Sidney Chelsky
• Executive Director of Canadian Fabricare Association (formerly Ontario Fabricare Association)
• President, Careful Consulting Service (consultant to laundry, cleaning, and hospitality industry) 1997- 2012
• President of Careful Hand Laundry & Dry Cleaners Limited (Employed up to seventy persons as well as acquired five laundry and dry cleaning operations and merged into Careful) 1971 - 1997
• Past Chairman of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Toronto 1999 - 2000
• Recipient of the P4 Pollution Prevention Award by the Province of Ontario
• Recipient of Certificate on Environmental Work Management, Reduction of Chemical Emissions by MOE
• Past President of Eastern Canadian Launderers & Dry Cleaners Association 1996-1998
• Recipient of J. E. Adamson Award by ECLDA as industry Person of Year 1995
• Recipient of Mike and Muriel Harris Award by ECLDA for lasting dedication to the dry cleaning and laundry industry 1994
• Recipient of Life Membership to the DCLI (Ont.) for contribution to cleaning industry
• Past President of the Dry Cleaners & Launderers Institute of Ontario
• Past Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Ontario Fabricare Association
• Past President of Textile & Allied Trades Association of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association of Ontario 1983-1984
• Past Member of the Province of Ontario Task Force on Hazardous Chemicals
• Member of Roundtable by Technical Standards Safety Association (TSSA) regarding boiler and pressure vessels on behalf of Government of Ontario
• Member of Chemtrac Committee (set up by Department of Health of the City of Toronto)
• Served as judge on jury panel for Global Best Practices Awards in Milan, Italy 2018
• Serving as judge on jury panel for Global Best Practices Awards in Frankfurt, Germany June 20, 2020
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