Welcome to the Health & Safety Ontario website. Here you'll find a wide range of information and resources that will help you with your health and safety program and to keep you in legal compliance.
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2nd Annual H&S Leadership Survey uncovers make or break concerns for senior leaders
Learn moreWith pandemic restrictions easing and employees returning to the workplace, this is an ideal time to take the pulse of your workforce and tap into their ideas for improving processes and procedures.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY BLOG: Helping leaders protect their people
Take me thereThe reopening of businesses, recreational and leisure destinations in Ontario is improving our sense of well-being, yet many of us are still plagued by pandemic weariness.
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Past research conducted in this area has shown that significant effect of managers’ behavior, support, or leadership-style on employee mental health.
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Effective July 1, 2014, employers must ensure all workers and supervisors have completed a basic occupational health and safety awareness training program.
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A key tool in the Ontario Government's COVID-19 Response Framework is a requirement for workplaces to develop a safety plan. The plan's goal is to prevent transmission of the virus.
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Nine out of 10 organizations plan to keep employees working remotely some or all of the time after the pandemic ends, according to a recent Canadian survey.
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Your employees' mental health impacts absenteeism, morale, benefits use, and much more. It affects your workplace's productivity, culture and profits.
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Learn how one Ontario workplace used WSIB’s Health and Safety Excellence Program (HSEP) to improve health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A management system that integrates health and safety activities into all aspects of the operations will help achieve positive results.
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The province's COVID-19 Response Framework, was announced earlier this month, and aims to keep Ontario "safe and open".
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How can you help your employees ‘flatten the curve” of emotional distress during Wave 2 of the pandemic? We have some tips.
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Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act says that employers and supervisors should “take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker.”
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Whether your employees are working from home, returning to the workplace, or have been in the workplace all along, they have been with some constant companions: COVID-19-related stress and anxiety.
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WSIB has provided guidance for workers looking to file claims relating to COVID-19.
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Many of your employees will be experiencing a feeling of stress, anxiety and concern related to the Coronavirus outbreak.
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To help leaders and their employees face the challenges ahead, WSPS & Howatt HR have launched the Psychological Safety Blog.
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Helping organizations foster and maintain a psychologically safe and healthy workplace is a strategic initiative for Ontario's health and safety system.
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