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Canada's National Health and Safety Website - Provides a single location on the Internet to access the health and safety information provided by the federal, provincial and territorial governments of Canada
Health Canada -. This comprehensive website can also be reached by following links on the first web link provided.
Pandemic Influenza - One-stop access to information from Government of Canada departments and agencies on pandemic, avian and seasonal influenza.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - Canada's national centre for occupational health and safety (OH&S) information, established and partly funded by the federal government.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - United States agency responsible for training, research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related disease and injury. The agency is part of the United States Department of Health.
U. S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration - United States agency responsible for inspection of worksites and enforcement of occupational health and safety laws. The agency is part of the United States Department of Labor
Health Canada's Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) In partnership with Alberta Human Resources and Employment, Health Canada administers the federal Hazardous Products Act (HPA) and associated Controlled Products Regulations (CPR). This legislation requires Canadian suppliers (including distributors and importers) to provide supplier labels and material safety data sheets (MSDSs) for controlled products that are sold or imported for use in Canadian workplaces. The Health Canada WHMIS web site is designed to help suppliers to comply with the law.
Alberta Workers' Heath Centre - This non-profit organization is supported by the Alberta Federation of Labour and many unions, including the Health Sciences Association of Alberta. They provide information and free consultation on all aspects of worker health and safety including: hazards on the job, rights to a healthy workplace and compensation, strategies and programs for improving the workplace, issues of health and safety regulation, enforcement. Their site provides links to many activist organizations working towards improving workers' health and safety.
The Sars Commission Report - "Spring of Fear" - The report offers recommendations to the Ontario Ministry of Health. One of the recommendations is to listen to unions. Just as hospitals should listen more carefully to the concerns of nurses and other front-line health workers, the Ministry of Health would be well advised to listen more carefully to the reasonable concerns of health worker unions which have enormous front-line experience in the actual problems of worker safety on the ground.
Safety Associations
The Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare (OSACH) is a non-profit corporation of Health Care Employers in Ontario. It is established under the Ontario Business Corporations Act and is a "designated entity" under the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act, subject to provisions of this statute in terms of governance, funding, functions, operations and objectives.
The Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) - is a non-profit, non-governmental association of health agencies in Saskatchewan.
The Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in BC (OHSAH) was conceived in early 1998 in an Accord between management and union representatives. The Accord resulted in the creation of OHSAH, an agency with the goal of reducing workplace injuries and illness in healthcare workers and returning injured workers back to the job quickly and safely.
The Association for Health and Safety in the workplace, social affairs sector This health and safety association in Quebec has nineteen management and labour associations as members and has a joint Board of Directors. It is a non-profit organization funded mainly by premiums collected from all employers in the health and social service sector.
