Welcome to the WHWB Blog. It replaces the Forum from our old website. Here you will find posts from WHWB members and notifications of upcoming WHWB activities. We are open to suggestions from members about what they would like to see here and what they would find most useful to them as occupational health professionals. …
Hello Workplace Health Without Borders members and friends and a warm welcome to the new members who joined since our last notice. We want to let you know about several upcoming virtual events and other news: WHWB-US invites you to a panel discussion on silica on Wednesday, October 20 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, …
Charitable alliance between Vitacore Industries (Vancouver, BC) and WHWB VItacore Industries is a Vancouver based, Canadian manufacturer of respirators including their proprietary CAN95 and CAN99 (equivalent to N95 and N99) surgical masks. The great news is that they are readily available in Canada and can be ordered online. In addition, Health Canada has certified both the CAN95 and CAN99 as being authorized for use. This …
Face-piece respirators (N95s and N99s) donated and deployed from Canada Read More »
WHWB Webinar on Child Labour June 23, 10 a.m. EDT Hello Workplace Health Without Borders members and friends. We want to remind you about our upcoming webinar on child labour, this Wednesday, June 23, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Please check your local time here and register here if you have not yet done so. See …
Taking Stock, Looking Forward: African Perspectives on Occupational Safety & Health in the time of COVID Thursday, May 20, 2021, 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. West Africa Time (UTC 14:00) Register here COVID-19 has laid bare fundamental gaps in health at both policy and practice level in Africa. Workers in the informal sectors are the …
The WHWB-UK branch has added a link on their webpage to the silica elearning course developed by WHWB-UK member Terry McDonald. This course can be viewed by going to the WHWB-UK page and following the link: Silica Awareness e-learning near the bottom of the page. Alternatively just follow this link directly to the course: Silica …
Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) partnered with OSHAfrica[1], University of Brasilia[2], IOHA[3], BECOH and the OHTA[4] to provide training in an alternative fashion. The pandemic has caused us to rethink our approach to training, often moving to 100% online due to the pandemic’s travel constraints. Using both synchronous (together) and asynchronous (on your own time) …
Training – Seventeen Countries, Three Languages, 48 Participants Read More »
Workplace Health Without Borders Webinar COVID-19 and Workers in the Informal Economy:Lessons from Latin America Wednesday, April 21, 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC 15:00) Register here Workers in the informal economy — often poorly paid, precarious, at risk, but also the most essential. Dra. Gerry Eijkemans, PAHO/WHO and Dr. Fabricio Augusto Menegon will speak at the next …
Webinar on COVID-19 Lessons from Latin America, April 21 Read More »
Register here. As part of our series, Taking Stock; Moving Forward – Reflections on Occupational Health in the time of COVID, Dr. Takala will document how COVID-19 has revealed gaps in workers’ protection and how it has compounded the risks which already fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable workers. Dr. Takala has a unique, global perspective …
WHWB Webinar with Dr. Jukka Takala, March 11, 10:00 a.m. EST on Zoom Read More »
WHWB, along with several other Canadian non-profit organizations, sponsored a letter to Canadian government officials about aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The letter, signed by more than 500 occupational health and safety experts, physicians, nurses, engineers, and scientists, calls for recognition of aerosol transmission and more efforts to provide good ventilation and PPE to prevent COVID-19. …
WHWB co-sponsors letter to Canadian officials on aerosol spread of COVID-19 Read More »
