Purpose
HS-Canada is a means of distributing
messages to a group of individuals with interests in occupational
health and safety in a Canadian context. Although the list is
intended primarily for Canadians, anyone with an interest in Canadian
occupational health and safety issues is welcome to subscribe.
Messages may be sent in English or French.
List moderators
Messages sent to HS-Canada may
relate to any occupational or environmental health and safety
topic specific to Canada, specific to one or more provinces or
territories, or of interest to people working in health and safety
in Canada.
The Canadian
Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) provides
the facilities for this mailing list, but is in no way responsible
for the accuracy or content of information exchanged among list
subscribers.
How to Subscribe/Unsubcribe
Via WWW
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in the form.
Via e-mail
Subscribe
To subscribe to HS-Canada, send
e-mail to requests@ccohs.ca.
The body of the message should be
subscribe hs-canada
If you would like to subscribe
to the digest version of the list instead (i.e. receive one message
a day, containing all of the previous days messages), the body
of the message should be
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If you would like to be removed
from the list, send e-mail to requests@ccohs.ca.
The body of the message should be
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Please do not send unsubscribe
messages to hs-canada@ccohs.ca.
How to Send Messages to the List
Once you have subscribed, you
can send messages to all list subscribers by addressing an e-mail
message to hs-canada@ccohs.ca.
The following points of "Netiquette"
and the "Technical Details" are a compilation of requests
received from HS-Canada subscribers.
Netiquette
Appropriate Messages
on HS-Canada
HS-Canada is for the professional
exchange of ideas and information related to occupational and
environmental health and safety in a Canadian context, or of interest
to people working in health and safety in Canada. The list is
not intended as a soapbox for promoting causes, nor is it meant
for airing personal complaints against individuals and organizations.
If you want information or advice about a specific situation,
describe the situation in a non-judgmental way. If you cannot
do so without using defamatory statements about individuals or
organizations, do not post the message to this list.
If you send an off-topic message,
a message containing defamatory statements, or a message deemed
by the list owner to be inappropriate, he/she will send you private
e-mail informing you that your message is inappropriate for this
list, and asking you not to send such messages in the future.
If you send another such message, your right to send messages
to the list will be revoked.
If you are unsure whether a message
is appropriate for the list or not, send it privately to Peter Lukas at peterl@ccohs.ca.
Signatures
At a minimum, please add your
name, affiliation, geographical location and e-mail address at
the end of messages sent to the list. Your e-mail address alone
may not identify you clearly, and may not be visible to some message
recipients. Subscribers are more likely to take your requests
for information and your statements seriously if they know who
you are. Most e-mail software packages allow you to create "signature
files" for this very purpose.
Posting and Responding
to Job Ads
OSH-related job advertisements
open to people in Canada are welcome, but only from the organization
with the available position or published advertisements. No employment
agencies please. If you are posting a job advertisement, please
include an e-mail address and/or phone number where interested
individuals can contact you privately. If you are replying to
an advertisement, please do not send your reply to hs-canada@ccohs.ca.
Reply directly to the organization that has posted the advertisement.
Upcoming Health and Safety-Related
Conferenences, Meetings and Courses
Announcements about upcoming
events are welcome. One notice per event please!
Commercial Notices
Information about commercial
health and safety-related products and services is acceptable.
Advertising is not. If you provide or know about a product or
service that you feel might be of interest to list subscribers,
provide a brief description of the product or service, and details
about where interested parties can get more information (e.g.
e-mail and/or WWW address, phone number).
If you post a commercial message,
type COMMERCIAL: at the beginning of the subject line.
Abbreviations
When your message includes abbreviations
or acronyms, please indicate what those abbreviations or acronyms
stand for. What is obvious to you may be a complete mystery to
someone reading your message.
Regulations
When asking questions related
to regulations and/or legislative interpretations, please indicate
the jurisdiction that you want to know about. When giving an opinion
or information about such a question, please indicate what jurisdiction
your response refers to.
Forwarding Messages from
Other Mailing Lists
Many subscribers receive messages
from more than one mailing list. There may be times when you see
a message on another list that you think might be appropriate
for HS-Canada. If the message is an announcement of a conference,
a new publication, a new web site, etc. that might be of interest
to HS-Canada subscribers, it is acceptable to "cross-post"
to HS-Canada. It would be advisable to wait until the day after
you see the announcement on another list, in case someone else
has already cross-posted the message.
Please do not cross-post requests
for information from other lists, as the responses from HS-Canada
subscribers will probably not reach the person asking the question.
Technical Details
When You Are Going to
be Away
If you are going to be away from
your e-mail for a period of time, and if your e-mail software
has an autoreply function (i.e. the ability to automatically generate
messages to the effect of "I'm going to be out of the office
until such and such a date"), please unsubscribe from HS-Canada
before using autoreply. Otherwise, all the HS-Canada subscribers
will receive multiple copies of your "I'm going to be out
of the office" message.
No Confirm Reading or
Confirm Delivery
If you use Pegasus Mail or another
e-mail software package with Confirm Reading and/or Confirm Delivery
options, please ensure that they are switched off when you send
a message to HS-Canada. Otherwise, a number of Confirm Reading
and/or Confirm Delivery messages will be send to all list members.
File Attachments
File attachments cannot be sent
to HS-Canada. Please use plain text within the body of the message
only. If you have a document that you would like to share with
HS-Canada subscribers, please send it directly to individuals'
e-mail addresses, or send it to Peter Lukas for inclusion on CCOHS' web site. As a contributor,
you will continue to own the copyright on documents that you contribute.
All such contributions are available
at http://www.ccohs.ca/hscanada/hsdocs.html.
Please do not send documents
for which you do not own the copyright, unless you have been given
express permission to do so - e.g. other people's articles.
Quoting URLS
When pointing people to a web
site, please enter the address in the form http://www.something.com
rather than www.something.com. If the first format
is used, many e-mail packages will allow the message recipient
to click on the address. The recipients web browser will load
and access the referenced site directly.
Any further questions about the
list should be directed to the list owner, Peter Lukas (peterl@ccohs.ca).
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