Important information for the summer season
Is it too hot and/or humid for you to continue working? This table will tell you if it is.
Health and Safety bargaining proposals
The PSAC National Capital Region Health and Safety Committee recommends to Locals NCR interested in Occupational Health and Safety issues bring forward these bargaining proposals to their Component for the next round of TBS and other Separate Employers bargaining process. Posted 16-Oct-2006
Unveiling of the Bélanger-Thériault Monument
On September 7, 2006, Henri Massé, president of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), unveiled a monument evoking the memory of two workers gunned down in October 1906 by detectives hired by the Maclaren company. Dozens of unions, including the PSAC and the AEU, helped in the financing of the monument. Background...
"Support for members working at Parliament Hill, the Solidarity demo"- update!
Over 200 people gathered June 6, 2006, following a Press Conference organized by the PSAC where the Government of Canada was pressed to take action to redress the lack of health and safety legislation for Parliamentary and Senate workers (PSAC members).
Pictures of the event are available.
Many speakers such as Patty Ducharme, PSAC's Vice President, reminded the enthusiastic crowd that ‘'it's time that Parliament Hill workers have the same rights to health and safety protection as other Canadian workers. The PSAC has filed a claim to the Ontario Superior Court today based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The objective of this legal claim is to force, through the Tribunals, the Canadian Government to proclaim a law voted 20 years ago by Parliament. For more information.
Health & Safety Conference,
January 28-29, 2006
"Healthy Workplace and
Psychological Impacts". View the Presentations.
Determination of Net Revenue - CSST Benefit Modifications
The details.
Health and Safety NEWS
Regulations Amending the Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (Hazard Prevention Program, Part XIX). The regulations were approved on November 28, 2005, and appear in the December 14, 2005, edition of the Canada Gazette Part II (see volume 139, no 25, pages 3094 to 3101). The details.
The PSAC Health and
Safety Committee in the National Capital Region is currently
recruiting new members.
Our region has a group
of members who have been trained to facilitate courses and information
sessions. The president of the Committe is Barb Stewart, (598-2224
barb-stewart@sympatico.ca or barb.stewart@ccra-adrc.gc.ca). These
facilitators are grass root members of our union who feel that
the membership has a right to be informed of the issues affecting
them. Therefore, they have made a commitment to provide training
and information sessions of interest to the members of our union.
Read a message from the Committee.
One area where training is very
important is in health and safety. In our region we are lucky
enough to have members who have taken a keen interest in health
and safety issues. They have training and experience in this very
important field.
We offer a wide range of health
and safety courses ranging from general courses to information
modules on specific topics. These courses and modules last from
3 hours to 30 hours. The topics they cover include health and
safety law, the role of committees, effects of chemicals on the
body, stress, WHMIS, cancer, indoor air quality, ergonomics, and
many others. Consult your PSAC education
schedule for information on what courses are being offered.
We believe that it is important
to get health and safety information out to as many members as
possible. Therefore, if a local wants an information session to
address a topic of concern to its members, we will do our best
to do so. For more information on setting up a local information
session, contact Dominic
Lavoie by email at lavoied@psac-afpc.com,
or call the Gatineau
Regional Office at (819)
777-4647.
We now have facilitators who can
deliver this information in French. We urge members who would
like this information delivered in French to watch the education
schedule for the
next course to be offered in French or to contact the Gatineau
Regional Office
at (819) 777-4647.
The committee will
meet in the Gatineau Regional office at 200 Promenade du Portage,
level 200, Room A310 or Ottawa Regional office at 15 Holland Avenue
from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Dates will be provided on the events
calendar.
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