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2012 Essential Guide brochure is now available!
The Essential Guide features new OHS articles and your guide to Gowlings' OHS courses and seminars. Click here to view the 2012 OHS Essential Guide. To receive a copy in the mail please fill out this form. Don't miss out on the 2012 OHS Essential Guide - Your complete guide to occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation, and human resources training, consulting and legal solutions across Canada.
2012 OHS Essential Guide Articles available online
The 2012 OHS Essential Guide features articles on Workers Compensation, OHSAS 18001, Accessibility Standard for Customer Service and more. Please click here for full articles.
Norm Keith will be teaching the Governance, Ethics and Social Responsibility course at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies January 30th, 2012
This course, will provide you with an introduction to the theory and key concepts of corporate governance, business ethics and corporate social responsibility and insight into their potential benefits and challenges in a business environment. It will include such topics as: corporate governance challenges in Canada, balancing shareholder and stakeholder interests, the role of the Board in setting the ethical "tone at the top", the risk management role of an ethical compliance culture, and managing reputation risk through corporate social responsibility. Click here for more information or to register for this course.
Compliance Audits
Find out how compliant your organization is with OHS statutory requirement and/or sector specific regulations. Click here for more info on the OHSLAW Gap Analysis™ - Phase 1 and OHSLAW Gap Analysis™ - Phase 2.
Norm Keith is among 75 Gowlings' professionals recognized in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory
Gowlings continues to be well represented in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory with 75 professionals recognized across 33 practice areas. These rankings, based on extensive annual peer-review surveys, identify leading lawyers in Canada across 64 practice areas. The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory is a valuable resource for Canadian and U.S. corporate counsel as well as Canadian and U.S. law firms in need of Canadian legal expertise. Click here for more information.
Read the full article - Evolution of Corporate Accountability: From Moral Panic to Corporate Social Responsibility
Gowlings Makes submission to the WSIB regarding JHSC certification process.
Click here for more details.
What is JHSC?
A joint health and safety committee (JHSC) is a workplace committee made up of management and non-management members. The Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act requires that workplaces with 20 or more workers or workplaces with a "designated substance" (there are some exceptions to construction projects) have a JHSC. Click here to read more.
Library of OHS Procedures
Benefit from Gowlings’ library of OHS procedures that comply with legal and best practice standards and which can be customized for your organization. Click here for a library of OHS procedures. For more information please contact Cassandra Patrick 1-866-862-5787 ext. 84348
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