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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 – in the workplace, at home and in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0All Nova Scotians should be able to go to work knowing they are safe from injury and illness on the job,\u00a0\u00bb said Mark Parent, Minister of Labour and Workforce Development. \u00ab\u00a0Safety needs to be a priority, not just during North American Occupational Safety and Health Week, but every week of the year.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
In 2008, 29 Nova Scotians died and 8,050 were hurt while on the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NAOSHW was first launched in June 1997, marked by an agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.\u00a0 Using the Canadian Occupational Health & Safety Week (COHW) as the foundation, NAOSHW became a landmark cornerstone of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).\u00a0<\/p>\n
NAOSHW is an excellent opportunity to reiterate legislated safety policies and programming including:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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For more information on occupational health and safety in Nova Scotia and how to protect yourself at work everyday, visit the department’s website at www.gov.ns.ca\/lwd\/healthandsafety<\/a><\/p>\n Should you require assistance building your safety programming and internal safety responsibility system please contact HR pros<\/strong> by using the contact form<\/a>\u00a0on the contact page.\u00a0 Tanya has a strong background in safety, having spent a number of years in the mining and manufacturing industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 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 – in the workplace, at home and in the community.\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0All Nova Scotians should be able to go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,37],"tags":[5,38,138,39,41],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-corporate-training","category-safety","tag-human-resources","tag-naosh","tag-safety","tag-wcb","tag-whmis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t