Staying Informed
We keep our readers informed about what is happening in the field of workplace health and safety in Ontario and beyond. Stay up to date on occupational health news by checking in on OHCOW's news hub!
We keep our readers informed about what is happening in the field of workplace health and safety in Ontario and beyond. Stay up to date on occupational health news by checking in on OHCOW's news hub!
On the 40th Anniversary of Workers Memorial Day, June 20, a new memorial garden and plaque is unveiled in Sudbury.
On June 7, the Sudbury Clinic celebrated a new location and OHCOW’s thirty-fifth anniversary with an Open House event.
Efforts are being made to make June 1 officially recognized as Ontario’s Injured Workers Day.
2024 A paper co-authored by OHCOW hygienists and researchers is among the top ten downloaded in the medical journal that published it.
The Occupational Cancer Research Centre released a report on findings from the Firefighter Cancer Research Priorities Workshop.
JANUARY 2024 is Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month, highlighting the dangers of carcinogenic substances to which firefighters are exposed in their course of work, and what can be done about it.
WEB APP • New tool helps protect Ontario construction workers from lung disease
Conference June 10-11, 2024 • Ottawa, ON
Focusing on workers in situations of vulnerability and precariously employed workers.
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95% Confidence Interval (CI) is a range of values (upper and lower) that you can be 95% certain contains the true mean of the population.
The relative risk is a comparison of the risk of getting lung cancer for those exposed to diesel exhaust compared to those who have never been exposed to diesel exhaust – for example, if the relative risk is 1.5, it means that for the cumulative diesel exhaust exposure entered into the calculator, the risk associated with that exposure is 1.5 times higher than the background risk of lung cancer for those who have not been occupationally exposed to diesel exhaust.