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Occupational health & safety magazine |
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Contains articles, events and resources aimed at preventing workplace injuries and illnesses in Alberta. Offers current and back issues. |
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Source: Alberta Employment, Immigration and Industry |
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Material safety data sheets (MSDSs) - general |
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Answers questions on Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), documents that provide information on the hazards of chemical products found in the workplace and how to work safely with them. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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WHMIS: general information |
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Answers questions on Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), why it was created, how it developed, duties it specifies for employers and workers, and how it is enforced. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Health & safety programs |
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Offers a series of information to help employers, employees, and health and safety committees develop health and safety programs such as emergency planning, accident investigation, and inspection checklists. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Legislation |
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Offers occupational health and safety regulatory information from Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions. Covers duties and responsibilities of employers, supervisors, and workers; work refusals; and due diligence. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Accident prevention magazine |
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Offers occupational health and safety information from an industry perspective. Published bi-monthly. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) |
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Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta |
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Provides workers' compensation services to the workers and employers of Alberta. Promotes accident and injury prevention and provides rehabilitation and disability management services. Web site includes publications, course information, news and events. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta |
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Heads up. Work smart. Work safe booklets |
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Describes a safety awareness campaign aimed at young workers and their employers. Includes resources on health and safety responsibility, injury statistics, questions for young workers to ask about workplace safety, and information for employers. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta |
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Back to basics booklet |
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Explains how the backs works, causes of back pain, and shows how to prevent injury and maintain good back health. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta |
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WorkSafeBC |
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Promotes workplace health and safety for the workers and employers of British Columbia. Regulates and monitors workplaces, educates and consults with employers and workers, and provides compensation. Web site includes publications, courses, news and events. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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WorkSafeBC publications |
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Lists health and safety related resources including reports, newsletters, policy manuals, statistics, guides for workers and employers working with the WCB, appeal decisions, and includes ordering information. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Working safely with OPs (organo-phosphate insecticides) |
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Explains what employers, supervisors, and workers must do to work safely with organo-phosphate insecticides (commonly called OPs). Explains how OPs affect health, symptoms of OP poisoning, first aid, and the use of proper personal protective equipment. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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A hantavirus risk control program for employers and workers |
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Contains guidelines for employers to prevent hantavirus infections and to implement a risk control program to minimize potential worker exposure to hantavirus. Includes recommended work procedures. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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WorkSafe magazine |
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Informs workers and employers of occupational health and safety issues. Published six times a year. Includes current and past issues. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Back talk: an owner's manual for backs |
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Explains how the back works, provides tips for avoiding injury, and shows how to care for the back during recovery. Discusses proper body mechanics to reduce the risk of injury. Covers muscle strains, disc injuries, posture, safe bending and carrying, exercise and tips for a healthy back. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis B and C: preventing exposure at work |
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Recommends workplace precautions to prevent exposure to bloodborne diseases. Focuses on employers and workers who are not expected to come in contact with blood and body fluids at work. Covers HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C; how to reduce risk of infection; and safe work practices. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Young worker |
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Offers publications, tools, statistics, news releases, courses, and young worker industry profiles to help workers, employers, unions, educators, parents and youth community groups prevent young worker injuries and illnesses. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Workers' Compensation Board, Northwest Territories and Nunavut |
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Promotes workplace health and safety to workers and employers of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Promotes accident prevention, provides compensation, monitors and inspects workplaces, and delivers training. Web site includes information on legislation, programs, courses, publications and events. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board, Northwest Territories and Nunavut |
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Yukon Workers' Compensation, Health and Safety Board |
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Provides workers' compensation services to the workers and employers of the Yukon Territories. Regulates and monitors workplaces and promotes accident and injury prevention. Web site includes publications for employers and workers, safety bulletins, and policies. |
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Source: Yukon Workers' Compensation, Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB) |
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Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of New Brunswick |
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Promotes a safe and healthy work environment. Provides prevention, assessment, compensation, and rehabilitiation services to workplaces, employers, and injured workers in New Brunswick. Web site includes news and events, legislation, research initiatives, programs and services, and publications.
