Web Links

Check out this site to learn more about ergonomics in different careers.

The I Promise Program is designed to reduce the risk of youth related car crashes, injuries and deaths and is available to all parents and teens for free. Check out the site to print a free Parent-Youth Safe Driving Contract.

P.A.R.T.Y. is an acronym, which stands for Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth. Visit this website to find out about this innovative Canadian program that teaches youth how to make smart choices in life.

Canada's only young worker web site providing a portal to sites and resources offered by provincial, territory and national jurisdictions.

The IRSST's scientific activities are concentrated in seven research fields: accidents, chemical substances and biological agents, musculoskeletal disorders, noise and vibration, protective equipment, occupational rehabilitation, safety of industrial tools, machines and processes. Click the link for IRSST youth resources.

Human Resources Development Canada provides a bilingual web site that promotes fair, safe, healthy and stable work environments for Canadians. It provides access to workplace information, labour affairs and mediation services. From the English link you can go directly to the French site.

The Youth Path site allows interaction with a virtual reality teen who supplies the user with information about programs and services available to youth. The site also contains articles of the month, "Cool Links" and a list of teen oriented publications.

This site provides up to date fatality and prosecution reports, it helps workers understand workplace regulations and legislation and provides access to useful publications.

Alberta has created an easy to use site that bring together everything a young worker needs to know about their workplace. It suggests questions they should ask their employers, tips for teens and young worker Employment Standards.

The Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia has created a WorkSafe site to answer all workplace questions. It provides updated news and events and helps workers to understand their Health and Safety and Employment Standards rights.

This young worker site is equipped with injury prevention resources, industry profiles, statistics and commonly asked questions. It also provides updates on new publications, forums and young worker workplace injuries.

The Manitoba Labour and Immigration Board provides useful links for all workers. Each link provides a brief description of the type of information the section contains. This site is bilingual.

French version of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission site.

This New Brunswick Commission has brought workplace health and safety together into three easy to understand groups - Prevention (Occupational health and safety), Employer Assessments and Compensation and rehabilitation. It also supplies quick links to what's new, different types of legislations and what to do if you are injured at work.

Newfoundland has created a site that not only provides useful links for both employers and workers, but also supplies them with current news and events, legislation and a resource centre to help unemployed workers find work.

This site discusses young workers, their risk of injury and how to prevent them. It supplies informative links for both workers and employers, safety tips, health and safety training and suggests different health and safety careers.

This unique young worker site was created by the construction program. It provides an occupational database, answers questions, suggests career paths, allows the youth to watch a commerial or industrial building being developed and also provides an occupational health and safety interactive game.

Nova Scotia's Environment and Labour department works to protect employment rights, healthy environments and consumer interests. This site includes emergency numbers, legislation, information,different types of services and current news releases.

One of Nova Scotia's young worker sites informs youth on what they need to know about their job, it helps prepare them for work with advice and pertinant information, it also provides training advice and makes them aware of what could happen in their workplace.

The Ministry of Labour offers this unique site with both heatlh and safety and employment standards resources for Ontario youth.

Based on the popular Young Worker Awareness program, this youth-oriented web site provides advice, facts and true stories of youth injured on the job.

PEI's goal of protecting employers and injured workers has allowed Prince Edward Island to create a website that informs both workers and employers about preventative measures. It also gives them access to Acts and Regulations and allows them to purchase useful publications.

The IRSST's scientific activities are concentrated in seven research fields: accidents, chemical substances and biological agents, musculoskeletal disorders, noise and vibration, protective equipment, occupational rehabilitation, safety of industrial tools, machines and processes.
More than 1 000 research reports are available for free download at http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/home.html The Institute is located in Montreal (QC), Canada.

With their goal of preventing and reducing accidents and fatalities, Saskatchewan has developed a site that provides workers and employers with background information for all aspects of occupational health and safety. It supplies links to allow the user to find what they need quickly and easily.

The Ready For Work site teaches students, employers and teachers their rights and responsibilities for every sector of the workforce. It allows them to download the current version of the New Workers Guide, gives out facts and supplies a frequently asked questions link.

The Yukon has created a bilingual site that will help in their pursuit of excellence in prevention. It has provided the Act and Regulations, reports, current young worker and general health and safety news releases and supplies a contact list to help aid workers with any questions they may have.