A new guide is available to help workplaces prepare for the potential challenges and impacts climate change can have on employees and the work they do.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has published a free Climate Change: Workplace Impacts handbook, which underwent several stages of review.

The guide advises on how to: take action to identify, assess, control and monitor climate-related hazards; take climate-related events into account when establishing policies and programs to address their impact on occupational health and safety; consider the impacts when completing workplace hazard identification and risk assessments; and approach and address climate-related workplace hazards.

The handbook is geared to anyone involved in the development and implementation of workplace policies and programs, including employers, managers and supervisors, human resources professionals, and health and safety committee members and representatives.

Climate Change: Workplace Impacts can be found as a free PDF download here: www.ccohs.ca/products/publications/climate-change/.