Occupational Health, Safety and Prevention Innovation Program: Call for Proposals

The Ministry of Labour is pleased to announce the 2017-18 call for proposals for its Occupational Health, Safety and Prevention Innovation Program (OHSPIP).

OHSPIP’s objective is to support workplace-focused innovation projects and collaborative partnerships that lead to improvements in occupational health and safety in Ontario.

Program overview

Please note that this information is provided as an overview only; interested applicants should review the OHSPIP Guidelines for more information.

Project duration: up to 24 months
Funding available: maximum $100,000 annually, up to $200,000 per proposal (non-renewable). OHSPIP awards are one-time, non-renewable grants.

Program documents

• OHSPIP Guidelines
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Application Form

Program priorities

The 2017-18 OHSPIP will support initiatives that align with the following priorities:

Priority 1: Supporting workplace mental health

Promoting good psychological health and safety in the workplace – increasing employers’ capacity to promote workers’ psychological well-being and prevent harm to their psychological health.

Focus Areas:

• Training and education for occupations (e.g. first responders) where on-the-job traumatic mental stress/post-traumatic stress disorder can be prevalent.
• Development of programs or services to support workers dealing with mental health issues.

Priority 2: Mobile equipment hazards

Creating solutions that address the risks of working around vehicles and large pieces of mobile equipment, with a particular focus on reducing incidences of workers struck by tools, vehicles, equipment, falling/flying debris, or by any other object that could cause workplace injuries or fatalities.

Focus Areas:

• Training, raising awareness, and promoting best practices as they relate to:
  • Driver fitness (e.g. drug impairment, driver fatigue, driver stress)
  • Safety-related attitudes and behaviour (e.g. complacency, failure to properly signal)
  • Driver competency (e.g. road safety training, driving experience)
  • Vehicle factors (e.g. poor vehicle maintenance, automated vehicles)

Priority 3: Occupational disease

Addressing hazardous workplace exposures that result in occupational illnesses and fatalities.

Focus Areas:

• Training and education, raising awareness, and promoting best practices as they relate to hazardous workplace exposures, specifically focusing on:
  • Diesel engine exhaust
  • Emerging exposures (e.g. nanotechnology)
  • Lung and skin allergens or irritants
  • Noise
• The surveillance of occupational disease and hazardous exposures in Ontario workplaces.
• The measurement and collection of hazardous exposure data from workplaces.

Priority 4: Secondary injury prevention

Reducing the impact of a workplace injury after it has occurred, preventing recurrences, and protecting workers from longer-term work-related disabilities.

Focus Areas:

• Development of tools and strategies to help injured workers avoid re-injury.
• Development of programs and supports to assist injured workers in returning to full health

Post-Ph.D. Research Grants

Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.

Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film

Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships in Ethnographic Film support the completion of ethnographic film/s based on anthropological research already accomplished by the applicant. Fellowships are awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop their research in the form of ethnographic film. Scholars who have received a Ph.D. or equivalent within ten years of the application deadline are eligible to apply. A maximum of four full Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually.

Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships

Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships support the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop their research for publication.  Scholars with a Ph.D. in hand for no more than ten years (from the application deadline) are eligible to apply. A maximum of eight Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually.

A limited number of Travel Awards to PhD or MD/PhD students, and post-doctoral/medical/clinical fellows are available. The purpose of this program is to defray the travel costs associated with making a scientific presentation as a first author or presenter at a conference, symposium or other appropriate professional meeting.

Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant may often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects potentially eligible for funding through other SSHRC funding opportunities.

Connection Grants proposals are expected to meet the objectives of the Connection program.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the humanities and social sciences;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the humanities and social sciences and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

Canadian Blood Services is pleased to announce its 2017 Transfusion Medicine Research Program Support Award competition. The objective of the Transfusion Medicine Research Program Support Award is to promote national excellence in transfusion science and medicine in service of Canadian patients.

For detailed information about the competition, please refer to www.blood.ca. The deadline is March 5 2017 to submit a registration form as an indication of your intent to submit an application. Applications will be due April 15 2017.

Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is issuing a Call for Proposals (CFP) on behalf of Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - an agency of Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) that provides DND, the Canadian Armed Forces, and other government departments as well as the public safety and security communities, the knowledge and technological advantage needed to defend and protect Canada’s interests at home and abroad.
The CFP is an invitation to bidders to submit innovative science and technology (S&T) proposals in support of Canada’s defence, security and public safety.
More specifically, this CFP identifies S&T Challenges (see Annex B) that relate to the following DRDC programs and for which innovative solutions are sought:
• All-Domain Situational Awareness (ADSA) Program — a five-year initiative to conduct research and analysis to support the development of options for enhanced domain awareness of air, surface and sub-surface approaches to Canada, and in particular those in the Arctic. The ADSA Program focuses on the following areas:
o Strategic surveillance of airborne traffic and aerospace warning;
o Awareness of maritime traffic in Canadian approaches and Arctic littoral regions;
o Awareness of sub-surface activity approaching or in Canada’s North; and
o Analysis of sensor mixes and information integration and sharing for all domain awareness to enable detection of modern threats beyond the threshold of the current systems.
• Canadian Safety and Security Program (CSSP) — a whole-of-government initiative that enhances Canada's security and public safety through S&T investments. The CSSP strengthens Canada’s ability to anticipate, prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters, serious accidents, crime and terrorism through the convergence of S&T with policy, operations and intelligence.

Full call document (including Annex B)

Questions Related to call

Summary of feedback document

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is pleased to partner with Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) in the TargetGHG Collaborative R&D Program. This joint initiative aims to enable technology development between postsecondary institutions and industry partners for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It will support Ontario’s 2020-2030 targets and the Government of Canada’s commitment to developing innovative clean technologies that promote environmental sustainability. This program provides a maximum 1:2 leverage on industry partners’ cash and in-kind contributions.

Consult OCE’s TargetGHG Collaborative R&D Program website for further information about the application requirements and process.

The deadline for submitting an Expression of Interest for this program is February 28, 2017.

I’m reaching out to gauge your interest in submitting an application to the Everglades Foundation’s George Barley Water Prize. The $10 million Prize seeks a variety of globally adaptable, green and cost-effective processes and technologies to remove phosphorus from freshwater bodies. 

Applications are now being accepted for Stage 1 until the January 13, 2017 deadline. Although the Prize closes in 2020 and the $10M will not be awarded until then, $25,000 will be awarded to the winner of Stage 1 in early 2017. More information about the Prize (and specifically Stage 1) can be found here and the entry instructions + judging criteria are attached to this email. 

I would be happy to arrange a call to discuss further and answer any questions you may have. 

Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon. 

Sincerely,

Ernie 

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