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• Anticipating the Next Wave: Now is the time to boost preparedness for Influenza A (H1N1)
• From the Desk of the President
• Preventing Rear-end Collisions
• OSACH Launches Ergonomic Services
• Protecting Your Lungs and Your Skin: Be Aware of Chemicals that Cause Both Asthma and Dermatitis
• Road to Zero
• August Updates
• Consultant Profile: Neil McDermott, M.Sc ., CRSP
• OSACH Consultants

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• Participatory Ergonomics: Introducing the OSACH EPIC Program
• From the Desk of the President
• Tackling Workplace Violence Is an Inside Jog at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital
• Senior management buy-in crucial for HSMS
• Road to Zero Update
• Consultant Profile: Tina Dunlop, RN, BScN, MSc(c)
• OSACH Consultants

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• Focus On: WSIB Road to Zero
• From the Desk of the President
• Medical Diagnostic Radiography: Understanding and Reducing Radiation Risk
• OSACH Safety Group Goes Regional!
• OSACH Consultants
• Consultant Profile: Derek Morgan, B.A., MHK

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• Workplace Violence
• From the Desk of the President
• OSACH to Expand Safety Group Membership in 2009
• OSACH Health and Safety Management System
• OSACH - CSA Conference Plenary
• Leading by Example
• Region of Halton to participate in OSACH HSMS Project
• Health and Safety in the Workplace
• Pandemic Preparedness - Physician's offices & clinics
• Pandemic Preparedness - Personal & family care
• OSACH Consultant Up-date

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• Mental Illness - an Emerging Priority for Health Care Employers
• From the Desk of the President
• Radon on the Radar
• Safe Employees = Safe Patients: St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital’s Annual Learning Blitz
• OSACH Hosts 6th Annual Workplace Safety & Health Inter-Provincial Cooperative Healthcare Summit.
• New Award Honours Excellence in Workplace and Patient Safety
• Federal H&S Amendments Include Ergonomics Hazards
• OSACH Introduces Laboratory-Specific Certification
• Staff Directory

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• New Effective Leadership Training and Manuals
• From the Desk of the President
• NAOSH Week 2007 Events
• Revisiting Slips and Falls Prevention
• New Drive Alive Training and Manuals
• New Asbestos Regulations
• 2007 Ontario Influenza Pandemic Plan Released
• Safe Sharps Mandatory in Hospitals Sep 2008
• Staff Directory

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• Cutting MSDs
• From the Desk of the President
• NAOSH Week 2007
• Navigating Ontario's Prevention System
• Threads of Life's Steps for Life 5 km walk/run
• Defining Wellness
• New OSACH Products
• OSACH/CSA Healthcare Safety Forum 2007
• Amendments to Industrial Noise Legislation
• Coming Soon: Effective Leadership Document
• CREOD Joint Health and Safety Committee Study
• Staff Directory
• Respirator Fit Testing Products and Training

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• First Glance at the Last Chance Results
• From the Desk of the President
• LCI Safety Groups
• Deciphering the Last Chance Initiative
• How to Adjust your Chair
• OSACH/CSA Healthcare Safety Forum 2007
• Staff Directory
• Certification Training

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• Sitting Pretty (office chairs)
• From the desk of the President
• In MRI the M means Hazard (magnetic scanner safety standards development)
• The Wellness Effect (benefits to staff and clients)
• Directory
• New Products (orientation DVD)

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• WSIB Young Worker Campaign Sends Universal Safety Message
• From the Desk of the President
• Beat the Heat: Working in Hot Environments
• Heat Stress Management: Let your fingers and toes help you beat the heat
• Having Work Done in Confined Spaces? You’ll Need a Permit
• Joint Health and Safety Committee Check-Up: CREOD study to focus on Ontario’s acute-care hospitals
• New Products
• Directory

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• Haven't Got Time for the Pain [reducing work-related MSD]
• From the Desk of the President
• OSACH's Guide to Developing a Workplace Violence Prevention Program in Your Organization
• Safety Groups Program for Hospitals
• OSACH's Safety Group
• CBRN [Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear incident] Training Session
• OSACH Launch
• The Safe Workplace Partnership Program: an Eight Per Cent Solution
• NAOSH Week Contest Winners
• OSACH staff directory

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• What is in a Name?
• From the Desk of the President
• Pandemic Influenza: planning for possibilities
• Are you Ready for the Next Disaster?
• These Boots Were Made for Walking [slip and fall prevention]
• Is the Patient Lifting Program Helping?
• Ontario Gets Serious about Snuffing Out Tobacco Use
• OSACH staff directory

