This week has been declared North American Occupational Safety and Health Week throughout the country, including Mexico and the United States.

Saskatchewan chosen to host the National Launch of the week for the first time, with the goal aimed to make safety a habit in the workplace and at home.

"Saskatchewan still carries the dubious distinction of being the 2nd highest injury rate jurisdiction in Canada, and we've been working with our worksafe partner, WCB, to focus on our Mission Zero. Mission Zero means zero injuries, zero pain, zero suffering, zero fatalities," said Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, Michael Carr. "When you think about Mission Zero, last year in 2014, 87 per cent of Saskatchewan workplaces were injury free in that year, and so we think that the message is starting to take hold and that people are starting to own their safety, but we still have 13 per cent of Saskatchewan workplaces that suffered significant injury in their workforce."

Carr says the goal is to completely eradicate work related illness and injury from our workplaces, but the province is on the right path.