Get Involved!
There are several ways you and your organization can Get Involved with WorkSafe Colorado, including:
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Support the Governor's Proclamation - Submit Your Signature Below
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Join us for a WorkSafe Colorado Meeting
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Sponsor Our Organization
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Attend Special Events and Trainings
Please give your support for the Governor's WorkSafe Proclamation by submitting your signature below:
To Promote Workplace Health and Safety
WHERAS, Colorado is a leader in technology, innovation, and venture capital investment and consistently ranks in the top ten for per capita gross state product (1) ; and
WHERAS, Colorado employers, workers, and trade unions are essential to Colorado’s economic success; and
WHERAS, Colorado employs people in many high-risk industries and the occupational risks of many new technologies are still unknown; and
WHERAS, on average in Colorado, there are over 2,500 work-related hospitalizations annually and one worker dies every three to four days due to occupational injury or illness (2) ; and
WHERAS, ensuring the health and safety of Colorado’s workforce can lower business costs and improve worker productivity, thus ensuring the ongoing success of Colorado’s businesses; and
WHERAS, preventing work related injuries, illnesses and fatalities will reduce the financial, physical and emotional hardships currently impacting workers and their families;
Therefore, <I or WE>, <INSERT NAME of INDIVIDUAL or COMPANY> along with the employer, employee, and trade union members of WorkSafe Colorado proclaim that,
We are committed to protecting and preserving the health, wellness, and safety of Colorado workers and will be proactive in efforts to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses; and
We will foster and support WorkSafe Colorado members to:
• Collaborate among businesses, workers and trade unions to promote and implement “best practices” that underlie healthy and safe workplaces; and
• Increase our knowledge of workplace health and safety issues; and
• Share our “lessons learned” with others in order to make Colorado workers the safest and healthiest in the country.
(1) Statistic cited by the Colorado State Office of Economic Development. Available online 02/20/13: http://www.advancecolorado.com/business-colorado/workforce
(2) Occupational Health Indicators in Colorado, 2012 Update. Accessible online 02/20/13: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-DCEED/CBON/1251610614250