New Brunswick HSE Consultant & WorkSafeNB Advisor

WorkSafeNB's experience rating program compares your firm's claims history to the industry average over a three-year rolling period. Employers with better-than-average safety performance receive a premium reduction — refunds can reach 30% of base assessments for high-performing firms. Conversely, employers with worse-than-average records pay surcharges. Our WorkSafeNB compliance work focuses on reducing time-loss injury frequency and duration, improving claims management, and documenting proactive safety initiatives that WorkSafeNB recognizes in the rating calculation. Most New Brunswick clients begin seeing measurable premium movement within the first full assessment year after implementing a structured safety management system.

New Brunswick forestry and logging operations are governed by the Occupational Health and Safety Act and General Regulation 91-191, with WorkSafeNB enforcing sector-specific requirements for mechanized harvesting, manual felling, skidding, and log transport. Key obligations include written safe work procedures for chainsaw operation and mechanical harvesting, daily equipment pre-use inspections, first aid coverage scaled to crew size and distance from medical facilities, personal protective equipment standards (chainsaw chaps, cut-resistant boots, hard hats, high-visibility vests), and a documented emergency response plan for remote operations. Logging consistently records New Brunswick's highest workplace fatality rate — WorkSafeNB inspects forestry operations actively throughout harvest season. We build safety programs that satisfy WorkSafeNB requirements while accounting for the practical realities of remote harvest sites, contractor crews, and year-round operations.

Irving Industries — including Irving Oil, J.D. Irving, and affiliated companies — is New Brunswick's largest private employer and applies contractor HSE prequalification standards that go beyond the minimum requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and WorkSafeNB enforcement. Irving contractor requirements typically include ISNetworld or Avetta prequalification, documented safety management systems, defined incident frequency benchmarks, current COR certification or a recognized equivalent, and in some cases client-specific training or orientation programs. WorkSafeNB compliance is a necessary floor — Irving's contractor standards are the ceiling you must reach to access work on Irving sites. We help New Brunswick contractors build safety programs that satisfy both WorkSafeNB's legislative requirements and the prequalification criteria used by Irving and other major NB industrial clients.