Prevention and safety

The prevention of work accidents and occupational diseases is everyone's responsibility.
Organizing prevention in your workplace starts with good health and safety management. In this way, you implement measures to ensure sustainable prevention. Sustainable prevention facilitates behavioural change and ownership of good practices.

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Prevention information

Making a safe work environment is an essential task. To achieve this, one must, among other things, identify, correct and control the risks present in the work environment. Employers and workers, find in this section all the information you need to make your environment safe.

Organizing prevention

Organizing prevention means managing health and safety in the workplace.

Healthy workplace

For their physical or psychological health, workers have the right to work in a safe and healthy workplace.

First aid in the workplace

Trained first aiders must be present in the workplace at all times. The CNESST oversees the First Aid in the Workplace Program. Interested in becoming a first aider? See all the information about the Program.

Accident investigation reports

Consult the accident investigation reports produced by the CNESST. They are used to specify the causes of work accidents and to present preventive measures that could have been put in place to prevent such accidents.