October 12 - October 14, 2018
FRIDAY
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:00
Dan Couture, Assistant Commissioner, Human Resources Branch, and Employer Co-Chair, National Health and Safety Policy Committee, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA);
Chris Aylward, National President, Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC);
10:00 - 10:15 H E A L T H B R E A K
10:15 - 11:45 Panel Discussions – Denis St. Jean; David Walsh;
Myriam Pierre-Louis and Jean-François Claude
Federal Public Service Workplace Mental Health Strategy
11:45 - 1:15 L U N C H
1:15 - 2:00 Andrea Peart, Health and Safety Officer, PSAC
What Makes an Effective Health and Safety Committee
2:00 - 3:00 Jean-François Gagné, HR Program Management Officer, Occupational Health and Safety,
Integrity and Well-Being Division, CRA;
Health and Safety Update:
Incident Reporting and Disability Management System (IRDMS) and the T4009;
3:00 - 3:15 H E A L T H B R E A K
3:15 - 4:15 Morgan Rowe, Lawyer, Raven, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck LLP
Highlights from Recent Court Decisions Affecting Health and Safety;
Bill C-65
4:15 - 5:00 Mathieu Juneau, Labour Relations Officer, UTE
Procedures in Response to Violence in the Workplace and the
Role of Local Occupational Health and Safety Committees/Representatives
SATURDAY
All Day Workshop – Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute: “De-Escalating Potentially Violent Situations”
SUNDAY
9:00 - 10:15 Marc Béland, PSAC National Capital Region Health and Safety Representative
Role of the ESDC Health and Safety Officer in the Workplace
10:15 - 10:30 H E A L T H B R E A K
10:30 - 11:30 Keynote Speaker – You Gotta Laugh: Healing Stress With Humour - Susan Stewart
11:30 - 12:00 Closing Remarks by Doug Gaetz and Marc Brière