The City of Ottawa and Persons with Environmental Sensitivities Chris Brown ages.ca 23 April 2008 1.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
FHM TRAINING TOOLS This training presentation is part of FHM’s commitment to creating and keeping safe workplaces. Be sure to check out all the training.
Advertisements

Re:Act Coordinating Virtual Team Matt Scott, MSW Amanda Brown, MSW.
Department of Human Services Sex, HIV and the law Dr Rosemary Lester Communicable Disease Control Unit Department of Human Services.
Background Infant mortality is defined by the CDC as the death of an infant less than one year old. This is a critical indicator of the well being of a.
OSHA Recommendations for Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in Late-Night Retail Establishments.
Use of Force DEFINITION OF USE OF FORCE
Safety Guidelines Illness and Injury Prevention Safety Guidelines Illness and Injury Prevention 2.01 Understand safety procedures 1.
County Health Authority Theoffice of The office of Phase II:
Page 1 PREA Orientation. Page 2 Basic Rules We Respect Each others Safety – No verbal or physically assaultive behavior We Appreciate Each Others Individuality.
ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN ROMANIA Adina BITFOI M.D., Psychiatrist Romanian League for Mental Health.
Introduction to Violence Epidemiology With a focus on crime-related violence Thomas Songer, PhD University of Pittsburgh
MANDATED REPORTING, Adjunct Professor Monica Bogucki Copyright 2013 Monica Bogucki.
OSHA Recommendations for Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in Late-Night Retail Establishments OSHAX.org – The Unofficial Guide to the OSHA.
Mental Health and Crime Dr Jayanth Srinivas, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Forensic Mental Health Service Sue Havers, Consultant.
IDABEL PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILD ABUSE 1. Reporting The Department of Human Services has a statewide centralized hotline for reporting child abuse or neglect.
The failure to implement and enforce environmental health law: The contribution of local government to attributable diseases L. Erasmus NWU – Potchefstroom.
Who Must Comply? When is a patient authorization NOT required?  As needed for the protection of federal and state elective constitutional officers and.
BARIATRICS Lesley Easthope Clinical Nurse Advisor ArjoHuntleigh.
Images of Public Health The System and Social Enterprise The Profession The Methods Government Services The Health of the Public Turnock, 2001.
Component 16/Unit 5 Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 1/Fall Professionalism/Customer Service in the Health Environment Unit 5 Regulatory Issues:
Medical/Legal and Ethical Issues CHAPTER 3 1.
EnvironmentalSafety 2.01 Understand safety procedures 1.
Public Health and Prevention M6920 September 18, 2001.
Workplace Violence Research has identified factors that may increase the risk of violence at worksites. Such factors include working with the public or.
Safety and Loss Control
ILLNESS AND INJURY PREVENTION. Topics  Impact of Unintentional Injuries  Community Hazards and Crime Areas  Community Resources  Illness and Injury.
Reporting Requirements for School Staff Presented by Nancy Hungerford November 30, 2011 Presented by Nancy Hungerford November 30, 2011.
Section 4.3 Depression and Suicide Slide 1 of 20.
Life Span and Mental Disorders. 2  …70% of mental disorders onset (diagnostic) prior to age 25 years  About 80% of mental disorders in.
2 nd Biennial National Safety Conference, 2013 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION AND WORKER PROTECTION IN GHANA – THE CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD.
What is it? Why it is so important?
Mental Health Services and Long Term Care
The intent of this presentation is to launch a public awareness about the Louisiana State Haven Law. agebuilder&tmp=home&pid=206.
Area Agency on Aging for North Florida, Inc. Case Manager Training June 22 – 23, 2010.
Healthcare Delivery System
Chapter 4 : Safe Schools Issues. Safe Schools Act and Bill 212/07 S.S.A. Introduced in 2000 Zero tolerance Teachers given authority to suspend Principals.
LEGAL LIABILITY, RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 13.
Chapter 3 Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues. 3: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues 2 Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Scope of Practice Defined by.
Component 16-Professionalism/Customer Service in the Health Environment Unit 5-Regulatory Issues: HIPAA and Standard Precautions This material was developed.
Respect aging Section 2: PREVENTION Module 8: Risk factors and protective factors Violence Prevention Initiative Respect Aging: Preventing Violence against.
Component 3-Terminology in Healthcare and Public Health Settings Unit 13-What is Public Health? This material was developed by The University of Alabama.
The Center for Policy, Advocacy and Education of the Mental Health Association of New York City NOT JUST HEALTH CARE: THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF HEALTH SYSTEMS.
Mindtrap.
OHS Seminar DO THE TIME – avoid the crime! Miles Crawley 8 June 2007.
Families may require outside assistance to deal with serious problems.
Component 1: Introduction to Health Care and Public Health in the US Unit 6: Regulating Health Care Lecture c: Medicine, Professional Liability, and Medical.
Society’s Response to Maladaptive Behavior
Lundy Bancroft. KEY CONCEPTS There are multiple sources of psychological injury to children from exposure to men who batter. Professional responses need.
Health Emergency Risk Management Pir Mohammad Paya MD, MPH,DCBHD Senior Technical Specialist Public Health in Emergencies Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.
Workers Comp Overview & Accident Investigations
LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TORTS. Legal Responsibilities Are authorized or based on law (a rule that must be followed) Are authorized or based.
Data Protection: Workplace, Health and Safety. Employers’ responsibilities Employer obliged to provide safe place of work. Health and Safety Act 2004.
National Corporate Training Pty Ltd0. Topics Follow safe work practices Maintain personal safety standards Assess risks Follow emergency procedures National.
Jorge Delucca, MS, MA, CAIH Compliance Assistance Specialist Oklahoma City Area Office Workplace Violence: The OSHA Perspective.
Ethics Key Terms  Confidentiality  Privileged communication  Privacy.
Workplace violence is violence or the threat of violence against workers. It includes harassment, verbal abuse, threatening behavior, fighting and physical.
Bledsoe et al., Essentials of Paramedic Care: Division 1 © 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ Division 1 Introduction to Advanced Prehospital.
Safeguarding Adults Care Act 2014.
Director:Mrs SCN Mdakane Office Location:111 Amajuba Building Contact Details: Tel: Fax: Mobile: (Work Only) DEPARTMENT.
Copyright © 2008 Delmar Learning Chapter 7 Legal Issues.
ASSIGNMENT 3 Task 1 presentation. Health and safety at work act 1974 Under the health and safety at work act employers, employees and volunteers have.
Introduction to Emergency Services Occupational Safety and Health & Review of Safety-Related Regulations and Standards Chapter 1 and 2.
SARS : The Toronto Experience A Legal Perspective Jane Speakman City of Toronto Legal Services Isolation and Quarantine Conference Public Health-Seattle.
Duty to Warn Third Parties
Health and Safety Staff meeting 9/7/18.
LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
What Is Workplace Violence?
Chapter 11 Legally Responsible Nursing Practice
Chapter 11 Legally Responsible Nursing Practice
Component 1: Introduction to Health Care and Public Health in the U.S.
Presentation transcript:

