Transcript CanOSH – Canadian OSH resources on the Internet

CanOSH – Canadian OSH
Resources on the Internet
Chris Moore
Canadian Centre for Occupational
Health and Safety
April 2001
Overview
 CanOSH
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Background
What is it
How does it help Canadians
 Other reliable Canadian OSH web sites
 Finding Canadian sites
 Canadian OSH discussion groups
CanOSH background
 Created in 1998
 Completely redesigned and updated in 2001
 To provide a single source for Canadians to
access OSH information from all Canadian
jurisdictions
CanOSH – What is it?
 Public bilingual web site created and
maintained by CCOHS
 Collaboration between CCOHS and federal,
provincial and territorial governments
 Portal to OSH information on web sites of
government agencies with responsibility for
OSH and/or compensation
CanOSH – What is it? II
 Links to information in a variety of
categories:
Alerts and bulletins
 News and Events
 Legislation
 Statistics
 Publications
And more…
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CanOSH – What is it? III
 Search engine
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Content of all the agencies’ web sites is indexed
Search all sites or any combination of sites
Index is updated continuously
OSH information in English and French
CanOSH –
How does it help Canadians
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Makes credible OSH information from all
provinces and territories readily accessible
Lets employers and workers access hard to find
government information
Allows government representatives to see what’s
happening in other jurisdictions
Allows anyone to search for all Canadian
governments’ information on a particular OSH
subject
CanOSH Home
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Access agencies’ sites by jurisdiction
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Keep current on the latest issues
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See what’s happening in each jurisdiction
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Access OSH Acts & Regulations
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Links to publications…
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Good Practice in various juridictions
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Other resources such as Young Worker info.
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Key word search across multiple jurisdictions
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Other reliable Canadian sites
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CCOHS
Canada Safety Council
Canadian Health Network (indexed by CanOSH)
Health Canada (indexed by CanOSH)
Industry Canada – Cdn. Injury Statistics
Institut de recherche en santé et en sécurité du
travail (IRSST)
Other reliable Canadian sites II
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Institute for Work and Health (to be indexed by
CanOSH)
Manitoba Labour Workplace Safety and Health
(indexed by CanOSH)
Ontario Ministry of Labour (indexed by
CanOSH)
New Brunswick Workplace Health, Safety and
Compensation Commission (indexed by
CanOSH)
Other reliable Canadian sites III
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Ontario Safe Workplace Associations (IAPA,
OSSA, ESAO, MASHA, THSAO, etc.)
Saskatchewan Labour OH&S (indexed by
CanOSH)
Workers Health and Safety Centre
Young Worker Awareness Program
CCOHS – OSH Answers
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OSH Answers topics
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OSH Answers document on powered hand tools
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Saskatchewan Labour OH&S
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Finding Canadian sites
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CCOHS Internet Directory
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Yahoo Canada
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AltaVista Canada
CCOHS Internet Directory – Canadian sites
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CCOHS Internet Directory – Canadian sites
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Searching AltaVista Canada
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Searching AltaVista Canada
Canadian Discussion Groups
Health & Safety Canada (HS-Canada)
 AQHSSTLST (Association québéquoise
pour l'hygiène, la santé et la sécurité du
travail (AQHSST)
 Others listed in CanOSH
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CanOSH list of Canadian discussion groups
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Recent discussions
on HS-Canada
HS-Canada Archives
 View all messages that have been sent to
HS-Canada
 Search by subject
 Accessible whether you participate in the
list or not
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Get a copy of this presentation
 http://www.ccohs.ca/events/iapa2001/
 Chris Moore ([email protected])