Health and Safety Committee

The workplace is too often dangerous to our health. Every year, deaths, injuries and chronic diseases take their toll. The Health and Safety Committee is focused on prevention and on maintaining the highest degree of physical and mental health.

Our conference call meetings can easily accommodate you – no matter where you live. Add your voice to the events and initiatives that we organize and develop expertise in Health and Safety.

OUR MANDATE

The objectives of the PSAC North Regional Health & Safety Committees are to identify, promote and assist union actions around workplace health and safety by:

• Educating, politicizing and mobilizing Health and Safety activists by making links between themselves, the union, the workplace, andWorkers’ Safety and Compensation Boards
• Empowering, uniting and engaging all union members to take action for Occupational Health and Safety

DOCUMENTS AND LINKS

Here is a list of quintessential documents that form the basis of the Health and Safety Committee:

Regional Health and Safety committees’ brochures: Yukon, NWT and Nunavut. Click here, to view the brochure in Inuktitut.

Health and Safety Committees’ Terms of Reference: Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Joint Health and Safety Committee, Nunavut (English)

Joint Health and Safety Committee, Nunavut (Inuktitut)

Workers Safety Compensation Commission – WSCC (OHS Regulations, Posters, WHMIS (GHS), Codes of Practice)

http://www.wscc.nt.ca/

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (templates, a variety of topics)

http://www.ccohs.ca/