Spring into action with workplace health and safety tools and resources from CCOHS. In this issue, we're excited to introduce two new online tools: the Employment Legislation Service and CANLabel product labeling software. Plus, save the date for our next national conference on health and safety, Forum IV, and watch, listen, and learn with free webinars and podcasts on new and young workers, the aging workforce, and noise control.
Access Employment-related Legislation When You Need It
Stay informed and up-to-date on employment laws
Are you as informed as you should be about employment laws? There's a lot to know and to make it even more difficult, the laws are constantly changing. It can be challenging and time-consuming to keep current.
CCOHS has compiled all Canadian employment-related legislation to provide you with easy, convenient access to the information you need, to know your responsibilities and duties under the law, and to help meet your compliance needs.
CCOHS' Canadian Employment Legislation includes the full text of employment standards, labour relations, workers' compensation, pay equity, human rights and privacy legislation. It provides supplementary documentation and guides issued by the relevant ministries to help you interpret and apply the legislation, as well as regular updates with amendments highlighted. You can find the information you need quickly and easily by searching legislation and guides by words or phrases in just one jurisdiction, or across all jurisdictions.
The service can save you time and money by literally putting legislation into the palm of your hand. You can access CCOHS' Canadian Employment Legislation on your Blackberry, iPhone, or PDA, or keep it close at hand on your desktop or laptop.
To keep you current, you receive a Monthly Update Report that highlights amendments and alerts you to the progress of upcoming legislation. You also have access to our email Notification Service that allows you to track changes to specific documents (Acts, Regulations and Guides) found in the service. Lastly, by subscribing to our RSS Feed, you will be instantly notified when new content has been added or when it has been amended, helping you stay on top of legislation changes.
Bundled with your current CCOHS Legislation service or on its own, Canadian Employment Legislation can help satisfy your requirements for current, reliable, easily accessible legislative information to help you stay compliant.
Special Launch Pricing: Save 25% off the Employment Legislation Service. Enter Promo Code SAVE_EMP during Checkout. Regular pricing takes effect August 1, 2011. If you are a current Canadian enviroOSH Legislation or NLOR subscriber, you save even more. Please contact CCOHS Client Services at 1-800-668-4284 to take advantage of your exclusive client discount.
Learn more about the Canadian Employment Legislation service
Free Webinars on the Young and the Aging
Learn about specific risks for these two groups of workers
Young, new and migrant workers need special attention because it has been shown that they are at more risk of injury than their older or more experienced counterparts, especially in the first four to six months of employment.
Yet, as the workforce gets older, attention must also be paid to aging workers. Research has shown that a variety of physical and mental changes occur as people age. How do these changes affect people and the jobs they do?
Register for free recorded webinars from CCOHS that discuss new and young workers, as well as the aging workforce, from an occupational health and safety perspective. These on-demand sessions explore possible impacts and discuss solutions on how to keep everyone safe and free of injury, regardless of age or the level of experience.
To view these webinars, simply register and then gather in your meeting room and watch them as a group or if you prefer, individually at your desk. All you need is a computer, Internet connection and computer speakers or headphones.
Help Your New Workers Stay Safe
Free webinar with Jan Chappel, CCOHS
The Aging Workforce: OHS Solutions
Free webinar with Emma Ashurst, CCOHS
Save the Date for Forum IV
Plan to attend our next national conference on health and safety
Mark your calendar now for Forum IV, CCOHS' national conference on workplace health and safety. Set to take place October 29 and 30, 2012, in Halifax, NS, Forum IV is expected to be the venue for yet another rewarding discussion on the latest issues facing workplace health and safety.
Program planning is well underway, and you can stay informed by joining our mailing list or checking back on the Forum IV website.
"This forum is one of the best ways to exchange information and ideas. The Centre is very successful with this format. Thanks - great conference."
- Previous Forum attendee
Get in the School Safety Zone
New website focuses on health and safety resources for schools
Are you a school board health and safety specialist? CCOHS invites you to check out the Canadian School Boards Safety Zone, a new website with resources to help enhance the health and safety of your schools.
There are tips on a variety of topics specific to school safety, including maintenance and custodial practices, classroom safety, sports and activities, and school violence.
The site also features a discussion board where specialists can connect and share advice, plus a Repository where participating school boards can contribute their best practices, policies and procedures, and other health and safety resources.
Visit the Canadian School Boards Safety Zone
Easily Create Compliant Product Labels
Be among the first to try the new CANLabel online tool
When it comes to working safely with chemicals, WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Material Information System) labels are important because they are the first alert that there may be hazards associated with using the product covered by WHMIS legislation. The labels also tell what precautions to take when using the product. In addition, labels also inform the person that there is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) available which contains more detailed information on the product.
Improve chemical safety by creating compliant supplier and workplace labels with CCOHS' online tool, CANLabel. Features include:
- WHMIS (supplier and workplace) and OSHA formats
- Hazard classifications drive phrase options
- Automatic translations of standard phrases to French and Latin American Spanish
- The ability to customize phrases
- Compatibility with off-the-shelf adhesive stationary
- Multiple label sizes
Experience CANLabel for yourself and discover how easy it is to start creating compliant product labels, by test driving the demonstration version. Note that the full release of CANLabel will include GHS format and pictograms, as well as company-wide access to print labels from all locations with Internet access.
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