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Are you COVID-ready? Certify your JHSC via WHSC’s virtual classroom

A second wave of COVID-19 infection is now spreading in Ontario workplaces and communities. Experts warn this wave could be worse than the first. Is your workplace prepared?

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WHSC COVID-19 training updated and scheduled in virtual classrooms

The virus that causes COVID-19 and our understanding of conditions that spread it continue to evolve. As such, necessary precautions must evolve too.

COVID precautions protect workers’ physical and mental health, study

Canadian health-care workers say they lacked adequate COVID-19 precautions during the pandemic’s first wave and new research finds this also contributes to poorer mental health.

COVID-19 rates higher among racialized and low wage workers

Despite making up just 25 per cent of the Ontario population, immigrants and refugees accounted for more than 43 per cent of the cases of COVID-19, according to a recent report.

Fed gov’t expands employer duties to address violence and harassment

Legislation aimed at preventing work place violence and harassment and expanding protection to more federally-regulated workers will come into force on January 1, 2021.

New WHSC Labour Day video explores lessons of 2020

The future, even the very near future, is filled with many questions each tinged with hope but also fear. For workers on the frontlines of Ontario’s reopening much is at stake.

JHSC Certification: Safe September learning continues virtually

Competent joint health and safety committees (JHSC) can play a critical role identifying and resolving workplace health and safety issues, including COVID-related concerns.

WHSC working at heights training resumes with COVID precautions

Have you been waiting for access to essential and mandatory Working at Heights (WAH) training delayed by the COVID-19 crisis? If so, your wait is over.

Safe September reopening: Importance of COVID-19 workplace inspections

Does your workplace have a COVID-19 plan for a safe September reopening? Are workers properly trained to understand and help implement these protocols? Effective workplace inspections can offer some answers.

WHSC brings virtual classrooms to Ontario workplaces

Ontario has entered Stage 3 of the province’s COVID-19 guidelines, but with Stage 3 public health experts advise many precautions like social distancing should remain in place.

Safer COVID disinfectants to be explored in WHSC webinar August 20

COVID-19 precautions will be needed for some time. Now is a good time to reassess the effectiveness and safety of routine workplace measures especially the use of disinfectants.

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