What is Safety and Health Week?
Safety and Health Week is a continent-wide event spanning Canada, USA, and Mexico during the first week of May. This event was previously known as NAOSH (North American Occupational Safety and Health) Week.
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) promotes Safety and Health Week in partnership with the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE), Threads of Life, Employment and Social Development Canada, and American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP).
To find out more about Safety and Health Week, visit the event website at www.safetyandhealthweek.ca.
Calendar of Free Virtual Events
You are welcome to join any or all of the exciting events listed below. Please make sure you receive your supervisor’s approval before registering.
Monday, May 2 - Virtual National Kickoff at 11 a.m.
Join our national partners from across the country as we kick off Safety and Health Week 2022. The Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Labour, will deliver greetings to officially launch the week. Plus, you’ll hear inspiring stories, watch the finalist videos from the Focus on Safety National Youth Video Contest, and share in the excitement as the winner is announced.
Register for the free virtual kickoff
Tuesday, May 3 - Indigenous Communities at Work: Building Trust and Sustaining Well-Being at 1 p.m.
Join health and safety professionals Stacey Maguire of Glooscap First Nation and Travis Woodworth of Millbrook First Nation, as they discuss workplace health and safety in Indigenous communities. Learn about the complexities of situations workers in small, rural communities may face, and the value of integrating culture into safety programs to gain acceptance from communities.
Tuesday, May 3 - Looking for a new Podcast?
New podcasts are released each month by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety to help you stay current and informed on workplace health, safety, and well-being in Canada.
Wednesday, May 4 - Mental Health and Anxiety in the Workplace at 8 a.m.
This session will speak to mental health in the workplace. The speaker will cover topics such as:
Wednesday, May 4 - Midweek Mental Fitness at 1 p.m.
Improve your focus, lower your stress and increase your productivity with mental fitness. Pause, relax and reflect as you exercise your brain and join in a 30-minute guided meditation session..
Thursday, May 5 - Take Action, Don't Walk By at 1:30 p.m.
Everyone at work has a role to play in keeping themselves and each other safe. Learn how to develop a Take Action, Don't Walk By mindset. Join Lee-Anne Lyon-Bartley and Janet Mannella as they discuss five steps you can take to positively change an organization's health and safety culture.
Thursday, May 5 - Expand Your Knowledge
Did you know you have access to free, online health and safety courses and articles? A wide variety of topics are available for you to explore, including:
To learn more, visit our partners at:
Join us for the Field Institute's April MathED Forum, online this Saturday, April 30 from 9:55 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
About the event:
Educators share their experiences around the mathematics that students have developed over the past two years, including the gaps that may have emerged, how those gaps are reflected across the levels, and the teaching practices that have shown promise for use both in and beyond pandemic learning.
Everyone is welcome to register for this online event held via Zoom.
View the event schedule, presenter bios and to register
The fourth edition of HLR Spotlight goes live on April 26, with a launch event on Wedneday, April 27 from 7 to 8 p.m. All are welcome.
Event link (Zoom)
Meeting ID: 889 8070 8777
Passcode: 018163
The HLR Spotlight is a collaboration between the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning. The project is funded by Applied Research & Innovation.
This issue of HLR Spotlight was edited by students from the Professional Writing & Communications program, and features original art and writing from students from across the college.
Equity & Student Life and LGBTQ+ Resource Center invite you to:
Lunch and Learn: 2SLGBTQI Inclusive and Safer Campuses
This is an online workshop for the staff and faculty of Humber College. The event is facilitated by Challenge Accepted, a collective offering equity and inclusion consulting in multiple sectors and communities.
Date and time: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 from 12 to 1:30 p.m.
About the Event
Interested in learning more about what 2SLGBTQI Safer Campuses look, sound and feel like? This 90-minute lunch and learn is a great opener, offering campus staff and faculty a quick overview of the possibilities when it comes to creating inclusive campus environments for staff and students of all genders and sexualities.
This session offers an introduction to understanding key components of identity that inform the language of the 2SLGBTQI acronym. We’ll also think a bit about our own complex and intersecting identities, and how to engage across differences in safer and respectful ways at work and beyond.
Ending with a question and answer period, this session is ideal for folks unsure of where to start this work, providing a strong foundation in understanding the ways in which creating 2SLGBTQI safer campuses can positively impact people of all gender and attraction identities. Vibrant, activity-filled, and non-judgmental, participants are guaranteed to leave this session in a rainbow state of mind.
