Ontario. Ministry of Labour. Professional and Specialized Services Program

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Ministry of Labour. Professional and Specialized Services Program

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Professional and Specialized Services Program

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      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1991-

      History

      This program was established in 1991, taking over the functions of the Health and Safety Support Services Branch. It is still in existence.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      Part of the Occupational Health and Safety Branch, the Professional and Specialized Services Unit is a multidisciplinary team of occupational health professionals whose function is to identify and reduce the risk of worker injury through the contribution of professional knowledge on the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of occupational hazards.

      The team includes a provincial physician, nurse, hygienist, ergonomist, scientists and a radiation physicist. It also includes Health and Safety mediators, who resolve disputes involving workplace health and safety.

      The team sets, communicates and enforces standards, provides health and safety assessments of chemicals, provides notification of new chemical and biological agents, conducts statistical analysis of occupational health data, and coordinates training regarding these issues.

      Professional and Specialized Services engineers provide engineering expertise to the Construction, Industrial and Mining Health and Safety Programs. Diving specialists administer the Diving regulation.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Labour (1972-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA43

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Labour controls Ontario. Ministry of Labour. Professional and Specialized Services Program

      Dates of relationship

      1991-

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Health and Safety Support Services Branch (1987-1991)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1812

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Health and Safety Support Services Branch is the predecessor of Ontario. Ministry of Labour. Professional and Specialized Services Program

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA1818

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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          Sources

          KWIC Index to Government Services, 1991-1992, 1997; RG 7 Inventory

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          John Dirks