Long-time health and safety leader Jody Young to take over role in June
Workplace Safety & Prevention Services will have a new president and CEO, with Jody Young set to take on the role.
“The WSPS team looks forward to helping keep Ontario workers safe under Jody’s leadership,” reads a statement on the WSPS website.
Young has more than 30 years of experience as a health and safety leader in the both the private and public sectors.
She spent more than 20 of those years with the province of Ontario. For the past two years Young has served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Operation Division, with Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development.
Young also worked in a similar role for the province of Alberta.
While most of Young’s experience is in the public sector, her LinkedIn profile also shows she spent early parts of her career as a corporate health and safety manager with Washington Mills, and then with Walker Industries Holdings Limited.
Her profile says her role with Walker Industries was to manage the corporate health and safety program “for a diverse corporate group including, quarrying operations, asphalt plants, emulsion manufacturing, paint manufacturing, landfill operations, waste transportation and construction and development operations.”
Young is a Canadian Registered Safety Professional and completed her Honours Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Toronto.
Young will take over beginning June 12.
