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Introduction
This page has links to web sites having information on the Year 2000 Bug, also known as the Y2K or Millennium Bug. These lists are not intended to be comprehensive except for the ones related to occupational health and safety.
For more information you can read Occupational Health and Safety and the Year 2000 contains links to Y2K web pages compiled by the CCOHS Inquiries Service at the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). This question-and-answer document describes many of the web sites listed below but focuses on ones related to occupational health and safety.
General
Government
Canadian Federal Government Year 2000 Information Site (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat) has links to many documents, sites, and include a glossary, definition and English-French lexicon.
SOS 2000 (Industry Canada)
CAN2K is the "awareness component of the Year 2000 initiative launched by Industry Canada in conjunction with the Canada-Pennsylvania Partnership Council" and like other Canadian Federal Government sites is available in English and French.
Key Canadian Governmental Year 2000 Internet Web Sites (links and descriptions) - HRDC - Human Resources Development Canada
Information
Society Project Office (ISPO)
The European Community (EC) Y2K-Euro Page
Y2K page: Year
2000 computer problem
Y2K Issues - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Search Engines / Search Directories
YEAR 2000 COMPUTER PROBLEM - from Northern Light
Yahoo News Home> Technology > Full Coverage> Year 2000 Problem
Yahoo! News - Canada > News Home > Canadian News > Year2000 Problem in Canada
Media / Publishers
albertaweb.com : has links to news, reports and links to Y2K web sites
CBC Year 2000 Problem page: from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Millennium Bug Information: from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Books on the Y2K problem and some interesting Y2K web sites: from the BBC
Year 2000 Resources: F rom the Canadian Community Newspapers Association
Year 2000 Bug: From ZD (Ziff-Davis) Publishing
Y2K Watch Page: From The Toronto Globe and Mail
Other
Year2000 Information Center (TM)
Year 2000 Issues and the NRAO (U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory) - has links to General Year 2000 Issue Primers and sites with comprehensive information plus other information.
MITRE/ESC Year 2000 Homepage (The Mitre Corporation and the Electronic Systems Center)
Y2K Health and Safety - more "personal" than occupationally-related web sites
International Page - Multi-lingual / International Y2K web sites
IT2000 - the [U.S.] National Bulletin Board For the Year 2000
Embedded Systems
Occupational Safety and Health Implications of the Millennium Bug: Embedded Microchips
Embedded computer chips (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)
Embedded Chip Problems NRAO (U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEE, Institution of Electrical Engineers, (UK)
Occupational Health and Safety
(Note: the U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE)web site has the most comprehensive OH&S information.)
Canada
British Columbia - Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia
Workplace health and safety and the year 2000 (2-page document)
Nova Scotia - Department of Labour
Ontario - Minister of Labour
New! Occupational Health and Safety 2000--Is Your Workplace Ready? -- a brochure about the Y2K problem and employers' responsibilities
New! Y2K Global Permit - a fact sheet about working long hours in order to achieve Y2K compliance
Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) of Ontario
Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan Labour
New! Y2K - Are you Ready? - a 3 page safety pamphlet
Australia
Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Board (Australia)
Is there a Year 2000 pest in your plant (2-page, 33K PDF document)
The Year 2000 Problem and Health and Safety (10-page, 92K PDF document)
Victorian WorkCover Authority (Australia)
Is the millennium bug dangerous? - links to 8 short documents, millenium bug video, and related links
WorkCover - New South Wales - To view the Y2K information on this site, click on "News Break", select Y2K, press the "Agree" button to see a list Y2K FAQs, news articles, and links that are available for viewing.
WorkSafe Western Australia
Year 2000 Date Problem -Implications for Occupational Safety and Health (document about 5 pages long)
Workcover South Australia
(non-java format is faster - http://www.workcover.sa.gov.au/menu/menu.html) has a 2-page Fact Sheet (HTML). To view this publication, click on <publications>, then select <OHS publications>, (or select OHS under the "Publications" heading on the non-java page) and scroll down to "How the Year 2000 and the Millennium Bug could affect your Health, Safety and Welfare".
