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Occ-COVID Series
This Friday (January 14th) at 1:00 PM EDT

Occ-COVID: A Better Way Forward
Sharing lessons and direction for a new year to keep workers and workplaces safe for all.

Please join our multi-disciplinary panelists:
  • Pandemic Equity Lessons for OHS, Andréane Chénier, CUPE National Health and Safety Representative and OHCOW Sudbury LAC Chair
  • Commit to C.A.R.E.: AIHA and IBEC’s Journey to Create Awareness about COVID-19 and the Built Space, Kenneth Martinez, CIH, Chief Science Officer, Integrated Bioscience and Built Environment Consortium (IBEC) and Susan Marchese, CAE, Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, AIHA
  • Protecting our Province (and Country), lessons from the Frontline, Dr. Joe Vipond, ER Physician, Calgary and PoPAb founder
  • More ideas to collectively make a difference? Panel Discussion

Please visit our website to register for this session and to view resources from past events.
Save The Date: Occ-COVID - January 28
Mark your calendars for Occ-COVID: More to Learn: Lessons from the front line of yet another wave.
Save the Date: Mark your calendars on World Cancer Day
Needles in a Haystack: Rare Cancers and the Workplace

Join OHCOW and guests from the Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) for a Rare Cancers & the Workplace Webinar at 10:30 AM on Friday, February 4.

More information coming soon!
Save The Dates: RSI Day 2022 Webinar Series
Mark your calendars:
  • Week 1 - February 10, 2022 – 10-12 EST
Musculoskeletal Disorders 
  • Week 2 - February 17, 2022 – 10-12 EST
Integrating Components for a Return-to-Work (RTW) Program
  • Week 3 - February 24, 2022 – 10-12 EST
Ergonomics for Specific Occupations
  • Week 4 - February 28, 2022 – 10-12 EST
Ergonomic Prevention Tools 
How to Improve Ventilation in your Workplace to Prevent COVID-19
Friday, January 21 - 10am to 12pm EST

Online Training for Workplace Health & Safety Committee members

The online training will be delivered jointly by both the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Inc. (OHCOW) and Occupational Health Centre (OHC in Winnipeg)
 
With: Kevin Hedges, Ph.D., CIH, COH, Occupational Hygienist, OHCOW

How to improve ventilation in your workplace to prevent COVID-19. Improvements to ventilation will be critical especially when people are indoors during colder weather. This online training session will use the OHCOW ventilation checklist as basis for guidance.

Space is limited!
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