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• Does your Ventilation System Measure Up?
• From the Desk of the President
• Influenza and Pandemic Influenza: What is the Threat?
• Nitrous Oxide - Nothing to Laugh At (click here for full text of article)
• Radiation Safety - Reducing the Risk of Exposure
• Health News from the Ministry of Labour
• Staff Directory
• OSACH Consultant Contact Information

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• Client Aggression: a Serious Issue
• From the Desk of the CEO
• "Last Chance" Initiative: First Quarter Results
• Benchmarking Project Revision
• Needs Assessment Tool revised
• Health Care Sector Environmental Scan and Trend Analysis
• Over-Head Patient Lift Evaluation Study (OHPLES)
• The Gentle Persuasive Approaches^© (GPA^©) Project
• OSACH Board of Directors
• Introducing new OSACH Head Office Staff
• OSACH gets Hygeia Award for Don of a New Day
• Health Canada Alert re: Patient Lifts
• Placing Students in Health Care Organizations
• Safety Engineered Medical Sharps (SEMS) Legislation
• OSACH Award of Merit
• OSACH - Experts in Health and Community Care Issues
• WSIB Annual Youth Awareness Campaign
• Occupational Exposure Limits
• Trends in Workplace Injuries, Illnesses and Policies in Health Care Across Canada
• New OSACH Products Being Developed
• Seeking Participants in a Research Study
• Second Interim Report of SARS Commission
• OSACH Safety Group
• Beat Heat Stress
• Patient Lift Initiative a Great Success
• OSACH Staff Directory
• OSACH Consultant Contact Information

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• Don of a New Day - Personal Protection for a New Era
• From the Desk of the CEO
• The 'Last Chance' for Workplaces to Improve Safety
• OSACH is a New Sponsor for Safety Groups
• Important Information for Senior Management of Health and Community Care Organizations
• WSIB Day of Mourning
• Developing and Implementing an OH&S System
• WSIB Student Video Contest
• OHSAH's WHITE database
• Caring for our Caregivers
• Introducing a New Consultant
• Vehicle pre-trip inspection
• 2004 NAOSH Contest Winners
• 2005 NAOSH Contest
• NAOSH Week Activities for the Western and Central Ontario Regions
• Checking the Pulse of Workplace Health & Safety
• Empowering Young Workers
• The New Privacy Landscape in Ontario
• Implementing a Client Mechanical Lift Program in your Health Care Facility
• Regulations Under Review
• Research That Makes a Difference
• OSACH’s New Planning Guide for the Implementation of Client Mechanical Lifts
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• Featured Products
• OSACH Staff Directory

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• OSACH Clients Participate in Infection Control Tool Development
• Infection Control PPE Video Don of a New Day Coming Soon
• What's It Like to be on a Video Shoot?
• Toronto East General Hospital Gets Award
• Strains and Sprains
• Ergonomics in the Laboratory
• How to Use NEER as a Profit Centre
• Maintaining a Balance for Worker Health and Safety Training Needs
• WSIB Student Video Contest
• Automobile Emergency Kit
• Cold Weather: Be Safe Even Off the Job
• Promoting a Safety Culture
• Oxegen Adds Infection Control to its E-Learning Products
• PPE for the Cast Technician
• 2004 Health and Safety Week Contest - Last Call!
• MOL Urgent Alert re Clostridium difficile
• Expert Consulting Services for Members
• Upcoming Teleconferences
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• Certification Training
• Respiratory Protection Training
• Radiation Safety Training
• OSACH Handle with Care: Ergonomic Client Handling Training
• Featured Products
• OSACH Staff Directory

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• Changing Hand Hygiene Behaviour
• 2003 Recipient of OSACH Brian Burbridge Award
• OSACH Partners with Oxegen Inc.
• Engineering Out Needle Stick Injuries
• Protecting Young Workers
• OSACH Consultant Honoured
• Fit Testing Respirators: CSA Standard Z94.4-02
• OSACH Presents at ACE Event
• A $14 Million Health and Safety Commitment to
     Health Care Workers
• OSACH Participates in Wheels in Motion Challenge
• Are You Aware of Your WSIB Driven Resources?
• Low Back Care: Advice is plentiful, but worth taking?
• Upcoming Conferences
• Expert Consulting Services for Members
• Upcoming Teleconferences
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• Certification Training
• Respiratory Protection Training
• Radiation Safety Training
• OSACH Handle with Care: Ergonomic Client Handling Training
• Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG)
     "Clear Language" Regulations
• Featured Products
• OSACH Staff Directory

