This resource list was created by Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSHSA) to support clients as they work through the Ministry of Labour’s Healthcare Sector Plan as well as the various initiatives scheduled.
The resource list contains a selection of useful materials to assist organizations with awareness and compliance regarding all of the major hazards and key health and safety priorities listed in the Healthcare Sector Plan.
For your reference, the following documents can be found on the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development’s website:
Should you have any questions or comments regarding the resource list, please contact communications@pshsa.ca.
Vulnerable Workers (including New and Young Workers)
Fast Fact:
Tools:
- Seven Step Assessment for New and Young Workers
- Co-Op Education Quiz
- New Worker Health & Safety Checklist
- Community Care: A Tool to Reduce Workplace Hazards
Infections and Infectious Diseases
Tools:
Fast Facts:
Training:
Workplace Violence
Handbooks:
- Addressing Domestic Violence in the Workplace
- Assessing Violence in the Community
- Bullying in the Workplace
Fast Facts:
Posters:
Tools:
Training:
Transportation Hazards (including Motor Vehicle Incidents)
Fast Fact:
Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) specific to non-client-handling
Fast Facts:
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Participatory Ergonomics
- Repetitive Work
- How Does My Back Work?
- How Much Can You Lift?
Training:
Tools:
MSD specific to client handling (lifting, transferring and re-positioning patients/residents/clients)
Fast Facts:
Posters:
Competent Supervision
Fast Fact:
Training:
- Effective Leadership Book 1: Legislation, Standards and Codes
- Effective Leadership Book 2: The Internal Responsibility System and Due Diligence
- Effective Leadership Book 3: Hazard Awareness and Control
- Effective Leadership Book 4: Incident/Event Causation and Investigation
- Effective Leadership Book 5: Practical Approaches to PSHSA Effective Leadership – Moving Beyond Compliance
- Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness
Ontario Ministry of Labour
Occupational Illnesses and Diseases
Fast Fact:
Ontario Health Clinic for Ontario Workers and Public Services Health and Safety Association: Work-related Asthma in Health Care Workers
Ventilation maintenance and monitoring
Exposures to hazardous biological, chemical and physical agents
Fast Facts:
- Radiation: Awareness for Health Care Workers
- Radiation: Regulation and Application in Health Care Settings
Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease (CRE-OD)
Inspections will focus on a workplace’s compliance with the OHSA and its regulations, including, but not limited to the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System Regulation (Reg. 860), X-Ray Safety Regulation (Reg. 861) Designated Substances Regulation (O. Reg. 490/09), Control of Exposure to Biological or Chemical Agents Regulation (Reg. 833), and O. Reg. 67/93, which addresses anaesthetic gases and antineoplastic drugs in sections 96 and 97, respectively.
Antineoplastic drugs and other hazardous drugs
- ASSTSAS – Prevention Guide – Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Alert – Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and other Hazardous Drugs in Health care Settings
- NIOSH – List of Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health care Settings 2012
CDC
- Personal Protective Equipment for Health Care Workers Who Work with Hazardous Drugs
- Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare
Needle and Sharps Safety
Resource Guides:
Fast Facts:
- Requirement for Physicians to Use Safety-Engineered Needles
- Safe Handling & Disposal of Sharps & Medical Supplies in Home Health Settings
Ontario Regulation
Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
Fast Fact:
Asbestos
Fast Facts:
Training:
Common Industrial Hazards
Fast Fact:
Training:
- Confined Space Entry Regulation 632/05
- Confined Space Rescue NFA Awareness Level
- Confined Space Rescue NFPA Level 1 and 2 Combined Levels
- Asbestos Awareness eLearning
Loading Dock Safety
Fast Facts:
Ontario Ministry of Labour
- Safe at Work Ontario – Loading Dock Safety Practices
- Loading Dock Safety
- Blitz Results Loading Dock Safety
Construction Hazards
Fast Facts:
- Risk Assessment and Job Hazard Analysis
- Beat the Heat: Preventing, Identifying and Treating Heat-Related Disorders
- Noise Exposure
Emergency Management (preparedness, response and recovery)
Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
Internal Responsibility System (IRS)
Fast Facts:
- Physicians’ OHS Roles and Responsibilities
- An Introduction to the JHSC
- Health and Safety Management Systems
- How to Investigate an Incident
- Caught in the Middle: the Supervisor and Occupational Health and Safety
- Occupational Illness: Requirements to Report to the Ministry of Labour
- The Leadership Factor: Occupational Health and Safety Starts with Us
- Occupational Health and Safety is Everyone’s Business
- Workplace Inspection Report
- Employee Incident Report
Training:
- Certification Part 1
- Certification Part 2
- Effective Leadership Book 1: Legislation, Standards and Codes
- Effective Leadership Book 2: The Internal Responsibility System and Due Diligence
- Effective Leadership Book 3: Hazard Awareness and Control
- Effective Leadership Book 4: Incident/Event Causation and Investigation
- Effective Leadership Book 5: Practical Approaches to PSHSA Effective Leadership – Moving Beyond Compliance
- Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness
- H&S for Managers
- Workplace Inspections
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
Posters:
Training:
Webinar:
The Ontario Ministry of Labour
- WHMIS: A Guide to the Legislation
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System Regulation (Reg. 860)
