HAMILTON, ON - July 8, 2009 - The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) announced that it would host a national forum to discuss the role leadership and responsibility play in improving and building safer and healthier workplaces. CCOHS' Forum III: Leading Workplace Change will be held March 8 to 9, 2010 in Gatineau, Quebec.
This unique event brings together representatives from Canadian, provincial and territorial governments, employers and labour organizations as well as subject experts to share their knowledge, perspectives and collective experience around effective leadership and its impact on workplace health and safety.
CCOHS' Forum III will feature a keynote presentation by best selling author and international improvement leader Jim Clemmer on Leading at the Speed of Change. Other experts will share their knowledge of how leadership impacts violence prevention, participatory ergonomics, and the internal responsibility system through training and knowledge transfer.
More information about the program and registration as well as, early bird, group and student discounts is available at www.ccohs.ca/events/forumiii .
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Eleanor Westwood, Manager of Communications
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
(905) 572-2981, Ext. 4408, E-mail: eleanorw@ccohs.ca
Jennifer Miconi-Howse, Communications Officer
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
(905) 572-2981, Ext. 4241, E-mail: jenmh@ccohs.ca
Please visit www.ccohs-cchst.ca
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.