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Source: Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of New Brunswick (WHSCC) |
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Safety at work |
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Provides injury prevention information for workers and employers in various industries such as construction and health care. Includes safety bulletins, and health and safety information on topics such first aid and ergonomics. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Workers' Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island |
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Provides workers' compensation services to the workers and employers of Prince Edward Island. Advocates safe and healthy workplaces and standards to promote health and safety in the workplace. Web site includes news, legislation, publications, and course and event information. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island |
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WorkSafe best practices booklets |
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Profiles Alberta companies who have developed and implemented effective health and safety programs and highlights best practices, provides tips, and contact information. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta |
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety |
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Promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing information and advice to all parties about occupational health and safety. Offers Inquiries Service to Canadians on specific health and safety issues in the workplace. Provides access to a wide range of publications, databases and information products. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Web information service |
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Offers fee-for-service subscriptions to online databases of health, safety, and environmental information. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Fatigue |
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Describes the health and safety risks of fatigue and sleep deprivation, particularly for shift workers. Outlines factors in the work environment that can increase drowsiness and offers tips for fighting fatigue. |
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Source: Canada Safety Council |
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Industrial Accident Prevention Association |
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Offers educational services, training, and consulting to help Ontario companies create safe, healthy, and productive workplaces. Web site includes information on the association's products, services, and training courses. |
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Source: Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) |
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Protocol for protecting emergency responders from communicable disease |
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Provides paramedics, fire fighters, and police and others involved in emergency situations with a standard procedure on how to deal with exposure to blood and airborne infectious agents such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, TB, and meningococcal bacteria. |
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Source: British Columbia Ministry of Health Planning |
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Understanding the risks of musculoskeletal injury (MSI): an educational guide for workers on sprains, strains and other MSIs |
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Provides information on musculoskeletal injury (MSI) to help workers, employers, and health and safety committees recognize signs and symptoms, potential health effects and treatment. Identifies high risk jobs, and risk factors such as force, repetition, and posture. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Saskatchewan Labour |
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Administers all labour legislation for the province of Saskatchewan. Provides labour relations services, promotes and enforces labour standards, protects employee health and safety at work, and offers assistance with workers' compensation claims. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Managing shiftwork |
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Discusses the hazards of shiftwork to help employers, health and safety committees, and workers identify and control the risks to health and social well-being. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Setting up an occupational health and safety program: a guide |
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Outlines how to write and develop an occupational health and safety program which covers the identification and control of hazards, and emergency response. Includes a discussion of related issues such as return to work programs. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Worksafe Saskatchewan |
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Lists occupational health and safety resources designed to help Saskatchewan workers and employers prevent injuries and illnesses. Web site includes resources on specific hazards, duties, legislation, stress, WHMIS, and industry specific issues. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Canadian Labour and Business Centre |
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Offers a national forum for discussion and research on labour market and skills issues, with participants from labour, business, government, and education. Aims to improve business and labour practices in Canada and to provide public policy advice. Website includes publications, news updates, and event information. |
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Source: Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) |
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Viewpoints 2000: the healthy workplace |
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Reports on the results of the Canadian Labour and Business Centre Leadership Survey, which included questions related to the healthy workplace. Discusses the key indicators of a healthy workplace, trends, changes in workplace health and safety, and how to reduce health hazards at work. |
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Source: Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) |
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Safe work newsletters |
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Offers current and back issues of a quarterly newsletter which features articles addressing health and safety issues and legal concerns. |
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Source: Manitoba Labour and Immigration, Workplace Safety and Health Division |
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Keeping safe at work: tips for working alone |
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Provides tips for personal safety when working alone and when traveling to work. Outlines what employers can do to ensure worker safety, what workers should do should they encounter robbery or other property crime, and what workers can do keep themselves safe. |
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Source: Manitoba's Women's Directorate |
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Business results through health & safety |
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Illustrates relationship between employee health and safety and improved business operations and profits. Provides information to help organizations develop business cases through assessment of their health and safety systems and outlines steps to improve health and safety for reduced costs and enhanced business results.
