OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
 

Health Care eNews from WorkSafe BC     Ontario nurses urge Prime Minister Harper to reverse decision to eliminate long-form census questionnaire Ontario nurses are adding their voices to the many organizations protesting the federal government's decision to do away with the long-form census survey Statistics Canada administers every five years.     Protect Us from Assaults, Say Psych Nurses Few people go to work and get spit on, bitten or verbally threatened by the people they work for. You'd have to be a cop. A correctional officer. A fetishist.     Political wolf in phony clothing When economists agree with Mr. Krueger he flies the flag and, at every opportunity, salutes it, but when they disagree it’s fear mongering and “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”     H1N1 immunization campaign prevented deaths, hospitalizations: Study Nearly one million cases of H1N1 and 52 deaths due to human swine flu were prevented in Ontario alone by the controversial mass immunization campaign, according to new Canadian research.     Nurse prof. speaks out for supervised injection site in Victoria Supervised injection services are a health-care service. Insite in Vancouver was established under an exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which was required at the time so that research could be done to determine the effectiveness of supervised injection services.     RSI Awareness Repetitive Strain Injury Information     Denmark compensates women who developed cancer on night shift Studies suggest that women who work at night over many years, such as flight attendants, are more prone to breast cancer.     Summer Safety Everyone at WorkSafeBC wishes you and your family a safe, healthy summer. Please share these safety tips – and have fun!