• Accommodation - Whose responsibility is it anyway?
• April 2007 Web-Tip: Key Components of a Return-To-Work Program
• Are demons like decreased productivity and absenteeism haunting your bottom line??
• Attendance and Disability Management Programs ~Why isn’t everyone at work?
• Attitude and Supervisory Support is Everything
• BC Human Rights Tribunal that indicated that McDonald’s was fined $25,000 damage award
• Chocolate is Good For You!
• Communicating Return to Work Information
• Creating a study environment for the adult learner
• Damaging effects of sun exposure
• Documentation During Return to Work Programs
• Duty to Accommodation
• February 2007 Web-Tip: Human Rights Bill 107 and Accommodation
  Ontario Human Rights Reform Bill 107 passed 3rd reading December 5, 2006 and Permanent Accommodation .... The quest for productive meaningful work.
• Functional Assessment Form For Timely Return To Work
• Health Strategies for Spring
• Heart Disease on the Rise in Women
• Helping Employees Through the February Blahs
• Identifying Complex Return to Work Issues Early in Employees
• Improve your VIEW of Accommodation – Accommodation and Visual Impairments
• Information on Chronic Pain and Ethnicity
• Is It an Attendance Issue or a Disability Management Issue??
• Managing a Healthy Workplace
• Managing Chronic Pain in the Workplace
• Managing Your Return to Work
• March 2007 Web-Tip: What Can I Ask when Planning Return to Work?
• Maximizing Presenteeism In 2006
• Mental Health issues cost Canadian employers a whopping $1.5 billion dollars a year.
• Mental Health - The 12 Steps
• Mental Health Accommodation
• Musculoskeletal Disorders Update
• October is Occupational Therapy Month!
• October '07 is Occupational Therapy Month!
• Pain and Productivity - There is a conection!
• Participatory Ergonomics
• Presenteeism - Working to Full Potential
• Preventing Non Workplace Accidents
• Repetitive Strain Injuries
• Return to Work - How Far Should an Employer Go???
• Return to Work for Individuals with Mental Health Conditions
• Santa's Suggestions to Getting you BACK in shape!
• Shift your offer of Accommodation – Part One ~ “BUT we are a three shift operation”
• Sick Notes are the Doctor’s Most Dangerous Medicine
• Solving the Complex Cases of Return to Work
• Stress, Health and Productivity During the Holiday Fury!
• The Art of AGE PROOFING Jobs
• The Cost Benefit of Accommodation 1
• The Cost Benefit of Accommodation 2
• The Cost of Accommodation
• The North Pole's Process for Accommodation
• U.S. adults who suffer from mental and physical illnesses miss work or are unable to carry out their usual activities for nearly 32 days a year
• Videotaping vs. Accommodation - An Employer's Dilemma
• What are the employee's responsibilities in the "duty to accommodate"?
• What Does the End of Mandatory Retirement Do to Your Employment and Disability Management Practices???
• Whiplash Recovery
• Why Accommodate Individuals with Disabilities

Presentations

• Nancy Gowan presented Occupational Health and Safety Programs: Are your ready to face the inspectors? at the OOHNA conference in May, 2005. Click HERE to view the presentation.

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