About Challenge Accepted
Challenge accepted is a collective founded and operated by queer and trans folks working towards building organizational capacity for queer and trans inclusion in Toronto and beyond. They offer equity and inclusion consulting in multiple sectors and communities, including developing and delivering curriculum in all levels of education, the healthcare sector, and within community-serving organizations.
Learn more about the team at Challenge-accepted.ca.
Please feel free to pass along this workshop information to other Humber staff and also please feel free to connect should you have any questions.
Learn about ecology in your backyard and the benefits of native plant gardening.
Join the Etobicoke Master Gardeners (EMG) and the Humber Arboretum online for a virtual workshop on Native Plant Gardening. Learn about ecology in your backyard, what makes a plant native, the benefits of gardening with native plants, and how to buy and select natives. Plus, you'll meet some of South Ontario's native plants.
This virtual event is part of the Eco-Garden Community Workshop series hosted by the Etobicoke Master Gardeners and Humber Arboretum throughout the year.
When: Saturday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (one hour presentation followed by Q&A)
Where: Online via Zoom
How: This free event is open to anyone, but space is limited and you must register in advance through Eventbrite to receive the link.
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Supporting Quality of Life for Seniors: Strategy and Innovation
Friday, April 22 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. EST
This free webinar will bring together speakers with expertise in senior care in Canada and Denmark, to discuss their work and research on the topic. Participants from Humber College and University College Absalon (Denmark), will have the opportunity to meet peers from around the world, discuss what they learned, compare and contrast approaches, ask questions directly to the experts, and gain a global perspective on what is being done in the field locally and globally.
Speakers:
Meena Bhardwaj (Canada) will present on Toronto's Seniors Strategy that was co-developed by seniors, sector and community partners with the goal of creating an age-friendly city
Dr. Bettan Bagger (Denmark) will present on her research using Virtual Reality technologies to support seniors with dementia with quality of life
This activity is also eligible for Co-Curricular Record (CCR) experience.
Supporting Quality of Life for Seniors: Strategy and Innovation
Friday, April 22 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. EST
This free webinar will bring together speakers with expertise in senior care in Canada and Denmark, to discuss their work and research on the topic. Participants from Humber College and University College Absalon (Denmark), will have the opportunity to meet peers from around the world, discuss what they learned, compare and contrast approaches, ask questions directly to the experts, and gain a global perspective on what is being done in the field locally and globally.
Speakers
Meena Bhardwaj (Canada) will present on Toronto's Seniors Strategy that was co-developed by seniors, sector and community partners with the goal of creating an age-friendly city
Dr. Bettan Bagger (Denmark) will present on her research using Virtual Reality technologies to support seniors with dementia with quality of life
This activity is also eligible for Co-Curricular Record (CCR) experience.
The Consent Peer Education Program invites all students, staff and faculty to join us in a Move to Heal: Trauma-Informed Yoga class facilitated by Cayla Meredith, founder of the Move to Heal Project.
Not only is Cayla the founder of the Move to Heal Project, but she is also a trained trauma-sensitive yoga instructor. These classes help stretch out the body parts that hold trauma, allowing a sense of release by the end of the class. Find more info on the Consent Peer Education Program Instagram page: @cpepteam
Sign up for:
Thursday, March 31
Class 1: Hatha Yoga- Full Body Stretch + Release
Register now
Thursday, April 7
Class 2: Redefining Self-Care: (What does it mean for me? Why is it so challenging?) A Trauma-Aware Journal Exercise + Chat
Register now
Thursday, April 14
Class 3: Self-Care Restorative Practice
Register now
Thursday, April 21
Class 4: Trauma-Informed Visual Self-Care Meditation
Register now
Join the CPEP team and many others for Alex Martin's From: Survivor To: Survivor online keynote
Alex shares her story surrounding sexual violence along with ways to prevent this harm from happening. She dives in deep with her own experiences and shares what she has been through as a survivor of sexual violence.
The first 30 people to join will receive a $5 Tim Hortons gift card, and everyone who attends the online event will be entered for a chance to win a $100 Uber Eats gift card.
In early December 2021, Humber officially launched a group for people who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to examine how they have been conditioned by their whiteness and how it shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and within their institutions (home, work, educational, religious, etc.). The Unlearning Circle: Humber employees dismantling whiteness focuses on unpacking and dismantling white supremacy culture and unlearning it.
The Circle held its first meeting in February 2022 and its second meeting in March 2022. The meeting materials and further information on The Unlearning Circle can be found on its webpage. The Circle's third meeting will be held virtually on Wednesday, April 20, from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Interested in joining the circle or have questions about it? For more information email theunlearningcircle@humber.ca.