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ETFO occupational health and safety committee meets twice at the provincial office. Committee continues to raise the profile of health and safety among members. ETFO's first health and safety conference, entitled Emerging health and safety issues, took place in 2007.
ETFO occupational health and safety committee meets twice at the provincial office. Committee continues to raise the profile of health and safety among members. ETFO's first health and safety conference, entitled Emerging health and safety issues, took place in 2007.
ETFO occupational health and safety committee meets twice at the provincial office. Committee continues to raise the profile of health and safety among members. ETFO's first health and safety conference, entitled Emerging health and safety issues, took place in 2007.
REPORT TO THE 2008 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE
Terms of Reference
To advise and make recommendations to the Executive on health and safety issues. To make recommendations to the Executive to raise member awareness of health and safety issues in schools. To promote member participation in health and safety training. To provide assistance to the health and safety representatives who sit on joint occupational health and safety committees.
Committee Members
Ken Gee Limestone Occasional Teacher Local, Chairperson Lesly Kapush Lakehead Teacher Local Marianne Samuel Elementary Teachers of Toronto Local Colin Wackett York Region Teacher Local Valence Young Renfrew County Teacher Local Susan Ansara Staff Liaison
Committee Activities for 2007-2008
The ETFO Occupational Health and Safety Committee met twice at the provincial office on December 7, 2007, and on February 29 and March 1, 2008.
For the 2007-2008 school year the committee continues to raise the profile of health and safety among members.
ETFOs first Health and Safety Conference, entitled Emerging Health and Safety Issues an ETFO Health and Safety Provincial Conference, took place on Friday evening November 9, and Saturday, November 10, 2007. The conference participants were members from various teacher and OT locals. The conference had a number of presenters, along with ETFO provincial office staff, bringing the total attendance to eighty-three. The keynote address was presented by ETFOs legal counsel, Howard Goldblatt. Topics during the conference included Key Components of Joint Health and Safety Committees (JHSC) Terms of Reference, Mould Investigation and Remediation and Violence in the Workplace.
A Level II Committee and Level II Law, Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) scholarship training session took place from February 3 rd to the 15 th , 2008, and one ETFO member took advantage of this training.
Page 2 of 2 In an effort to increase ETFOs pool of female members with Level I and Level II WHSC Health and Safety training, thirty-seven women members from a number of teacher and OT locals took advantage of this training. The workshops ran from October 2007 to J une 2008. This will qualify these members to take advantage of WHSC instructor training in the future.
In J une, ETFO will be sending three health and safety instructors to a three-day Workers Health and Safety Centre (WHSC) instructor scholarship conference.
Recommendations to the 2008 Annual Meeting
1. That locals be encouraged through their J oint Occupational Health and Safety Committee to develop an Indoor Air Quality policy.
2. That locals be encouraged through their J oint Occupational Health and Safety Committee to develop a mould protocol.
3. That ETFO lobby the Minister of Labour to cease its practice of disbanding multi- site J oint Occupational Health and Safety Committees when worker members on the committee opposed this move.
4. That ETFO, through CTF, petition the Federal government to request a ban on the export of chrysotile asbestos; just transitions for mining communities; the development of a national registry for asbestos related disease; the development of a national asbestos policy; and a review of both measurement technology and threshold limits for asbestos in the workplace