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PSAC North Regional Council

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, theunion, 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.

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/

Stop workplace violence

April 24, 2017 - 10:23am •

Stop workplace violence PSAC's "Stop workplace violence" content aims to raise awareness about workplace violence and bullying in the workplace. The following are concrete tools for workers and union leaders to identify and address workplace violence: Toolkit

Asbestos in Yukon: Keeping Track and Staying Safe

March 1, 2017 - 2:22pm •

Submitted by Dianne Williams - Chair, PSAC Yukon Health & Safety Committee

Together for Safety: safety perception survey for Whitehorse women and girls

November 7, 2016 - 9:32am •

In the eye of a hurricane: stories from Haiti

October 24, 2016 - 9:35am •

Treasury Board, PSAC strike groundbreaking mental health deal

March 31, 2015 - 5:13pm •

Nunavut Regional Health and Safety Committee Annual General Meeting

December 11, 2014 - 1:59pm •

Join us for the PSAC Nunavut Regional Occupational Health and Safetry Committee Annual General Meeting!January 14th, PSAC BoardroomBuilding #1412, Iqaluit NU7:30 p.m. ESTTHERE WILL BE FOOD FOR ALL AND DOOR PRIZES TO BE WON!COME SUPPORT YOUR PSAC REGIONAL OH&S COMMITTEE!YOU ARE WELCOME TO ASK QUESTIONS, SHARE INFORMATION AND TO FIND

Push for stronger Health and Safety Regulations

September 25, 2014 - 10:04am •

Every employee should have the right to feel safe when they go to work every day.That’s why the Safety Advisory Committee helped draft better language to protect workers with new Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.But the draft regulations have been collecting dust on the desks of both territorial ministers since 2011, and every year more workers die on the job because of it.

Have a say in your workplace: Apply with the Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission

July 30, 2014 - 9:45am •

The Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC) is currently seeking expressions of interest from persons interested in joining their new Stakeholder Engagement Committee (SEC).The SEC provides timely input to the WSCC, to facilitate policy creating, decision making, and program delivery. The Committee Chairperson, internal to the WSCC, calls upon SEC Members to provide valuable feedback.