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Welcome to our collection of workplace health and safety articles. Discover leading content from industry experts on a wide range of H&S topics and trends.
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Did you know wearing eye protection can be a COVID requirement?
Employees who work indoors and outdoors within two metres of an unmasked person must wear appropriate eye protection and masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19
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Managing COVID-19 related impairment (Manufacturing Sector)
Impairment caused by fatigue, conflict, extreme cold or heat, substance abuse and other factors could make us a hazard to ourselves and others. Take these steps to reduce the risk.
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Mental Health: Self-Help Strategies that Work Day In and Day Out
The good news is that mental health is something that is now being discussed more and more freely and being recognized as a legitimate workplace hazard in all walks of life including farming.
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For Everything There is a Season
For most farms, it’s the time when equipment, which has been operating relentlessly around the clock without preventative maintenance, can be serviced.
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A Game Plan for Emergencies
At the beginning of the pandemic not many of us could project we’d be approaching our third year of dealing with it.
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Ask the Expert Protecting Your Team from Asphyxiating Gases
As two senior health and safety consultants at WSPS, Sheila and Jason Killoran know a thing or two about the devastating effect of gasses on farm operations.
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Welcoming employees back to work? Don't forget mental health in your plans
Help returning employees get up to speed with minimum stress and disruption by integrating mental health considerations into your plans.
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Manage workplace impairment during the pandemic with these six steps
Impairment caused by fatigue, conflict, extreme cold or heat, substance abuse and other factors could make us a hazard to ourselves and others. Take these steps to reduce the risk.
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Conducting a COVID-19 risk assessment before bringing employees back
If you're about to welcome employees back into the workplace, ensure they will be protected from COVID-19 by conducting a pandemic-specific hazard assessment.
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7 ways to maximize the effectiveness of your pandemic-era JHSC
Establishing terms of reference and understanding its role in remote workplaces are just two of the ways JHSCs can overcome COVID-19 obstacles and maximize their effectiveness.
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6 tips to launch a "disconnect" policy now
Being on call all the time is unhealthy and ultimately unproductive. Instead, limit after-hours communication with these six tips.
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Six conseils pour prévenir les troubles musculosquelettiques dans l'environnement de travail post-pandémie (pour les employeurs fédéraux)
Les employeurs proposeront bientôt des modèles de retour au travail permanents (présentiel à temps plein, télétravail à temps plein ou un mode hybride), le moment est donc tout indiqué pour envisager
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6 tips for preventing MSDs in the post-pandemic office (for Federal employers)
As workplaces prepare to assume a more permanent office model (full-time office, full-time home office, or a hybrid of the two), now is the ideal time to consider possible ergonomic implications.
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Six étapes pour adapter le plan de préparation aux urgences de votre entreprise aux changements climatiques (pour les employeurs fédéraux)
Selon Pam Patry, chef intérimaire du programme de lutte contre la pandémie, chargée des opérations sur le terrain à WSPS, l’augmentation considérable de l’ampleur, de la gravité et du caractère imprév
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6 steps to climate-proof your business' emergency preparedness plan (for Federal employers)
A dramatic surge in the size, scope, and unpredictability of extreme weather events around the globe makes including them in your emergency preparedness essential, says Pam Patry, WSPS’ Acting Pandemi
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Flu season is coming: what can you do now?
Flu season has already begun, and Public Health anticipates more illness and hospitalizations due to the loosening of COVID measures that kept last year’s flu numbers extremely low.
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Manage impairment risks and improve investigations with CSA Group standards
CSA Group has just published two standards that can help you better manage impairment in your workplace and improve your incident investigations.
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How to defuse new COVID-19 fears – and avoid work refusals
If an employer is following provincial and public health requirements, then the circumstances under which a right to refuse is upheld would have to be extreme or unusual.
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Create safer in-store experiences in a post-vaccinated world
For employers, surviving and thriving means taking a longer view by integrating short-term COVID-19 measures into longer term health and safety practices.
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