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!
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.
November 6, 2023 • 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.
September 7, 2022
Prepared by: Paul Sampara, BSc., DOHS, MEng,
ROH Occupational Hygienist
October 10, 2023 CBC News Article: Health-care providers often miss link between workplace and disease, says report
FALL 2023 • Reporting Hightlights from the advancing workplace Exposure Surveillance in Canada Workshop from the OCRC
June 2023 • The provincial government amended Ontario Regulations to add two new cancers: primary-site pancreatic cancer and primary-site thyroid cancer.
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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.
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