Belgium
Belgium PreventNet Y2K Home Page
Y2K and Occupational Safety & Health - links to Y2K & OS&H document, case studies, forum/mail serve, and resources (also in French and Dutch)
Ireland
Health and Safety Authority
New! Are you ready for the Millennium Bug? (a 4 page HTML question and answer document with references and links to other sites)
United Kingdom
Health and Safety Executive - HSE (UK)
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) - Health and Safety and the Year 2000 Problem Web Page
Safety Policy Directorate of HSE - Directorate Home Page
Safety And The Year 2000 (3-page document)
Other HSE Publications:
Five Steps to Risk Assessment (12-page, 218K PDF document)
Year 2000 Risk Assessment - Will you come through the millenium safely? (10-page, 234K PDF document)
Contingency planning for a safe year 2000 - 20-page, 616K PDF file
Health and Safety and the Year 2000 Problem - Guidance on year 2000 issues as they affect safety-related control systems (as an HTML document; also available as a 20-page, 179K PDF document)
Year 2000 assessment - A Review Framework (a 16-page, 617K PDF file)
Safety and the Year 2000 - same title as the above 3-page summary but this document is about 75 pages long and is a priced publication. More details, including the Table of Contents, are available on the HSE web site.
Testing safety-related systems for year 2000 compliance - information on this priced HSE publication is available on the HSE web site.
New! The morning after the Millennium before - a strategy for restarting safety if you've been bitten by the Millenium Bug. (a 12-page, 387K PDF document)
United States of America
Year 2000 Perspectives for ES&H Managers - from the environment, safety and health (ES&H) information resources of the Technical Information Services (TIS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)
Department of Labour (USA)
Employment Standards Administration Y2K home page
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) (USA)
Millenium bug can affect workplace safety and health - 1 page summary page
MHSA - Mine Safety and Health Administration (USA)
Year 2000 web page - has 2-page document that links to Y2K and related sites plus a link to the report below
Report on the Awareness and Readiness of the Mining Industry Concerning Year 2000 (Y2K) Problem
NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA)
National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training for Hazardous Materials, Waste Operations has a Y2K section with links to a worker handbook, links to other Y2K resources and archived articles.
NIOSH - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (USA)
Chemical Safety
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Chem Links - Click on "Year 2000 General Issues" or "Year 2000, Process Control, Instrumentation and Misc. Equipment Vendor Web Sites" at the bottom of their list of ChemLink topics
"Addressing Year 2000 Issues in Small and Medium-sized Facilities that Handle Chemicals" (17-page, 648K PDF document ) - downloadable from CSB web news page
NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA)
National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training for Hazardous Materials, Waste Operations has a Y2K section with links to a worker handbook, links to other Y2K resources and archived articles.
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
International Chemical Safety Advisory World-Wide Advisory Concerning Chemical Safety Issues Related To The Y2K Computer Failure Problem
Electronic Information Clearing House on Chemical Emergencies
OECD's Work on Chemical Accidents: Y2K Issues
Environmental
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Year 2000 Website
Environmental Health and Safety - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Emergency Preparedness
Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness
Canadian Emergency Preparedness
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Authority (USA)
U.K. Home Office Emergency Planning Division - has links to Publications, Bulletin Boards, and Links to other emergency planning related organisations.
Health
Canadian Year 2000 National Clearinghouse for Health (CYNCH)
Health Canada
CDC - Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
The Year 2000 Issue Implications for Public Health Information and Surveillance Systems
Laboratories
CDC - Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
Division of Laboratory Systems, Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO)
Standards
British Standards Institution (BSI) - a Y2K page with links to downloadable BSI documents and other information, including a link to "Year 2000 Guidance for the Blind and Disabled Communities"
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA)
IEEE Std 2000.1-1998, IEEE Standard for Year 2000 Terminology (15-page, 253K PDF file)
IEEE Draft Std P2000.2, IEEE Recommended Practice for Information Technology: Year 2000 Test Methods (111-page, 447K PDF file - "an approved Recommended Draft, subject to change")
A Summary of the International Standard Date and time Notation
Standards Australia Year 2000 Compliance Register
SAA/SNZ MP77:1998 : A Definition of Year 2000 conformity requirements (Revised November 1998) - Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand; equivalent to British Standards Institution (BSI) document DISC PD 2000-1, A Definition of Year 2000 Conformity Requirements
Business (Large and small-to-medium size companies / SMEs)
Business and Industry (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA)
The Workplace (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)
Canadian Bankers Association
Business Development Bank of Canada
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The Year 2000 Problem: Risks and Solutions - A Manual for SMEs (small & medium size enterprises / businesses)
YEAR 2000 INITIATIVE (World Bank's Information for Development Program, infoDev)
http://www.worldbank.org/y2k/
http://www.worldbank.org/infodev/y2k/toolkit/
Facilities /Buildings /Managers
The Year 2000 and Real Estate - The Year 2000 strikes Building Systems!
The Year 2000 Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) has links to many sites of interest to facilities managers and has "established a Year 2000 Special Interest Group (SIG) where users can download articles, read and post messages and even chat in real time."
Facility System Year 2000 Issues Y2K-Status - links to Facility/ Building Systems related sights
Home and Consumer Products
Document last updated on October 27, 1999