PD Workshop - Your Health and Safety in the Classroom

December 07, 2009 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Alumni Auditorium - University Centre

This workshop features a teacher-modified Health and Safety Awareness Training module, with introductions to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, rights and responsibilities of all school workers, work refusals, due diligence and other related topics. Part of the workshop will deal specifically with such current topics as violence – an introduction to Bill 168 and Lee-Anne, who is a half-time contract teacher, will end with a question and answer session to deal with specific health and safety questions from the audience related to conditions experienced or expected in the practicum classroom.

Presenter: Workers Health and Safety Centre and Lee-Anne Feltham, Health and Safety Officer, Ottawa-Carleton Elementary Teachers’ Federation