Safeworks was located at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre, which operated for several months, as a temporary facility, became fully operational starting April 30, 2018 with services available 24 hours, 7 days a week. From the day it initially launched in October 30, 2017 to March 31, 2019, 71,096 people had used its services The staff "responded to a total of 954 overdoses." In one month alone, "848 unique individuals" made 5,613 visits to the SCS. Its program is monitored by the Province of Albert in partnership with the Institute of Health Economics.