HAMILTON, ON (November 3, 2011) – The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has developed an interactive, online tool to help organizations identify, and control common hazards found in the workplace.
OSH Essentials™ will provide practical information and resources to help managers, safety professionals, compliance officers, senior management and health and safety committee members recognize, assess and control hazards in the workplace.
“With OSH Essentials™, we wanted to create a management tool that would make it easy and affordable for organizations to identify and manage workplace hazards,” said Gerry Culina, Manager, General Health and Safety Services at the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS).
Each tool includes checklists and guides to be used to review workplace activities identify potential and existing hazards, select from possible solutions, and created a final action plan.
OSH Essentials™ has ten topics to choose from including excessive noise; incorrect lighting levels; manual materials handling: musculoskeletal disorder prevention; slips and trips; working alone; and workplace violence. The online tool also provides information on relevant legislation by key sections, and suggested control measures to help mitigate workplace risks.
All content within OSH Essentials™ is developed and regularly reviewed by CCOHS' team of Technical Specialists.
More information about OSH Essentials™ is available on the CCOHS website.
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For Further Information, Contact:
Eleanor Westwood, Manager - Communications
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
(905) 572-2981, Ext. 4408 E-mail: eleanor.westwood@ccohs.ca
www.ccohs.ca/
Jennifer Miconi-Howse, Communications Officer
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
(905) 572-2981, Ext. 4241 E-mail: jennifer.miconi-howse@ccohs.ca
www.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.
