HAMILTON, ON - September 16, 2009 - The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) continues to utilize new technology to deliver health and safety information, by making its information available in a portable, audio mp3 format.
CCOHS recently launched Health and Safety to Go! a new podcast series offering, "bite" sized episodes on a variety of workplace health, safety and wellness issues. They run from 7 to 10 minutes long, are free to download and feature a new special guest each month.
Each episode is designed to keep listeners current on health and safety news, and to provide helpful tips and insights into the well being of working Canadians. The series launched with interviews offering insights and perspectives on Day of Mourning, influenza planning, young worker safety and working in the heat. Starting in October, the series is expanding to twice monthly and will include episodes that focus on commonly asked health and safety questions, and offer practical tips to employers and workers in both English and French.
Each episode of Health and Safety To Go! can be downloaded to your computer or MP3 player. Listeners can also subscribe to the RSS feed through an RSS feed reader or via iTunes; as new episodes are released they are downloaded automatically and stored until you are ready to listen.
For the complete listing of CCOHS podcasts, visit the CCOHS website .
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
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
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.
