chances of becoming a potential prize recipient will depend on the number of eligible entries received.

 

Consent to personal information use and disclosure 

15. By entering the Contest, entrants consent to SAFE Work Manitoba’s collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information provided in Contest entries for the administration of the Contest and in aggregated, non-personal form in order to create reports regarding Contest entrant demographics, which SAFE Work Manitoba may use and publicize as part of its operations.

16. By entering this Contest, award recipients authorize SAFE Work Manitoba and its agents to publish and/or broadcast their name, place of residence, photograph, likeness, voice, and/or any statement made in connection with winning a prize, without compensation of any kind other than the prize awarded.

17. SAFE Work Manitoba’s privacy statement and terms of use is found at www.safemanitoba.com. If you have questions about SAFE Work Manitoba’s handling of your personal information, please contact the Access and Privacy Officer at:

Email: info@wcb.mb.ca
Phone: 1-204-954-4557 

Mail:
The Workers Compensation Board
Attention: Access and Privacy Officer
333 Broadway
Winnipeg, MB R3C 4W3

18. Participants who indicate in their entry form that they wish to receive SAFE Work Manitoba’s e-newsletter further consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information (including their email address) by SAFE Work Manitoba for the purpose of providing the e-newsletter. Signing-up for the e-newsletter will not affect your odds of winning. SAFE Work Manitoba shall ensure its e-newsletter complies with Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), including the right to unsubscribe.

Waiver of Moral Rights/Assignment of Copyright for User Generated Content 

19. Any original user generated content submitted by you may be used by SAFE Work Manitoba in advertising campaigns. SAFE Work Manitoba may post the entries of original user generated content on www.wcb.mb.ca to be available for download by teachers, parents, employers, and other interested parties to educate, train, and orient Manitoba workers. By entering the Contest, you agree to waive your moral rights to your original user generated content and to grant SAFE Work Manitoba and/or its agents, a world-wide royalty-free, perpetual irrevocable and fully sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce, modify adapt, edit, publish, translate, create, derivative works from, distribute, display, and otherwise utilize your submitted original user generated content for marketing and editorial purposes worldwide, which may include the following channels: online, email, direct mail, broadcasting including radio, television and cinema, internal communications, print and publishing, national, regional, and trade press, or billboard, poster mobile vehicle and other outdoor and public large-scale posters or displays, and illuminated and projected displays, and irrevocably waive all image rights, performers’ rights and similar rights worldwide.

20. Entrants who submit a photo or any other user generated content in which they do not own the moral rights and/or copyright, or in respect of which they are unable to grant a valid copyright licence on the terms above, agree to pay for all costs, damages, awards, fines, penalties, and losses that SAFE Work Manitoba suffers as a result of using that photo or other user generated content. 

21. Entrants agree that their original user generated content may be combined with text and any other media, and may be altered, cropped, or modified. Entrants waive the right to inspect or approve any use of their submitted original user generated content. Entrants acknowledge and agree that they have no right to consideration for such usage of their submitted original user generated content and hereby release and discharge SAFE Work Manitoba from any liability by virtue of any uses, including any claims for libel and invasion of privacy, to the extent permitted by law. Entrants release SAFE Work Manitoba from any liability and undertake not to prosecute or to institute proceedings, claims, or demands for any remuneration, or otherwise, against SAFE Work Manitoba in respect of any usage of their submitted original user generated content.

 

Disclaimer and liability exclusion

22. SAFE Work Manitoba will not, under any circumstances, be responsible for, or liable to any Contest entrant or any other person for:

  1. any erroneous, lost, damaged, late, incomplete, misdirected, deleted, defective, or altered Contest entry, regardless of the cause 
  2. any failure for any reason whatsoever of the selected entrant to receive a prize notification email;
  3. any changes in email addresses or email address assignments after a Contest entry forms has been submitted; 
  4. any computer, online, telephone, technical malfunctions, or errors that may occur, regardless of the cause; or
  5. any damage or loss, including any loss of use, loss of production, loss of profits (anticipated or otherwise), loss of markets, economic loss, special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage or punitive damages, whether in contract, tort or under any other theory of law or equity, arising from, connected with, or relating to the Contest or the submission of entries to the Contest or participation in the Contest or the Contest prize, or the use of the www.wcb.mb.ca web site (including the downloading of any materials from that web site) and regardless of the cause or any negligence by SAFE Work Manitoba or anyone for whom SAFE Work Manitoba is responsible, and notwithstanding that SAFE Work Manitoba may have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage being incurred.

23. BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, EACH INDIVIDUAL ENTRANT AGREES TO INDEMNIFY, RELEASE, AND HOLD HARMLESS SAFE WORK MANITOBA, FACEBOOK, INSTRAGRAM, TWITTER, AND YOUTUBE PLATFORMS (IF USED IN ANY MANNER RELATED TO THE CONTEST), ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCIES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) FROM ANY LIABILITY, DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR INJURY RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM THAT ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST AND THE ACCEPTANCE, USE, OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE THAT MAY BE WON. NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE CONDITION, FITNESS OR MERCHANTABILITY OF THE PRIZE ARE MADE BY ANY PARTY. THE RELEASED PARTIES DISCLAIM ANY LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE TO ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM RESULTING FROM ACCESS TO OR THE DOWNLOAD OF INFORMATION OR MATERIALS CONNECTED WITH THE CONTEST.

 

Other Matters

24. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of being conducted as intended by SAFE Work Manitoba, including due to computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause that corrupts or interferes with the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, SAFE Work Manitoba may, at its sole discretion, disqualify any entrant responsible for such misconduct and cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest. ​

25. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND SAFE WORK MANITOBA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND/OR OTHER RELIEF FROM ALL RESPONSIBLE PERSONS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

26. Decisions of Contest judges in respect of any aspect of the Contest are final and binding on all entrants.

27. Participation in the Contest, evidenced by submitting an entry, constitutes acceptance and agreement to these Contest rules.

28. The Contest is subject to all applicable Canadian federal, provincial, and local laws and is void where prohibited by law. If any provision of these rules is found by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, all other provisions will remain in full force and effect.

29. SAFE Work Manitoba, as a public body, is subject to disclosure of documents under its control pursuant to The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. 

30. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of the Contest rules and disclosures or other statements contained in any Contest related materials, including but not limited to the Contest entry form, radio, television, print or online advertising, the terms and conditions of these Contest rules shall prevail, govern, and control the parties.

31. All intellectual property, including but not limited to SAFE Work Manitoba official marks, business names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source codes, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by SAFE Work Manitoba. All rights are reserved.

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