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OHS Answers Fact Sheets – Violence in the Workplace

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  • Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

SOURCE
  • Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

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  • TTool

TARGET AREA
  • Implementation

TARGET UNIT
  • Human Resources, Occupational Health and Safety

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OHS Answers Fact Sheets – Violence in the Workplace

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
This resource is an extensive fact sheet from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety on preventing violence in the workplace.The resourceincludes information on what work-related factors increase the risk of violence, elements to help recognize if the workplace is at risk, what can be done to prevent violence in the workplace, and examples of preventive measures.

What can I do to prevent violence in my workplace?

According to CCOHS, the most important component of any workplace violence prevention program is management commitment communicated through a written policy. The policy should:

  • Be developed by management and employees’ representatives, and apply to management, employees, clients, independent contractors, and anyone who has a relationship with your organization.
  • Define what workplace violence means in concrete language and provide clear examples of unacceptable behaviour and working conditions.
  • State in clear terms the organization’s commitment towards workplace violence and the consequences of violent acts.
  • Outline confidential processes to report incidents, encourage reporting, and ensure no reprisals.
  • Establish procedures to investigate and resolve complaints and commit to support victims.
  • Commit to fulfill violence prevention training to all personnel.

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Including Gender Issues in Risk Assessment

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

SOURCE
  • European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • GGuide

TARGET AREA
  • Risk Management, Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources, Occupational Health and Safety

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Including Gender Issues in Risk Assessment

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
This guide provides a model for making risk assessment more gender-sensitive byfocusingon five stages of risk assessment and recommending how to include gender in each of them.

  1. Hazard Identification – include gender by:
  • Considering hazards prevalent in both male- and female-dominated jobs
  • Considering the entire workforce without forgetting part-time, temporary, and those employees on leave
  • Encouraging women to report issues
  1. Risk assessment – include gender by:
  • Not making assumptions based only on job description or title
  • Involving women in risk assessment
  • Including gender in stress, reproductive health, and musculoskeletal disorders assessments
  1. Implementation of solutions – include gender by:
  • Aiming to eliminate risks at source, to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all employees
  • Involving women in decisionmaking and implementation of solutions
  • Ensuring all genders are provided with OHS information and training relevant to their jobs

4 & 5.  Monitoring and Review – include gender by:

  • Keeping up to date with new information about gender-related occupational health issues
  • Recording occupational health issues and accidents

 

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10 Keys for Gender Sensitive OSH Practice – Guidelines for Mainstreaming in Occupational Health and Safety

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

SOURCE
  • International Labour Office

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Institutional Policies, Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources, Occupational Health and Safety

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10 Keys for Gender Sensitive OSH Practice - Guidelines for Mainstreaming in Occupational Health and Safety

International Labour Office
These guidelines help organizations take a gender-sensitive approach to mainstreaming gender into occupational safety and health policies and practices to provide a safer workplace for both women and men. The resource helps integrate gender issues into analyses, formulation, and monitoring of policies, programs, and preventive measures to reduce inequalities between women and men.

  1. Taking a gender mainstreaming approach to reviewing and developing OSH legislation
  2. Developing OSH policies to address gender inequalities in OSH practice
  3. Ensuring consideration of gender differences in risk management
  4. OSH research should properly take into account gender differences
  5. Developing gender-sensitive OSH indicators based on sex-disaggregated data
  6. Promoting equal access to occupational health services and health care for all workers
  7. Ensuring the participation of both women and men workers and their representatives in OSH measures, health promotion, and decision making
  8. Developing gender-sensitive OSH information, education, and training about the differences in the way women and men may be exposed to risks at work
  9. Designing work equipment, tools, and personal protective equipment for both men and women
  10. Working time arrangements and work-life balance

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OHS Answers Fact Sheets – Canadian Government Departments Responsible for OH&S

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

SOURCE
  • Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • LLegislation

TARGET AREA
  • Canadian Legislation, Development

TARGET UNIT
  • Human Resources, Legal, Occupational Health and Safety

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OHS Answers Fact Sheets – Canadian Government Departments Responsible for OH&S

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
This resource provides a list of all agencies responsible for occupational health and safety in the federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions across Canada. The 14 jurisdictions in Canada – one federal, 10 provincial, and three territorial – each have their own occupational health and safety (OH&S) legislation. The federal health and safety legislation applies to employees of the federal government, including Crown agencies and corporations across Canada, as well as employees of federally regulated companies or sectors that operate across provincial or international borders.

Approximately 6 percent of the Canadian workforce falls under the OH&S jurisdiction of the federal government. The remaining 94 percent of Canadian workers fall under the legislation of the province or territory where they work.

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