The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the agency charged with protecting workers. This is the main OSHA web page. It has a great deal of information to go through on health and safety issues:
osha.gov
OSHA contact page. Use this link if you want to communicate with Fed OSHA:
osha.gov/html/Feed_Back.html
There are 27 individual State Programs (including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). The rest of the States use Fed OSHA (above). This link shows you if your State has its own program and a link to their webpage:
osha.gov/dcsp/osp/index.html
This is the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety webpage. Like the U.S. OSHA site it has information useful to workers on both side of the border:
www.ccohs.ca/
Contract Services Administrative Trust Fund (csatf) administers the movie and television Industry Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee. The Safety Committee distributes Safety Bulletins which are recommended guidelines for the industry. Below are the csatf home page and the link that will take you to the table of contents for these safety bulletin guidelines:
csatf.org
csatf.org/bulletintro.shtml
Actsafe promotes workplace health and safety in the British Columbia performing arts and motion picture industries. Below find the links to the Actsafe home page and to their safety bulletin guidelines:
www.actsafe.ca
www.actsafe.ca/category/resources/safety-bulletins/motion-picture
Ontario has the Ministry of Labour to advance safe, fair and harmonious workplace practices. The second link are guidelines for film and TV productions:
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/pdf/gl_film_tv.pdf
The Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) is the Government of Québec organization entrusted with the administration of the occupational health and safety plan. For film and video guidelines, in French, use the second link:
http://www.csst.qc.ca
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/french/hs/pdf/gl_film_tv.pdf
The National Labor College is also a source for safety information. Below are the links for the home page and the health and safety page:
www.nlc.edu/
http://www.nlc.edu/labor-safety-health.html
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