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                  The Board of Directors of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) has renewed the mandate of its president and CEO, Marie Larue, for another five-year term. 


                  
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              </description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Renewal-IRSST-president-CEO-mandate .html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Impacts de la manutention chez les travailleurs obèses</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-impacts-de-la-manutention-chez-les-travailleurs-obeses-in-french-only-2013-06-05.html</link><description>
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              </description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-impacts-de-la-manutention-chez-les-travailleurs-obeses-in-french-only-2013-06-05.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - The IRSST adopts a five-year research activity plan </title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-l-irsst-se-dote-d-un-plan-quinquennal-de-recherche-2013-05-16.html</link><description>
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                  The Board of Directors of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) unanimously approved a five-year scientific and technical production plan for 2013–2017 at its latest regular meeting. This plan is the result of numerous consultations held with our partners in the work and research communities to make certain that real OHS needs and emerging problems are taken into account in the workplace.

                  
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              </description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-l-irsst-se-dote-d-un-plan-quinquennal-de-recherche-2013-05-16.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Scientific Advisory Board - Appointment of Léonard Aucoin</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Scientific-Advisory-Board-Leonard-Aucoin.html</link><description>
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                  At its regular meeting on April 18, the board of directors of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) ratified the president and CEO’s recommendation concerning the appointment of a new representative of the scientific and technical communities to the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board. The new appointee is founder, president and CEO of InfoVeille Santé, Léonard Aucoin, who was decorated with the title of Knight by the Ordre national du Québec in 2010.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Scientific-Advisory-Board-Leonard-Aucoin.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Scientific Advisory Board - Appointment of Edwin Bourget</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-scientific-advisory-board-appointment-of-edwin-bourget-2013-04-19.html</link><description>
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                  At its regular meeting on April 18 and on recommendation by the president and CEO of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), the Board of Directors appointed a new representative of the scientific and technical communities to sit on the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board. The new appointee is Edwin Bourget, recipient of numerous honours and distinctions, including the Québec government’s Prix Armand-Frappier 2012, which recognizes outstanding contributions to scientific research.

                  
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              </description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-scientific-advisory-board-appointment-of-edwin-bourget-2013-04-19.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Funding Provided for Three New Studies on Exposure to Engineered Nanoparticles</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-funding-provided-for-three-new-studies-on-exposure-to-engineered-nanoparticles-2013-04-15.html</link><description>
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              </description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-funding-provided-for-three-new-studies-on-exposure-to-engineered-nanoparticles-2013-04-15.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - The IRSST becomes a World Health Organization collaborating centre</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-the-irsst-becomes-a-world-health-organization-collaborating-centre-2013-04-10.html</link><description>
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                  Montréal, April 9, 2013 – The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), Marie Larue, is pleased to announce that the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Scientific Direction of the IRSST as one of its collaborating centres. The main role of the collaborating centres (CC) is to provide strategic support to WHO in fulfilling its mandated activities and to help it ensure the scientific validity of global health work.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-the-irsst-becomes-a-world-health-organization-collaborating-centre-2013-04-10.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Modèles prédictifs de l’exposition à la silice cristalline
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                  À partir d’une banque de données contenant plus de 10 000 mesures d’exposition professionnelle à la silice cristalline, une équipe de chercheurs de l’Université de Montréal et de l’Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) a conçu des modèles prédictifs de l’exposition des travailleurs à cette substance associée à des maladies respiratoires, dont le cancer du poumon et la silicose. Pour ce faire, les chercheurs ont utilisé des techniques d’analyses multivariées pour évaluer les effets simultanés de divers paramètres sur l’exposition de travailleurs à la poussière de silice, tels que le titre d’emploi, la tâche exécutée, sa durée, le secteur d’activité, la nature du projet (construction, restauration, démolition), la ventilation, les moyens de protection, etc. 
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-modeles-predictifs-de-l-exposition-a-la-silice-cristalline-2013-04-02.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Chariot élévateur | 
La ceinture de sécurité – un regard sur les normes et l’utilisabilité</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Chariot-elevateur-ceinture-de-securite.html</link><description>
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                  (In french only) Le Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité du travail exige qu’un chariot élévateur en porte-à-faux à grande levée soit muni d'un dispositif de retenue afin d'éviter que le cariste ne soit écrasé par la structure du chariot élévateur en cas de renversement. La ceinture pelvienne de sécurité étant le moyen le plus souvent utilisé, des chercheurs se sont intéressés aux modèles offerts sur le marché pour en comprendre les critères de performance afin d’assurer la sécurité des caristes et de faciliter leur utilisation dans les milieux de travail.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Chariot-elevateur-ceinture-de-securite.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Guardrails on flat roofs - Better Fall Protection
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                  All work at heights involves severe risk of falling. On a flat roof, the best way to prevent such accidents is by installing a guardrail. Until now, however, guardrail anchoring systems used in Québec had never been subjected to testing for compliance with the Safety Code for the construction industry.

