A current concern in many workplaces and a Provincial OHS priority. Learn about the complexity of factors involved, plus resources to help.
Agenda:
Opioid and substance misuse in the Building Trades. A strategy to deal with an epidemic. Carmine Tiano, MA, Director of Occupational Services, Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario
Opioid-harms among Ontario Workers, what we know and are striving to learn. Dr. Nancy Carnide, PhD, Associate Scientist, Institute for Work and Health
Re-examining management of substance use impairment in workplaces – Moving the “dial” from zero tolerance to harm reduction and support. Kathy Martin, Coordinator, Research, Stakeholder & Public Relations, Mental Health and Wellness Specialist, Infrastructure Health and Safety Association
95% Confidence Interval (CI) is a range of values (upper and lower) that you can be 95% certain contains the true mean of the population.
Relative Risk (RR)
The relative risk is a comparison of the risk of getting lung cancer for those exposed to diesel exhaust compared to those who have never been exposed to diesel exhaust – for example, if the relative risk is 1.5, it means that for the cumulative diesel exhaust exposure entered into the calculator, the risk associated with that exposure is 1.5 times higher than the background risk of lung cancer for those who have not been occupationally exposed to diesel exhaust.