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• Personal Protective Equipment
• Introducing OSACH's Interim CEO
• Infection Control Issues in Long-Term and Community Care Pet Therapy Programs
• Designing a Radiation Safety Program
• How to Treat MRSA Outside of the Hospital Setting
• Group Home Fire Regulations Update
• The Joint Health and Safety Committee Terms of Reference
• News from WSIB
• 2003 OSACH Recognition Program Awards
• OSACH Brian Burbridge Award of Distinction Nomination Form
• Health and Safety Week 2003 Contest Winners
• 2004 Certification Training
• Respiratory Protection Training
• 2004 Teleconference Schedule
• Radiation Safety Training
• OSACH Handle with Care [Ergonomic Client Handling Training]
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• Health and Safety Week 2004 Contest

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• SARS and the Occupational Health Department
• Message from the CEO
• Will a Healthy Lifestyle Protect Me from Influenza?
• Is it SARS, or is it Influenza?
• Respiratory Protection Training Now Available
• Hand Hygiene in Health Care Settings
• Surgical Hand Antisepsis
• Managing Biomedical Waste in Ontario
• Zero Lift Program Proves to be Successful
• Protection from Exposure to Antineoplastic Drugs
• Ergonomics: Is Your Workplace Safe? 
• OSACH Develops Global Partnerships
• Small Businesses and the Occupational H&S Act
• Catch the Wave of Health and Safety
  [guide to our web site, www.osach.ca]
• 2002 Award of Distinction Winner
• 2003 Award of Distinction Nomination Form
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• Group Home Fire Safety Guidelines
• 2004 Certification Training Schedule/Registration
• Radiation Safety Training for Health Care Workers
• Ergonomic Client Handling Training

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• When you're hot, you're hot [heat stress]
• Developing and Maintaining a Safety Culture
• The Radiation Safety Officer
• Improper Sharps Disposal: Who Pays the Price?
• Managing Occupational Health and Safety Risks
• OSACH Partnerships
• Building a Partnership [between OSACH and IWH]
• OHA Joins WSIB Safety Groups Program
• Health and Safety Week Contest
• Wellness Word Search 
• OSACH Recognition Program 2001 - 2002 Winners
• Certification Training: Improving Your Workplace
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• 2003 Certification Training Schedule and Registration
• Radiation Safety in the Health Care Workplace
• OSACH Handle with Care: Client Handling Training Program
• 2003 Award of Distinction Nomination Form
• Important Dates in 2003

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• Young Workers in Health Care - what employers should do so that young workers know
• Don't Overlook Workplace Organizational Hazards - they are linked to safety performance
• Wellness for the Aging Workforce - maintaining happiness and productivity while decreasing health care costs
• Tuberculosis: infection control information for front line workers
• Cold Plating without Injury: touring a hospital food service belt line
• 2003 OSACH Teleconference Schedule
• Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• 2003 Certification Training Schedule
• Radiation Safety Training - available now from an OSACH partner organization
• OSACH Handle with Care: ergonomic client handling training programs now available from an OSACH partner organization 
• Due Diligence and Compliance: fines, penalties, and surcharges - employers, the choice is yours!
• OSACH Award of Distinction nomination form
• Important Dates in 2003

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• Viral Gastroenteritis
• Young Workers Need Better Protection
• Preventing Traffic Fatalities and Injuries
• Radiation in the Health Care Workplace
• Implementing a Laser Safety Program
• Conducting Effective Accident/Incident Investigations
• Does your JHSC Remain Compliant?
• OSACH Teleconferences 2002 - 2003
• OSACH Consultant Facilitated Workshops
• Certification Training Schedule for 2002 - 2003
• OSACH's New Recognition Program
• Health & Safety Week 2002 Contest

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• Group Home Fire Regulations
• Healthy Air, Healthy Workplaces [indoor air quality]
• Controlling Infectious Diseases in Day Care Centres
• Ergonomic Considerations in Constructing Long-Term Care Facilities
• 2001 Health & Safety Week Contest Winners
• 2002 Teleconference Schedule
• OSACH Featured Products
• OSACH Consultant-Facilitated Workshops
• 2002 Certification Training Schedule and Registration Form

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• Leading the way: Ontario Campaigns Against Influenza with universal immunization
• Health and Safety of the Pregnant Health Care Worker: New types of hazards for prospective parents
• Conducting Effective Workplace Inspections: Identifying hazards that can lead to injury and illness
• Walking Belts: the proper use of transfer devices
• Reducing the Incidence of Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly: Potential violent behaviour poses risks to caregivers
• Push and Pull Parameter Prevention: an important ergonomic health and safety issue [pushing and pulling carts and appliances]
• Keeping Young Workers Safe: Minimizing the danger in hazardous conditions
• 2002 Teleconference Schedule
• 2002 Certification Training Schedule and Registration Form

