Optimizing Health and Safety Inspections in Canada

Conceptualizing Cultural Safety: Definitions and Applications of Safety in Health Care for Indigenous Mothers in Canada

The importance of delivering culturally-appropriate health care to meet the unique health needs of Indigenous peoples in Canada has resulted in the emergence of various concepts to describe how care should be provided. However, there is lack of clarity regarding how these terms differ from one another and what they look like in practice. An extended literature search was performed to conceptual...

Implementing Road Safety Inspections in Ireland and Initial Results

1. ABSTRACT This paper will focus on changes to the implementation of road safety inspections in Ireland following the requirement, under EU Directive 2008/96/EC on Road Infrastructure Safety Management (2008), for the establishment of periodic road safety inspections (RSI) of existing roads, along with safety impact assessments, high accident concentration ranking and road safety audits (RSA)....

Health Canada: Current Topics in Food Chemical Safety Research

This special issue of Food Additives and Contaminants dedicated to ‘Health Canada: Current Topics in Food Chemical Safety Research’ will be the first published document where the focus is on Health Canada’s food research activities. This issue features a selection of papers arising from work in the Food Research Division of the Bureau of Chemical Safety within Health Canada’s Food Directorate a...

Redefining Workplace Safety and Health

Legalizing and Regulating Marijuana in Canada: Review of Potential Economic, Social, and Health Impacts

Notwithstanding a century of prohibition, marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in Canada. Due to the growing public acceptance of recreational marijuana use and ineffectiveness of the existing control system in Canada, the issue surrounding legalizing this illicit drug has received considerable public and political attentions in recent years. Consequently, the newly elected Liber...