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Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) |
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The unhealthy Canadian workplace |
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Provides an overview of working conditions in Canada and discusses the direction of current trends. Examines dimensions of job quality such as job security, physical conditions of work, work pace and control, stress, work-life balance, and social relations and participation at work. Compares Canada with the European Union. |
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Source: Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) |
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Newsletters |
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Contains information about the activities of "Threads of Life", a support for families and friends of workers who have died in workplace accidents. Issues contain personal stories, information about their partner organizations and workplace safety, book reviews, and events. |
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Source: Threads of Life |
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Twelve case studies on innovative workplace health initiatives: summary of key conclusions |
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Reports on healthy workplace programs in twelve Canadian companies. Each examines issues of occupational health and safety, support of healthy lifestyles, and organizational change. |
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Source: Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) |
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Safe work is good for business |
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Presents best practices from Manitoba employers for developing a safety culture in the workplace. Focuses on areas of senior leadership, communications, education and training, formal health and safety committees, monitoring of internal incidents, risk control, disability management, and return to work planning. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of Manitoba |
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Canadian Labour Congress |
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Works to support decent wages and working conditions, and improved health and safety laws in Canadian workplaces. |
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Source: Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) |
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Safe work practices for handling asbestos |
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Provides information about asbestos and health hazards. Outlines employer's responsibilities and safe work procedures and describes appropriate personal protective equipment, and how to prepare for, and respond to, emergencies. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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The Voice on young worker safety |
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Reports on student-led discussions about the attitudes and opinions of youth toward young worker health and safety in British Columbia. Discusses challenges the role of stakeholders in increasing young worker safety on the job.
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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JobSafeCanada.ca |
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Provides new and young worker information to Canadian youth, parents, employers, and teachers. Covers employee rights and responsibilities, hazards by type of job and preventive measures, questions to ask in a new job, where to go for more information, and real stories. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Securing a safe and healthy future: the road to injury prevention for Ontario's young workers |
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Reports young worker injury statistics, how they vary among provinces, determinants of youth injury, and preventive initiatives. |
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Source: Institute for Work and Health (IWH) |
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Information for volunteers |
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Provides health and safety information for volunteers, particularly teen volunteers. Outlines twelve rules to follow to ensure safety. |
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Source: Ontario Ministry of Labour |
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Parents |
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Provides workplace health and safety information for parents of teenage volunteers. Explains risks to teens, minimum age levels for particular jobs, how to help select a safe volunteer assignment, and how to make sure teen is safe on assignment. |
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Source: Ontario Ministry of Labour |
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A guide for sponsoring organizations: how to provide young volunteers with a healthy and safe working environment |
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Explains how organizations can address health and safety issues for teen volunteers. Explains how to set up a training program for teen volunteers. |
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Source: Ontario Ministry of Labour |
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Success factors for occupational health and safety training: a review of the literature |
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Reviews the published literature which evaluates the effectiveness of occupational health and safety training. Discusses strategies such as mandatory participation, supervisor training, workplace support of safety practices, relevance and content of training, and training format. |
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Source: Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia (OHSAH) |
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Musculoskeletal injury prevention program (MSIPP): implementation guide |
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Offers information on how to develop or improve musculoskeletal injury prevention programs (MSIP). Covers MSIP policy development, risk identification and assessment, risk control, education, training, return to work programs and accommodations, post-incident procedures, and program evaluation. |
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Source: Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia (OHSAH) |
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Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada |
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Works with member organizations to facilitate the exchange of information, achieve excellence in programs and services, and to support safe workplaces, healthy workers, and a fair, affordable workers' compensation insurance system. Website includes research inventory, events, and members forum. |
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Source: Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) |
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Shift work |
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Discusses the effects of shift work and offers tips to shift workers to improve sleep, eating habits, and maintain family and social lives. |
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Source: City of Ottawa |
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Research eNetwork |
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Offers a moderated, online email discussion service to send and receive information regarding the latest activities and findings in workplace health, safety and compensation research. For employers, workers, research experts, health and safety professionals, and other interested individuals and groups throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Source: Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador (WHSCC) |
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Focus on facts newsletter |
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Offers current and back issues of a newsletter published three times each year. Discusses workplace health and safety topics and includes related factsheets.
