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Workers hurt on the job in Eastern Ontario won’t have to go to Sudbury or Toronto to be checked out before they start treatment, with the opening of a new occupational health clinic on Carling Avenue.
Funding the clinic to the tune of $777,000 is a “no-brainer,” said Labour Minister Kevin Flynn. Ottawa’s is the seventh such clinic in the province, meant to help injured workers who live anywhere east of Kingston.
Its doctors and nurses don’t provide ongoing medical care but they can connect injuries and diseases to workplace practices and exposures to chemicals, which can make insurance claims easier and force employers to fix dangerous conditions. Clinic workers also run information sessions, do workplace “walkthroughs” to spot dangers and help workers worried about what goes on in their workplaces. They’ll advise self-employed people and business owners, and work with health and safety committees in larger companies.
The other clinics in Ontario are in centres of heavy industry — Windsor, Hamilton and Sarnia, besides Toronto and Sudbury — but Ottawa’s construction workers, farm and food workers outside the city and employees in factories up the Ottawa Valley have shown more and more demand for such services, Flynn said.
It’ll “become a valuable resource for local workers and will help us all to work together to continue to reduce the number of workplace injuries in the province,” he said.
The clinics are run by a board made up mainly of labour-union representatives, from firefighters to steelworkers to teachers, but funded by the provincial government. Ottawa’s is at 1565 Carling Ave., near the Queensway.
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Funding the clinic to the tune of $777,000 is a “no-brainer,” said Labour Minister Kevin Flynn. Ottawa’s is the seventh such clinic in the province, meant to help injured workers who live anywhere east of Kingston.
Its doctors and nurses don’t provide ongoing medical care but they can connect injuries and diseases to workplace practices and exposures to chemicals, which can make insurance claims easier and force employers to fix dangerous conditions. Clinic workers also run information sessions, do workplace “walkthroughs” to spot dangers and help workers worried about what goes on in their workplaces. They’ll advise self-employed people and business owners, and work with health and safety committees in larger companies.
The other clinics in Ontario are in centres of heavy industry — Windsor, Hamilton and Sarnia, besides Toronto and Sudbury — but Ottawa’s construction workers, farm and food workers outside the city and employees in factories up the Ottawa Valley have shown more and more demand for such services, Flynn said.
It’ll “become a valuable resource for local workers and will help us all to work together to continue to reduce the number of workplace injuries in the province,” he said.
The clinics are run by a board made up mainly of labour-union representatives, from firefighters to steelworkers to teachers, but funded by the provincial government. Ottawa’s is at 1565 Carling Ave., near the Queensway.
dreevely@postmedia.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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