Tips for Shift Workers
Shift work robs most workers of a decent day's sleep and affects their overall health. This fact sheet offers information on dealing with the ill effects of shift work.
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Source: Health Care Health and Safety Association |
Type: Fact Sheet |
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Hand Washing: Spread Protection Not Infection
| Most people do not wash their hands as often as they should. The best defense against the spread of infection is healthy intact skin and good hand washing technique. This document provides six steps to hand washing. |
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Source: Health Care Health and Safety Association |
Type: Fact Sheet |
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Best Practice and Reinvestment Strategy Create a Winning Cycle of Improvement (Ontario Hospital Association)
| See how the award winning Best Practice Project involving the re-investment in patient handling equipment yields investment returns, increases productivity and reduces direct and indirect WSIB costs. |
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Source: Ontario Hospital Association |
Type: Workplace Best Practice |
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Protecting Health Care Workers From Infectious Diseases: A Self-Assessment Tool
| Ths self-assessment tool will assist health care organizations address the legislated requirements under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act and establish best practices in occupational health and safety as recommended in the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's 2004 report on SARS and infectious disease control, For the Public's Health: A Plan of Action. |
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Source: HCHSA |
Type: Tools |
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To the Point: Get the Facts About Sharps Injury Prevention
| This guide book gives all the facts about sharps injury prevention and provides information for workers and employers surrounding the risks, prevention, employer strategies, and the law. |
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Source: HCHSA |
Type: Guideline |
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Pandemic Planning
| The Pandemic Planning site on the CCOHS web site provides helpful, informative documents and tools to help build an essential and effective pandemic prevention and response plan. |
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Source: CCOHS |
Type: Tools |
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Canadian Pandemic Planner for the Health Sector
| The Planner provides guidelines for a wide range of health-related activities, from monitoring the spread of a virus, even before it reaches Canada, to using the most effective vaccines and medicines to decrease illness. It offers a national public health approach to preparing for an influenza pandemic in Canada. |
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Source: Public Health Agency of Canada |
Type: Guideline |
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