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Your Protection

The Labour Program has prepared a series of publications for workers who want to prevent accidents. These short, user-friendly documents provide guidelines about how to protect some of the most vulnerable parts of your body. This is vital information, considering that your most important work tool is you!

• Our Hands at Work! On average each year, accidents cause 500,000 hand injuries in Canada.
• Protect Your Back! Stay in shape and adopt proper lifting techniques.
• Protect Your Ears! Take the necessary precautions to protect yourself and avoid hearing loss.
• Protect Your Eyes! Statistics tell us that most eye injuries could be prevented by the appropriate use of protective eyewear and shields.
• Protect Your Feet! One in 10 accidents is a foot injury - choose the right shoes to protect your feet.
• Protect Your Head! Ward off head injuries by wearing the right kind of hard hat.
• Protect Your Lungs! It is difficult to know whether there are any dangerous substances in the air. Learn how to manage the risks and wear the right protective devices.
• Protect Your Skin! Irritants, contaminants, exposure to the elements - learn how to protect your skin depending on the kind of the work you do.

In addition, the Labour Program has a number of brochures on health and safety related issues such as:

• Confined Spaces - No Easy Way Out: Manholes, sewers, boilers, or storage bins - learn the precautionary steps that must be carried out before entering such locations.
• Job Safety Analysis Made Simple: Describes the process to identify, assess, and minimize the hazards in a workplace.
• Workplace Inspections - A Matter of Health and Safety: Describes how to conduct effective workplace inspections.

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Date Modified:

2012-02-28