canadian center for occupational health and safety
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Web Surfing
Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety
www.ccohs.ca
The Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) was established to eliminate work-related illnesses and injuries. The Web site has many links to many information sources. One of its very useful links is to “Education & Train-
ing” (www.ccohs.ca/education) which brings you to a menu of courses, webinars & con-ferences, presentations, etc. Courses (www.ccohs.ca/products/courses/course_listing.html) cover a variety of e-learning materials—free and subscribed—with quality mate-rials. As an example, one of the free courses entitled “Occupational and Environmen-tal Cancer: Recognition and Prevention” available at www.ccohs.ca/products/courses/prevent_cancer is very informative for primary care physicians. Using courses needs free registration.
Another useful link is to the ChemIndex database (www.ccohs.ca/products/databas-es/chemindex.html) which is a convenient tool for finding information on over 200 000
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distinct chemical substances in the CCOHS database collection. “OSH Links” is another extensive resource that can be used to find Web sites covering occupational health and safety subjects. It is grouped by subject, region, industry and resource type and is avail-able at www.ccohs.ca/oshlinks. “Pandemic Planning” site (www.ccohs.ca/pandemic) has several helpful free documents and tools to find out more information on different aspects of pandemic attacks. It includes free relevant webinars, e-courses, podcasts and articles.
A free information service provided by the CCOHS is also available at www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers to users. You may ask all your questions relevant to occupational health and safety online. On this Web site, you can also find issues on biological hazards, safety, leg-islations, etc. Although this Web site is very informative, as expected, some of the issues mentioned (e.g., legislations) are specific to Canada.
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