Occupational Health & Safety
Each year, thousands of North Americans die as a result of work-related injuries and illnesses. Millions of others sustain serious injuries. That’s both a personal tragedy and a heavy toll on business, costing billions of dollars in lost productivity. Worker safety is a team effort and it affects us all. You have an important contribution to make, and Canadian Standards Associations (CSA) is here to help.
CSA: Your go-to source for OH&S standards information
As one of the leading organizations in North America for OH&S standards, CSA has been involved with workplace health and safety issues for many years. We facilitated the development of Canada’s first standard for hard hats in 1948. Since then, CSA has published over 170 OH&S documents covering a wide spectrum of workplace matters: from machinery and equipment to office ergonomics and injury prevention.
Our ground-breaking Z1000-06 Occupational Health and Safety Management was Canada’s first consensus-based standard for OH&S management. This standard offers direction on how to help manage OH&S in your organization, providing a model and guidance for developing and implementing an OH&S system. This approach helps increase awareness of health and safety in the workplace. It can be used in any workplace, big or small, in any sector, to drive improvement in OH&S performance.
CSA standards cover a wide spectrum of occupational health and safety matters:
- Construction Safety
- Electrical Safety
- Emergency Preparedness
- Equipment And Machinery Safety
- Ergonomic/Human Factors
- General Workplace Safety
- OHS Management Systems
- Personal Protective Equipment