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http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.htmlFor Immediate distribution to all OPC clients in Health Care, Industry & Mining! Ontario’s Ministry of Labour will blitz workplaces across the province looking for hazards involving manual materials handling that can lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). In February 2012, Ministry of Labour inspectors will target workplaces in the health care, industrial and mining sectors.They will focus […]

OPC Employer Updates on Case Law & Stress Compensation Claims are Coming   Management of Long-Term Disabled Employees: How to Navigate the Current Legal Minefield Employers often find themselves in a situation where employees on still on ” their books” that have been absent from work for an extended period (in some cases for years) on long-term disability or […]

OPC Employer Updates on Case Law & Stress Compensation Claims are Coming   Management of Long-Term Disabled Employees: How to Navigate the Current Legal Minefield Employers often find themselves in a situation where employees on still on ” their books” that have been absent from work for an extended period (in some cases for years) on long-term disability or […]

StopGap: Hot Off The Press!: Check out this awesome piece about the ramp project written by Ben Spurr of Now Magazine! http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/news/story.cfm?co… Read about Luke Anderson’s Ramp Project in and around Toronto. Brilliant way to raise awareness about Accessibility (lack of it) and the AODA for Ontario. Well done Luke & Stop Gap! JESleeth Olga […]

Business whom we speak with are still not even aware of the CSS which was due January 2012. Reporting timelines have been changed but private business still needs to comply; and the next phase includes the Integrated Standards and Emergency Plans AODA-OPC.com to help clear up the confusion Ontario disabilities act creates compliance confusion – […]

How Moral Hazards Affect Workers Compensation BehaviourThis is an excerpt from the Blog entitled Amaxx Risk Solutions, author Rebecca Shafer. I recommend this article as this encapsulates what we find statistically occurs in our Disability Practice at OPC as well as that of many large & small Disability Management firms & WCB’s in Canada.Turns out Dr Hamilton Hall was […]

When Stress Is Good for You – WSJ.com This is a very important article for health, safety and HR Professionals to read as there are far too many articles and commissions & physicians label “stress” as being negative. As outlined in this article & in the Carswell Book Pub 2012 on Mental Health in the […]

Re. Jan 10, 2012 “The injuries we don’t see; Mental injuries are receiving more attention for workers’ compensation and the threshold is changing”CDN HR Reporter Jeffrey Smith authorThank you for your Blog Article for CDN HR Reporter Jeffrey More conversation about this topic is required as there is a bias inherent in calling everything distressful […]

This on line article is written by Peter Fabris for Building Design & Construction & is entitled “8 Must-Know Trends In Office Fitouts “ I bring this article to the attention of our readers of OPCTODAY so you can see how little attention if any is given to FUNCTION with all attention going to FORM and […]

CLV Special Report – Psychological Illness, Mental Health and the Workplace: Canadian Trends and Return to Work Challenges Psychological illnesses are present and have been present in various forms and manifestations in the workplace for as long as there have been workplaces. It is only recently that employers are starting to understand the size of […]

BACKGROUND & Relationship with the AODAOntario’s human rights system changed substantially with amendments to the Code which came into effect on June 30, 2008. As of that date, the human rights system in Ontario became a “direct access” system whereby customers, employees, clients and the public who wanted to file an application are able to […]

BACKGROUND & Relationship with the AODAOntario’s human rights system changed substantially with amendments to the Code which came into effect on June 30, 2008. As of that date, the human rights system in Ontario became a “direct access” system whereby customers, employees, clients and the public who wanted to file an application are able to […]

Emergency preparedness: Current AODA requirement for persons with disabilities Under the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulations of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), effective January 1, 2012, all organizations in Ontario must provide and make available in an accessible format or with appropriate communication supports, information about emergency response plans and public safety to customers, […]

Canadian Human Rights Commission : News Room; OPC wants to ensure all employers in Ontario start to see Accessibility Complaint Trends NCC sets New Standard for Universal AccessibilityYORK STREET STEPS SETTLEMENT PROTECTS THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Canada’s Capital Region — The National Capital Commission (NCC) is creating a new committee to provide ongoing […]