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Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario (OHSCO)

Université Laval's Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management and the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)

Mental Health at Work ... From Defining to Solving the Problem (3 booklets)

Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME)

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Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario (OHSCO)

Updated! Heat Stress Awareness Guide (480 KB)
Developed by the Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario, this guide is intended to assist in the early identification of heat stress and summarizes the causes, symptoms and treatment of heat-related stress, presents a five-step approach for using the Humidex, and outlines specific actions for managing and controlling heat stress.
Publication Date: May 2009
Heat Stress Awareness Guide

Heat Stress Poster (1,063 KB)
A companion piece to the Heat Stress Awareness Guide, this poster can be displayed in your workplace and offers simple tips that can help your workers protect themselves from the deadly symptoms of heat stress.
Publication Date: July 2007
Heat Stress Poster

Heat Stress Awareness Tool (303 KB)
A companion piece to the Heat Stress Awareness Guide and Poster, this tool helps you determine actions based on temperature and humidity.
Publication Date: July 2007

Heat Stress Awareness Tool

Humidex Based Heat Response Plan (55 KB)
The Humidex Based Heat Response Plan, developed by the Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario’s (OHSCO) Heat Stress Awareness Committee translates the wet bulb globe temperatures found in the 2007 American Conference of Governmental Hygienists (ACGIH) Heat Stress TLV® (Threshold Limit Value®) into a Humidex reading.
Publication Date: May 2007

Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) Prevention Series

The guideline, resource manual, and toolbox were developed in partnership with the members of OHSCO, which is comprised of the Ministry of Labour (MOL), the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB), the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) and the health and safety associations (HSAs) including IAPA. The Centre of Research Expertise for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD) also assisted in its development.

The MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario describes a recommended framework for MSD prevention.

MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario - English

The Resource Manual for the MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario contains information on implementing the process described in the guideline, understanding and recognizing MSD hazards, assessing risk and controlling hazards.

Resource Manual for the MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario - English
The MSD Prevention Toolbox provides basic and simple-to-use tools and worksheets to help with your MSD prevention program. The Toolbox is broken into three parts.

The primary purpose of Toolbox A is to provide workplace parties with a set of simple to use tools and worksheets that are designed to help you get started with your MSD prevention efforts.



MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario - English
The primary purpose of Toolbox B is to provide workplace parties with additional information and tools that they can use to enhance their current MSD prevention process and, if required, move beyond a simple MSD risk assessment. In this toolbox you will find a tool to help you review your MSD prevention process, information on calculating the costs of MSDs, a sample MSD prevention policy / procedure, additional MSD hazard recognition tools, an MSD risk assessment checklist, and a tool to help you communicate the results of an MSD prevention project.


MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario - English
The primary purpose of Toolbox C is to provide workplace parties with additional information on in-depth MSD risk assessment methods. The risk assessment methods described in this toolbox may be helpful if the simple risk assessment method, as described in the Resource Manual for the MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario, has not identified which MSD hazards are of concern or how exposure can be controlled.
MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario - English





Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME)

Right Before Your Eyes
Internationally Trained Workers in Canada (385 KB)

Business Results Through Hiring Internationally Trained Workers In Canada: “Right Before Your Eyes” is the result of a successful partnership between Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) – Ontario Division and the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities (MTCU).

Business Results Through Literacy - Overview
See ordering details for full publication below (175 KB)

This guidebook is about improving business results and ensuring a successful future. The world of tomorrow will see strong demand for technological know-how. There will be little demand for unskilled labour. Employees will need to be skilled, and able to learn and adapt to new and continually changing processes. A commitment to lifelong learning will be vital. The workforce will need to be literate and technologically advanced. Are your employees ready?

For details on these and other CME publications, please contact:
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters
5995 Avebury Road – Ste 900
Mississauga, ON L5B 2E1
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Université Laval's Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management and the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST)

Mental Health at Work ... From Defining to Solving the Problem (3 booklets)
The Université Laval's Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management and the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) have developed an information kit for work-related mental health problems. Entitled "Mental Health at Work ... From Defining to Solving the Problem," this unique kit in Canada will allow workers and organizations to deal better with this problem, which is the main reason for the increase in work absenteeism.

Booklet 1 - Scope of the Problem: How Workplace Stress Is Shown
(2,030 KB PDF)

The first defines the concept of occupational stress and describes the extent of the problem and its consequences for individuals and organizations.
Publication Date: October 2005

Booklet 2 - What Causes the Problem: The Sources of Workplace Stress
(2,294 KB PDF)

The second booklet presents the main sources of occupational stress. It describes the personal factors that predispose certain individuals to such problems and proposes various methods that can help reduce the negative impacts of stress.
Publication Date: October 2005

Booklet 3 - Solving the Problem: Preventing Stress in the Workplace
(2,395 KB PDF)

The last booklet describes the three possible levels of prevention: (1) risk factor elimination or control, (2) the mechanisms that can help reduce the negative impacts of stress, and (3) treatment, the return to work, and follow-up of people. It also presents a strategic process for effectively preventing work-related mental health problems and practical tools for facilitating the initiation of action.
Publication Date: October 2005