                  
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              </description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-prevention-fact-sheet-for-flat-roof-guardrail-anchor-systems-for-roofers.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Lésions professionnelles - Des coûts importants pour la société</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-lesions-professionnellesdes-couts-importants-pour-la-societe-in-french-only-2013-02-18.html</link><description>
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                  (In french only) Montréal, le 18  février 2013 – Une étude réalisée par l’Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) estime, pour la première fois, les coûts globaux des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles au Québec. 
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-lesions-professionnellesdes-couts-importants-pour-la-societe-in-french-only-2013-02-18.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - New OHS Research Chair on Gender, Work, and Health</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-new-ohs-research-chair-on-gender-work-and-health-2013-02-12.html</link><description>
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                  A first OHS research chair on gender, work, and health was recently awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST). The new chairholder is Julie Côté from McGill University’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-new-ohs-research-chair-on-gender-work-and-health-2013-02-12.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Evaluation of back-up alarms for heavy vehicles</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-evaluation-of-back-up-alarms-for-heavy-vehicles-2012-12-20.html</link><description>
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                  Une étude de l’Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) compare un nouveau type d’alarmes de recul pour les véhicules lourds aux alarmes traditionnelles en regard de la sécurité des travailleurs.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-evaluation-of-back-up-alarms-for-heavy-vehicles-2012-12-20.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Service agreement between the IRSST and HRSDC</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Service-agreement-IRSST-HRSDC.html</link><description>
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                  The president-CEO of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), Marie Larue, is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement for professional services with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). By this agreement, the IRSST will provide, for the next three years, calibration services for the laboratory industrial hygiene and analytical equipment in the HRSDC's Labour Program.


                  
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              </description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-Service-agreement-IRSST-HRSDC.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Portrait of Occupational Injuries and Sectors at Risk In Quebec
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                  Even though the number of full-time worker equivalents increased by more than 8% between 2002 and 2007, the number of occupational injuries (including accidents and occupational diseases) declined by 16.3% during the same period. The decline was 20.2% among men and 5.6% among women. This data comes from statistical profiles on compensated occupational injuries in Quebec, on which the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) has just completed a detailed analysis.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-portrait-of-occupational-injuries-and-sectors-at-risk-in-quebec-2012-12-13.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Occupational Injuries - Innovative Portraits
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                  Combining CSST data for the years 2005 to 2007 with Census data published by Statistics Canada for the year 2006 has allowed the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) to produce a study containing several innovative portraits of the situation of Quebec workers receiving compensation for occupational injuries. In addition to providing individual frequency indicators and severity indicators, the study has come up with a frequency-severity 
indicator that takes into account both frequency rates and average compensation 
for injuries resulting in time-loss compensation (TLC). It also contains 
separate indicators for the three occupational groups (manual workers, 
non-manual workers and workers with combined tasks); youth 15 to 24 years; 
workers aged 45 or more; industries most at risk; and so forth.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-lesions-professionnelles-des-portraits-inedits-2012-11-27.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Portrait of Occupational Diseases in Québec</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-portrait-of-occupational-diseases-in-quebec-2012-12-10.html</link><description>
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                  On average, 5,000 new cases of occupational diseases or disorders (OD) are recognized in Quebec each year. They constitute slightly less than 5% of all employment injuries and are more prevalent among men (2.7&nbsp;‰) -- particularly those aged 45 years of age or over (5&nbsp;‰) – than among women (0.9&nbsp;‰). The frequency rate is highest in the secondary sector (manufacturing and construction), where more than four workers out of every thousand are injured or harmed. The primary sector (agriculture, forestry, mining, hunting and fishing) has the second highest frequency rate (3.3&nbsp;‰), while in the tertiary sector less than one in a thousand is harmed. This data is derived from statistical profiles of compensated occupational injuries in Quebec for the period 
2005-2007, of which the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en 
sécurité du travail (IRSST) has just completed a detailed analysis.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-portrait-of-occupational-diseases-in-quebec-2012-12-10.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - IRSST Partners in Gender, Work and Health Chair 
Initiative </title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-irsst-partners-in-gender-work-and-health-chair-initiative-2012-07-10.html</link><description>
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                  A new funding program is now available to researchers, made possible by the creation of research chairs on gender, work and health. Launched by the Institute of Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IGH-CIHR) in collaboration with other organizations including the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), this program includes funding for a Québec research chair in occupational health and safety (OHS) that will take worker gender and sex into account. 
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-irsst-partners-in-gender-work-and-health-chair-initiative-2012-07-10.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Biological monitoring of contaminant exposure
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                  Montréal, June 20 2012 – The 7th edition of the Guide de surveillance biologique de l'exposition has just been published by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST). Intended for doctors, hygienists and other health professionals, this guide helps specialists to choose the right strategy for collecting quality biological samples that are compatible with the analytical requirements of recognized laboratories and to correctly interpret the results.
                  
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              </description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-biological-monitoring-of-contaminant-exposure-2012-06-20.html</guid></item><item><title>IRSST - Agreement signed by the IRSST and UK’s HSL</title><link>http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/-press-release-agreement-signed-by-the-irsst-and-uk-hsl-2012-06-19.html</link><description>
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                  Montréal, June 19, 2012 – UK's Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) and Quebec's  Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) have ratified a new five-year partnership framework agreement. 
                  
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