The Health & Safety Society (HSS) of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) connects safety practitioners, operational leaders, and organizational strategists to reduce serious harm and fatalities in the mining sector.

HSS facilitates the exchange of technical knowledge and leadership strategies across six primary pillars:

• Occupational Health and Safety (OHS): Improving technical standards and workplace compliance
• Fatality and Serious Injury Prevention (SIF): Implementing critical control management
• Safety Leadership: Shaping organizational culture and governance
• ESG Integration: Analyzing ESG frameworks and their impact on global mining regulations
• Psychological Health: Advancing mental health and psychological safety frameworks.
• Risk Management: Enhancing risk awareness and incident learning

What does HSS do?

HSS delivers conferences, webinars and panels designed to share and capture community input that directly informs our initiatives. Join us for:

• The HSS Conference serves as our primary in-person forum for leadership and prevention discussions. Our most recent event, the ISSA Mining Safety Conference, took place in September 2026 in Saskatchewan.
• Safety Share webinar series: Held in partnership with CIM Magazine, these sessions tackle leadership, critical controls, and learning from incidents.
• Student outreach: Dedicated frameworks to bridge the gap between academia and the mining industry, specifically targeting students who might not otherwise consider mining careers

Education & Industry Engagement

• Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention initiative: An open-access resource focused on critical controls and serious harm prevention
• Mental health & wellness: Developing accessible resources and working groups dedicated to psychological safety
• Leading practices: Curating and sharing tools that support the broad adoption of safety innovation across the industry
• Student sponsorship and outreach: A new framework for the 2026 ISSA Mining Safety Conference led by our Student Director to cover travel and registration costs for students in HR, health, and safety.
• Rapid community growth: Scaling from a committee of 10 to a dynamic society of over 400 members committed to people-first safety
• Knowledge leadership: Investing in monthly and bi-monthly "Safety Share" webinars that cover leadership, mental health, and learning from incidents.