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Source: MFL Occupational Health Centre, Inc. |
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Improving work organization to reduce injury and illness: social services, stress, violence and workload |
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Discusses factors which contribute to injuries, stress, and health problems for social service workers. Reports on the rates of overwork, burnout, exposure to violence, and bullying in the workplace and recommends methods to improve health and safety. |
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Source: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences |
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Injured at work? We're here to help: a guide to the Workplace Safety and Insurance System |
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Explains how the WSIB helps Ontario workers return to work following a work-related injury, and outlines key benefits and services available through Ontario's workplace safety and insurance system. |
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Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) |
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A guide to setting up a workplace safety and health program |
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Outlines how to implement a workplace safety and health program. Addresses program and policy development, hazard and emergency control, assignment of responsibilities, inspections, training and involvement of workers and supervisors, and accident investigation. |
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Source: Manitoba Labour and Immigration, Workplace Safety and Health Division |
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Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health |
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Promotes and conducts research on workplace health, safety, and well being in Canada. Advocates for research that enhances understanding of how work and work environments may be modified to improve health. Web site includes conferences, membership, news, research, and training. |
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Source: Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health |
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IPCS INCHEM: Chemical safety information from intergovernmental organizations |
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Provides access to peer-reviewed information about chemicals commonly used throughout the world, including chemicals which may occur as contaminants in the environment and food. Sponsored by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Program, and the International Labour Organization. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety |
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Resources - young workers |
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Provides young workers, and employers with workplace safety training tools, publications, videos, and other resources designed to help prevent youth injuries and illnesses. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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Workers Health & Safety Centre |
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Aims to eliminate occupational injury, illness, and death through training and information. Website includes publications on workplace health and safety topics, training schedules, and information on certification programs. |
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Source: Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) |
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Pregnant and working? Keep your workplace safe for you and your baby |
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Offers tips for identifying and reducing workplace health and safety risks during pregnancy. Discusses risks such as chemicals and hazardous substances, infectious diseases, radiation, standing and sitting, lifting, shift work, noise levels, stress, and pregnancy discrimination. |
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Source: Capital Health |
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How to be a pregnancy friendly workplace: policies and practices that make a difference |
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Discusses the benefits of a pregnancy friendly workplace; discrimination and the rights of pregnant workers; reproductive health risks in the workplace and how to reduce them; and, offers examples of pregnancy friendly eduction, policies and practices. |
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Source: Best Start |
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Informal safety program for small business |
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Describes the key elements of an informal health and safety program for small business. |
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Source: Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB) |
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The changing organization of work and the safety and health of working people: knowledge gaps and research directions |
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Outlines a research agenda for investigating and reducing occupational safety and health risks associated with changes in how work is organized. Examines surveilance mechanisms, health and safety implications, and protective interventions. |
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
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Workplace health FAQs |
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Offers a list of FAQs on various workplace health topics including ergonomics, health and safety hazards, healthy living and wellness at work, workers’ rights and responsibilities, workplace conditions, and young workers. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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Health and safety report newsletter |
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Monthly e-newsletter contains articles, events and resources with information that supports responsible decision-making and promotes safe and healthy workplaces. Offers current and back issues. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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WCB Insight Online |
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Newsletter published three times a year by the Workers’ Compensation Board - Alberta. Distributed to employers, labour organizations, employer and safety associations, and injured worker groups. Includes current and previous issues. |
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Source: Workers’ Compensation Board - Alberta |
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Accident prevention e-newsletter |
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Offers occupational health and safety news, updates on products, services and events, prosecutions, alerts, and information on new resources. |
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Source: Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) |
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21st century job quality trends |
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This report uses the best available evidence to assess job quality in Canada in the 21st century.
It focuses on two basic questions:
1) Has economic prosperity resulted in improvements in job
quality? and
2) Can improvements in job quality contribute to sustainable economic prosperity and
Canadians’ overall quality of life? |
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Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks |
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Staying on the job - aging workers are changing the workplace |
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Examines common, negative misconceptions such as failing physical abilities, declining productivity levels, increasing injury rates, and the inability to learn new skills. Promotes the value of older workers. Suggests ways the workplace can make minor accommodations for the benefit of both employer and employee. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network |
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