Public Service Announcement

            For Immediate Release

November 9, 2005

Pregnancy and Reproductive Health in the Workplace

Executive Breakfast

8:30 am to Noon

November 18, 2005

Best Western Inn on the Bay,

1800 2^nd Ave. East, Owen Sound

Cost: $75.00 per person

The Grey Bruce Health Unit invites representatives from local workplaces to the Healthy Workplace Executive Breakfast Series The Impact of Work on Pregnancy and the Reproductive Health of the Worker: Protecting Our Future.

Wendy Burgoyne, a health educator through Best Start Resource Centre, Toronto Ontario will discuss

• risks and how they can be reduced or eliminated
• legal protection of expectant workers in workplaces
• positive strategies that can impact worker reproductive health
• policy, practices and education to reduce the risk of harm in the workplace

Employers need to know federal, provincial and occupational health and safety regulations that apply to their workplaces.  A 2004-workplace study in Grey-Bruce shows 78% of organizations responding do not have a policy relating to health before pregnancy, 16 % were not sure and only 6% have a policy in place.

This workshop will interest business owners, managers, human resource professionals, labour and health and safety representatives, occupational health nurses and others concerned with preventing illness in the workplace.

To register for this breakfast workshop contact Pat Feltis at Public Health 

1-519-376-9420 or 1800-263-3456 or visit www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca  click on Events.

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For more information:

Contact Public Health

Marilyn Lemon PHN, Reproductive Health

or

Jane Dobisz PHN, Healthy Workplace Program

920 First Avenue West

Owen Sound, ON N4K 4K5

(519) 376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456