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Section V: Other Items of Interest

Annex 1: Listing of Statutes and Regulations

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act (R.S. 1985, c. C-13)

Annex 2: Publications

The following reports are available at: http://www.ccohs.ca/ccohs/reports.html

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Annual Reports

Departmental Performance Reports

Program Evaluation and Cost Recovery Study: Assessing the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety,2001

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - Modern Management Practices Assessment

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - Modern Comptrollership Action Plan

Customer Satisfaction Research Report,2004

CCOHS 2005 Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement Study

Annex 3: Government-wide and Horizontal Initiatives

Modern Comptrollership

CCOHS strongly supports the integration of comptrollership modernization principles in our implementation of Modern Comptrollership http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/cmo_mfc/index-eng.asp . The capacity assessment and action plan were completed in 2002. The capacity assessment has been conducted to establish baselines which progress can be measured and determines areas requiring attention. The details of these plans can be found at: http://www.ccohs.ca/ccohs/reports.html.

Government On-Line

Government On-Line (GOL) http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/gol-ged/index-eng.asp is the federal government's multi-year project to provide Canadians with electronic Internet access to federal information and services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The program's goals are to improve service delivery to Canadians, to increase citizens' participation in government, to make the government more transparent and responsive to Canadians, and to spur Canada's participation in the global e-commerce market place.

CCOHS has been proactive in the development of its Internet presence to deliver its programs and services on line for many years. Our website at www.ccohs.ca allows for instant access to information and e-mail access to services. Products and services can also be obtained on line through our e-commerce site. The CCOHS Internet site has extensive information available to a broad range of users and acts as a portal to several collaborative websites that makes information from all Canadian jurisdictions and many international resources instantly available to Canadians. The common look and feel guidelines have also been implemented http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf-nsi/index-eng.asp for CCOHS' website.

Annex 4: Strategic Priorities

Our Mission

Our mission is to be the Canadian Centre of excellence for work-related injury and illness prevention initiatives and occupational health and safety information.

Governance

CCOHS is governed and directed by a tripartite Council of Governors comprised of members from labour, business and government leaders representing their respective constituents across Canada. The Council meets three times a year to review policy and monitor the progress of CCOHS.

In January 1997, the Council adopted the following set of guiding principles for the Centre's future, which have been supported by federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for occupational health and safety:

Guiding Principles

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act allows the Centre to undertake a broad range of activities "to promote the fundamental right of Canadians to a healthy and safe working environment".

The Council of Governors intends these principles to guide the Centre for the short to mid term and to allow for continued growth in cost-recovery.

1. The Council reconfirms its support and commitment to the CCOHS and the valuable role the Centre provides to Canada's workers and employers. Further, the Council recognizes the importance of its tripartite nature in governing the Centre.

   The Centre is to continue to serve as a source of excellence for unbiased technical information and expertise to support labour, employers, and governments in maintaining safe and healthy workplaces.

   The Centre is to continue to provide critical analysis and interpretation of occupational safety and health information.

   Further, the three caucuses recognize the critical importance of maintaining a free inquiry service to support the right of working Canadians to a healthy and safe working environment.

2. The Council and the Centre shall communicate to respective Ministers regarding the excellence and role of the Centre in order to obtain broad public policy support and guidance.
3. The Council recognizes the high standard and non-partisan nature of the Centre's undertakings. It recommends the Centre continue in its consulting and research efforts, while meeting the test of fairness in a competitive world. Joint funding of projects that target key areas of information needs should be a special focus of these efforts.

   The Council urges all governments and other organizations to consider the Centre as a potential source of consulting and research services.

4. The Council urges governmental and non-governmental organizations, including labour and employers, to work in partnership with the Centre to provide public access to the Centre's CD-ROM, Internet and other services.
5. The Council recommends the Centre consider the future possibility of gathering and disseminating occupational health and safety statistical information.
6. The Council recognizes that the Centre has become a national repository for MSDS, and efforts to encourage companies to continue to supply data sheets to the Centre will continue, where practicable and feasible.
7. The Council recommends that health and safety materials are available in the form most useful to the user, including hard copy.
8. The Council encourages the development of partnerships, tailored to specific jurisdictions, that enhance the visibility and distribution of CCOHS information. This could also include co-operation between various government inquiry services.
9. The Council recommends that jurisdictions and others systematically provide all technical, research, guidelines, codes of practice, and best practices to the Centre.

CCOHS Council of Governors holds strategic planning meetings approximately every three years to focus on the future direction of CCOHS. In its latest session in 2005, the Council reaffirmed the above guiding principles. They also agreed to focus on the following priorities:

• keep focused on "serving as a national center for information related to occupational health and safety". Continue to offer valued and needed information.
• Keep offering our core products and services. This includes continuing to improve products and services so they remain useful and relevant for Canadian workplaces and workers.
• Become the national center for statistics on occupational health and safety.
• Continue to promote health and safety in the workplace in Canada, including the physical and mental health of working people.

 

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