IHSA Membership

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Ivano Labricciosa Management Co-Chair

Ivano Labricciosa is the President & CEO of Oshawa Power & Utilities Corporation (Oshawa Power), a regulated Electric Utility Distribution Company in Oshawa, Ontario. His Utility experience spans 40 years. Ivano has leveraged his leadership skills and his change management experiences to effect sustained business performance improvements throughout the utility organization.

As CEO of Oshawa Power, Ivano plays a pivotal role in the overall strategic planning of the company and its subsidiaries involved in energy distribution, energy generation, and telecom ventures.

Ivano holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree from Western University, a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Business Administration from Queen's University.

Ivano has served as a Board member with the Electricity Distributors Association, the Canadian Solar Industry Association and the Municipal Electric Association Reciprocal Insurance Exchange. He has also served as an Advisory Board member with the University of Toronto Engineering Faculty, Ryerson University Centre for Urban Energy, Canadian Electric Association Distribution Council, the Georgian College Engineering Technology Program. He is currently active with the Distribution Council of the Canadian Electricity Association and is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Within the community, Ivano volunteers his time serving on the Board of Parkwood Estates National Historic Site, the Greater Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, and the Oshawa Downtown Business Improvement Association. He actively participates in events at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College, attending events and speaking or judging events when called upon.

In 2016, OPUC was in need of someone with a new vision-- someone with knowledge of asset management and entrepreneurial thinking regarding new technology projects. Ivano was hired. Ivano expresses his view of OPUC's successes under his leadership: "Our innovation and creativity is making something work, our expertise is putting our shoulder into things and doing the applied science. Not inventing technologies but making something better."

Glen Drewes Labour Co-Chair

Glen Drewes has been a member of the Board of the Directors of the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA) since 2017. He is also President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Construction Council of Ontario, and the Business Manager and Financial Secretary for IBEW Local 402.

Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he still lives today, Glen has been a licensed construction and maintenance electrician for more than 30 years. He got involved with workplace health and safety early in his career—after witnessing a fatality on his very first job in construction.

Since then, he has continuously strived to expand his understanding of health and safety, working with others to reduce risks on construction projects. In 2006, along with his colleagues on the Occupational Disease and Research Labour-Management Health and Safety Committee, Glen received the Gil Samson Award for outstanding contributions towards accident prevention by a Labour-Management Health and Safety Committee.

Glen began representing electrical construction workers on the Provincial Labour-Management Health and Safety Committee – Construction in 2008. He was elected the committee’s Labour Co-Chair in 2014, and continues to serve in that role.

Board of Directors

IHSA's Board of Directors represents the industries we serve as follows:

Labour-Management Network

IHSA works closely with its industry partners and labour associations through its Labour-Management network, its industry-based Advisory Councils and its two Provincial Labour-Management Safety Committees and Section 21 Committees (construction and electrical respectively).