{"id":1390,"date":"2011-04-08T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:06:01","slug":"north-american-occupational-safety-and-health-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/north-american-occupational-safety-and-health-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What is North American Occupational Safety and Health Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North American Occupational Safety and Health Week (NAOSHW)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first week of each May is set aside, North American-wide, to focus employers, employees, partners and the public on occupational health and safety.\u00a0 NAOSHW brings awareness to the importance of preventing injury and illness \u2013 in the workplace, at home and in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, 32 Nova Scotians died and 7,200 were hurt while on the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0We want workplace health and safety to be forever on the minds of each and every person.\u00a0\u00bb said Labour and Workforce Development Minister Marilyn More.\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0Any workplace death or injury is one too many,\u00a0\u00bb said Ms. More.<\/p>\n<p>NAOSHW was first launched in June 1997, marked by an agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.\u00a0 Using the Canadian Occupational Health &amp; Safety Week (COHW) as the foundation, NAOSHW became a landmark cornerstone of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NAOSHW is an excellent opportunity to reiterate legislated safety policy and programming including:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your Corporate Safety Statement<\/li>\n<li>the function and composition of your Joint Occupational Health &amp; Safety Committee (JOHS)<\/li>\n<li>the importance of accident \/ incident \/ near miss reporting and your Accident Investigation program<\/li>\n<li>your Workplace Hazardous Materials System program<\/li>\n<li>your Housekeeping Inspection Program<\/li>\n<li>your Prevention of Violence in the Workplace program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on occupational health and safety in Nova Scotia and how to protect yourself at work everyday, visit the department&rsquo;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.ns.ca\/lwd\/healthandsafety\">www.gov.ns.ca\/lwd\/healthandsafety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should you require assistance understanding your employer obligations around health and safety programming please contact Sylvain at <a href=\"mailto:sylvain@hr-pros.ca\">sylvain@hr-pros.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North American Occupational Safety and Health Week (NAOSHW) The first week of each May is set aside, North American-wide, to focus employers, employees, partners and the public on occupational health and safety.\u00a0 NAOSHW brings awareness to the importance of preventing injury and illness \u2013 in the workplace, at home and in the community.\u00a0 In 2009, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,140,37],"tags":[43,5,38,62],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employee-policies","category-human-resources","category-safety","tag-business","tag-human-resources","tag-naosh","tag-occupational-health-and-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}