June
is...
June 2nd : Clean Air Day
Click here to read the Air Quality &
Outdoor Workers Fact Sheet...
June 6th: National
Cancer Survivors Day
June 10th: National
Memory Screening Day
June
6th - 12th : National Sun Safety Week
Click here to read the Hazards of
Working in the Sun Fact Sheet...
National Safety
Awareness Month
Click here to read the Slips, Trips &
Falls Fact Sheet...
Click here to read the Shiftwork Fact
Sheet...
Brain
Injury Awareness Month
Stroke
Awareness Month
Summer
Toolbox
Working in Confined Spaces
Confined space is one of the most common
workplace hazards facing the industry.
A great number of workers succumbed to
the injuries and fatalities while
working in the confined space. MOL
already has a regulation addressing the
health and safety of workers working in
the confined space but there are other
standards also available such as CSA for
added safety of workers. CSA has
introduced a new standard on confined
space which complements MOL regulation
on confined space and explains in detail
how to recognize a confined space,
identify hazards, assessing risk, and
managing risk and exit. Details of
these new confined space standards are
not posted on CSA's website as of yet
but further information can be attained
by exploring this link:
http://ohs.csa.ca/standards/management_systems/Confined_Management/Z1006.asp
Bill 168 — Workplace Violence
Presentations
On April 20, 2009: the government
introduced Bill 168 entitled the
Occupational Health and Safety Amendment
Act (Violence and Harassment in the
Workplace), 2009 in the Legislature
today.
The Workers Health & Safety Centre is
offering free seminar's on Bill 168 -
Workplace Violence through out the
province of Ontario, including Dryden,
Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sudbury and
Sault Ste. Marie.
Please click on the following link this
will take you directly to the Workers
Health & Safety Centre's website and
registration page for these seminars.
www.whsc.on.ca/bill168
NEW - Laws & Announcements
Amendments to the
Needle Safety Regulation (Phase 3)
On July 1, 2010 the Needle Safety
Regulation will be extended to community
work environments Including doctors' and
dentists' offices, community health
centres, family health teams and
independent health facilities.
Amendments to the
OHSA to include workplace violence
June 15, 2010: Bill 168 received
Royal Assent on December 15, 2009. This
means that the proposed
amendments to the Occupational Health
and Safety Act to include violence and
harassment in the workplace will come
into force on June 15, 2010.
Firefighters
To Receive Fire-Related Illness Coverage
Ontario is making it easier for the
province's volunteer and part-time
firefighters and fire investigators, who
suffer fire-related illnesses, to
qualify for benefits under the Workplace
Safety and Insurance Act.
The province
has established a new regulation which
presumes that eight types of cancer - as
well as heart injuries within 24 hours
of fighting a fire or a training
exercise - that are suffered by these
workers would be work-related, unless
proven otherwise. The same presumptions
currently apply to full-time
firefighters in Ontario.
The
regulation will apply to volunteer and
part-time firefighters and fire
investigators from the Office of the
Ontario Fire Marshal who meet certain
conditions and to diseases diagnosed or
heart injuries sustained on or after
Jan. 1, 1960. (For more information
please visit
http://news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2009/11/firefighters-to-receive-fire-related-illness-coverage.html)
Prevention of Injuries -
Laurentian University
Success!!
One of OHCOW’s main goals is the
prevention
of
injuries. To learn more about
what Laurentian University has done to
prevent injuries from occurring in their
office environment click the link below.
Click here to read more...
OHCOW Booth
To learn more about how you can have the
OHCOW booth at your worksite or event click the
link below.
Click
here to learn more...
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