SK DOCTORS OF OPTOMETRY
Occupational Vision Care Program
LET US PROTECT YOUR SIGHT
Each year the Saskatchewan
Workers’ Compensation Board
receives more than 3,500 reports
of eye injuries. The Saskatchewan
Association of Optometrists’
Occupational Vision Care program
goal is to eliminate these injuries.
The Occupational Vision Care
program ensures:
• quality safety eyewear for
every employee
• Industry Safety Standard
approved products
• cost effectiveness for
companies and employees
• experienced eye health
professionals
• ease of administration
ovc@saosk.ca
saoovc@optometrists.sk.ca
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and a strong supervisory presence on
every project.
The company strives to eliminate in-cidents
and accidents at all of its worksites,
and an important aspect of that is careful
planning. At the start of any project, Points
Athabasca employees and managers com-plete
risk assessment activities to ensure
risks are identified and minimized before
proceeding with any work.
Scarfe says Points Athabasca joined
the Saskatchewan Heavy Construction
Association (SHCA) more than a dozen
years ago in order to keep abreast of every-thing
going on Saskatchewan’s construc-tion
industry and also as way to network
with other contractors in the province.
Planning for the future
Scarfe says that the company has had to do
some major belt-tightening lately due to
dropping uranium prices.
Points Athabasca currently employs
about 100 people, he says, which is down
from the company’s peak in 2014. Scarfe
adds that projected revenues for 2018 will
likely be less than what they were last year.
As a result, Scarfe said, Points Athabasca
is sharpening its focus “by refining our skills
within our company and getting even better
at what we do.”
Points Athabasca is also looking to di-versify
its market base and expand be-yond
Saskatchewan into Alberta and
Manitoba. The goal is to forge many new
partnerships with clients to design, build,
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