Compensation and Occupational Disease: Submission to Canada's Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation

Grayson J. Paul , “Perceptions of Workplace Hazards,” Perspectives on Labour and Income, Statistics Canada, Spring 1994, pp. 41–47.

Ibid. p. 44.

Kraut Allen , “Estimates of the Extent of Morbidity and Mortality Due to Occupational Diseases in Canada,” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 25: 267–278 (1994).

Ibid, p. 268.

These figures were taken from the Canadian Autoworkers union (CAW) Sustainable Benchmark Study of 16 Independent Ontario auto parts plants.

Beardsley Tim , “A War Not Won,” Scientific American, January, 1994, pp. 130–138.

Firth Matthew , The Facts About Occupational Cancer: An Introduction to Cancer in the Workplace (Draft), prepared for the Windsor Occupational Health Information Service.

Epstein Samuel Dr. , The Politics of Cancer, Garden City, NY. Anchor Press.

“Cancer in Canada 1991,” Statistics Canada.

Shaw Charles , “What is Cancer and How Much is Caused by Occupational Exposure,” in Prevention of Occupational Cancer, Boca Raton: CRC Press.

IARC Monograph on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans (Volume 60: Some Industrial Chemicals) (1994) World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, pp. 29–30.

Infante Peter Dr. , “Cancer and Blue-Collar Workers: Who Cares?,” New Solutions, Winter 1995, pp. 52–57. (This is an extremely important article which presents important information concerning the potential exposure of millions of American workers to human carcinogens.)

Infante , Ibid, p. 53.

Infante , Ibid. p. 57.

Ontario Industrial Disease Standards Panel (IDSP), Report to the Workers Compensation Board on Lung Cancer in the Hardrock Mining Industry, March 1994.

IDSP, Ibid.

Finkelstein Murray , “Mortality Rates Among Employees Potentially Exposed to Chrysotile Asbestos at Two Automotive Parts Factories,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 141, 1989, pp 125–130. (Dr. Finkelstein produced two studies, one in 1983 and another in 1988, for the Ontario Ministry of Labour.)

Kaplan Samuel D. Dr. and Parsons James , “Update of a Retrospective Cohort Mortality Study of Workers Exposed to Asbestos,” SRI International, Troy, New York, 1983. (The Bendix plant in Troy, New York was a similar plant to the Windsor operation. Dr. Finkelstein was told that the Troy study found an excess of cancer of the larynx similar to the Windsor findings.)

Ontario Industrial Disease Standards Panel, Report to the Workers' Compensation Board on Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Among Firefighters, September, 1994.

The Ontario Industrial Disease Standards Panel (IDSP) commissioned a report on cancer in the auto industry based on a submission from the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). Dr. Donald Cole prepared a document, titled Cancer in the Auto Industry: A Map of the Literature, 1994.

The following are reports based on this investigation: Eisen , “Mortality Studies of Machining Fluid Exposures in the Auto Industry 1: A SMR Analysis,” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 22: 809–824 (1992); Tolbert , “Mortality Studies of Machining-fluid exposure in the automobile industry,” Scan. J of Work Environment and Health, 18: 351–360, (1992); Eisen , “Mortality Studies of Machining Fluids in the Automobile Industry: A Case-Control Study of Larynx Cancer,” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 26: 185–202 (1994). The Ontario IDSP will be issuing a set of recommendations to the Workers' Compensation Board on cutting fluids and cancer in two parts sometime in 1995.

This project is currently underway. Either the OHCOW clinic in Windsor or the IDSP in Toronto can provide further information about this project.

“(Mining Master File) … is a computerized record of data on individual miners obtained at yearly miners' examination that have been carried out since the mid-1920's …,” In: Gomez M. ed., “Radiation hazards in mining: Control, measurement and medical aspects.” New York: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum, p. 359–362, 1981.

The NIOSH list, which contains the 10 leading work-related diseases and injuries, was reprinted in the NIOSH Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace Bibliography, April 1994, p. 6.

Baird Patricia Dr. , “Reproductive Hazards and the Workplace,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 147 (2), 157–160, 1992.

Quebec is the only province in Canada with a possibility that allows women to use the Compensation system as a means to leave work during a pregnancy if the worker is exposed to a reproductive hazard. A publication which explains the legal rights of the worker regarding this provision is available in English. It is titled, For a Safe Maternity Experience: The Protective Reassignment Program for Pregnant or Breast-feeding Workers. The CSST address is: 730 Charest Est, P.O. Box 4900, Postal Terminal, Quebec, Quebec G1K 7S6, Canada.