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• Antibiotic Resistant Organisms
• Getting to a Zero Lift Policy
• Let's CHAT about Health and Safety Success: injury reduction in a home assistance program
• Mission Accomplished: three years with no lost-time injuries
• Weather-Related Driving Tips
• The Health Care and Residential Facilities Regulation: to whom does it apply?
• Terms of Reference for the Joint Health and Safety Committee
• Safety Tips for Dietary Workers
• Prosthetic Laboratories: safety issues of isocyanate and polystyrene exposure
• Mold: a Biological Boarder

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• You Better Shape Up If You Are Going to Ship Out: the hazards and stresses of the shipper/receiver
• To Carpet Or Not To Carpet: effects on physical demands of health care workers
• Ladder Safety
• Needlestick Injuries: an overview of the teleconference
• Effects of Exposure to Anesthetic Gases
• Group homes: their special health and safety needs
• OSACH 2000 Annual Report
• 2001 Teleconferences
• Chemical Dispensing Systems: potential for danger
  Anger Management in the Workplace
• 2001 Certification Training Schedule

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• Shift Work: Detrimental Health Effects From Fighting Your Biological Clock
• Computer Ergonomics
• Occupational Exposure Limits: Ontario Update
• Crisis Intervention: preventing client-to-worker violence in youth group home settings
• Certification Training Schedule
• Leadership Awareness and Accountability: Training to Increase Health and Safety Focus
• Carpeting/soft flooring issues
• Preventing Back Injuries in Day Care
• Relief from Back Pain

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• Implementing a Workplace Violence Prevention Program
• Employers Contract Away Services, Not Responsibility for Worker Safety
• Upcoming Teleconferences
• NAOSH Week 2000 Contest Winners
• Certification Training 2001
• Scabies - I've got you under my skin
• Ontario Makes Free Flu Vaccine Available to Public
  Influenza Vaccination for the 2000/2001 Season
• How Do You Know When the Flu Becomes an Outbreak?
• Provincial Training
• Microwave Safety: Boiling Water
• Asbestos
• Darkroom Disease
• Ontario Adopts More Protective Occupational Exposure Limits
• Giving Thanks for a Safe Turkey Dinner [safe food preparation]
• Driving Safety for Community-Based Health Care Providers
• Carpeting and Soft Flooring Health and Safety Issues

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• Health Care Specific WHMIS Video
• Benchmarking Reference Manual
• NAOSH-OSACH Health and Safety Week
• OSACH Offering Basic and Three Workplace-Specific Hazard Certification Training Programs
• OSACH Teleconference: "The Internal Responsibility System (and Due Diligence)"
• Ceiling Lifts Reduce Nurse Injuries, Improve Client Comfort at Bloorview MacMillan
• 1999 OSACH Annual Report
• The Y2K Bug Was Really Influenza A
• Enhancements to Workwell: Comparison of Old vs New Policies
• Eyes are Worth Protecting
• New WSIB Reporting Obligations for Employers

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• Helping Organizations to Battle Bugs [infection control]
• Winter Safety
• Fragrance Sensitivity
• Fire Code Retrofit Requirements for Health Care Facilities
• The Aging Health Care Worker
• Organizational Factors & Workplace Safety Excellence
• How Job Strain Factors Relate to Injuries

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• Health and Safety Week Contest Winners
• What is a OSACH Member/Client Organization?
• Acute Care Workplace Specific Hazard Certification
• Community Care Workplace Specific Hazard Certification
• Conference Update
• Benchmarking: Focus on Rate Group 853 (Hospitals)
• Injuries Among OSACH Rate Groups
• Pilot Prevention Project for Group Homes
• Influenza Vaccinations
• Products/Resources/Research
  

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• OSACH Health and Safety Week Kit
• Confidentiality of Worker Health Records
• Certification Update
• Benchmarking: Focus on Rate Group 852 (Homes for Residential Care)
• Emergency Department Preparation for Receiving a Patient with Radiological Contamination
• 1998 Annual Report
• Influenza Pandemic
• Y2K Auditing and Contingency Planning
• Preparing for Hot Weather Conditions
• Conference Update
  

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• Certification Training
• Recognizing Excellence in Workplace Health
• Benchmarking: Focus on Rate Group 851 (Homes for Nursing Care)
• Conference Update
• Y2K Update
• Products/Resources
  

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• An interview with OSACH Executive Director/CEO Brian Burbridge
• Consultant Roster
• Statistical Profile of Accidents, Surcharges, and Assessment Rates in Health Care Facilities
• Meet Our Board of Directors