CCOHS offers free webinar as part of Healthy Workplace Month
HAMILTON, ON - September 29, 2008 - The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) will be offering a free webinar as part of Canada's Healthy Workplace Month. Canadians are invited to gather in their meeting rooms and join in the Journey to a Healthier Workplace.
Karen Jackson of Trillium Health Centre will share how a healthy workplace initiative has become part of everyday life at Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga. Allan Smofsky, Chair of the Canadian Healthy Workplace Council, will present strategies and steps that can be taken to help create healthy workplace cultures.
The one hour presentation will be webcast live Tuesday, October 21 at 1:00 PM EDT.
Canada's Healthy Workplace Month runs from September 29 to October 26. It is a time in which workplaces and employees are encouraged to work together to create healthier workplaces and build a culture of trust and respect in which people are happy and healthy.
Visit healthyworkplacemonth.ca to learn more about and sign up for the workplace challenge, and participate in a fun, friendly competition against others across Canada.
The CCOHS website has more information about the webinar and how to sign up.
For further information, contact:
Eleanor Westwood, Manager of Communications
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
(905) 572-2981, Ext. 4408 Email: eleanorw@ccohs.ca
Please visit www.ccohs-cchst.ca
About CCOHS
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), a Canadian federal government agency based in Hamilton, Ontario is Canada's national resource for the advancement of workplace health and safety. CCOHS promotes the total well-being - physical, psychosocial and mental health - of working Canadians by providing information, training, education, management systems and solutions that support health and safety programs and the prevention of injury and illness. CCOHS partners and collaborates with agencies and organizations from Canada and around the world to improve the quality and quantity of resources and programs, as well as expand the breadth of usage of occupational health information to many different segments of society.