The City of Ottawa and Persons with Environmental Sensitivities Chris Brown ages.ca 23 April

Surprising Facts ● Not one disease; a compendium of disorders. ● Not new in modern times nor to medicine. ● Many health, public issues, as with infection. ● There has always been a legally-obligating, publicly-insured method of diagnosis. ● One must not subject persons or populations to a reverse onus in clinical or other settings. ● Effects can be serious, including death. ● 15 percent prevalence, mostly undiagnosed. ● Cities informed by Ontario in 1985, provinces by Health and Welfare in

Municipal Problems ● Misconceptions are contributing to isolation, injuries and deaths, with costs. ● People with sensitivities are denied protections normally provided to the public. ● Many municipal services are inaccessible. ● There is not an equitable availability of special needs services. ● Other levels of government are contributing to harm. ● Public institutions affect public attitudes. 3

Example Set by City – It is okay to cause damages to persons with sensitivities by imposing a reverse onus. – It is okay to cause damages to persons with sensitivities through arbitrary interference. – It is okay to hurt people with sensitivities in ways from which other people are protected. – It is okay to tolerate barriers in service delivery. – It is okay to adopt a revisionist history that obscures the means and obligation to protect. – It is okay to co-opt persons with diagnosed sensitivities into accepting a narrative that invisibilises liability for the killing of persons with undiagnosed sensitivities. 4

Isolated by Attitudes ● People with sensitivities often live apart. ● Fear affects advocates. – Many advocates invisibilise the most serious, the most threatening issues, to avoid personal or political consequences of whistle-blowing. ● Invisibilisation is revictimisation. ● Invisibilisation enables victimisation. ● Some health care professionals, employers, spouses and others (even politicians!) take advantage of peoples' felt vulnerability. 5

Preventable Injuries ● Health Care Recipients – especially infants and babies, 15% of adults – undiagnosed drug sensitivity, eating disorders – psych patients with undiagnosed CNS reactions ● Exposures by City or others – application of products in schools and other public facilities – diesel, idling, cleaning, heating, paint, perfume, roofing, dry cleaning, pesticides, crematoria. – workplace Section injuries, duty of care – sometimes with criminal intent ● Injuries to municipal staff 6

Unnecessary Deaths ● Medical Care Recipients – Section 216 homicides due to imprudence about undiagnosed drug sensitivities, environments ● Psychiatric Care Recipients – persons with undiagnosed CNS reactions – eating disorder deaths, other risk groups – suicides ● Health Canada – encouraged protections prior to 1993 – protections subsequently abandoned – people who were to have been protected are being injured or killed instead. 7

Municipal Protections Denied ● Public health and safety – child care, schools, hospitals, all facilities – suicide prevention – employment safety ● Human rights compliance – accessibility of facilities and services – employment accessibility ● Crime prevention, investigation, enforcement – educating victims and public (crime prevention) – section 216 homicides, Section injuries – criminal negligence, endangerment, assaults – guidelines for officers, as by SFPD 8

Accessibility of Services ● Water ● Health Care, Public Health ● Schools, Education, Libraries ● Sports and Recreation ● Public Transit, Train Station, Airports ● Employment ● Building Inspection ● Emergency, Public, Seniors' Housing ● Protective Services, Provincial Court ● Hotels (Government, Tourism, Business) 9

Other Levels of Government ● Province, Feds dodging liability. – Protections encouraged prior to 1993 were abandoned, resulting in several thousand unnecessary deaths, injuries, other damages. ● Officials endanger by forwarding a revisionist history that invisibilises foreknowledge. ● Focus on products, ignore legal obligations concerning use in populations where there are always persons with sensitivities. ● Province, Feds cannot be ignored due to municipal consequences. 10

Problems Summarised ● Misconceptions are contributing to isolation, injuries and deaths. ● People with sensitivities are denied protections normally available to the public. ● Many municipal services are inaccessible. ● There is not an equitable availability of special needs services. ● The effect of other levels of government cannot be ignored. ● Public institutions influence, even regulate how people act in communities. 11

Moving Forward ● Health department needs 12 step program. – misadventures left legacy of misconceptions. – role pivotal, needs dignified presence. – must stop eclipsing the actual history with revisionist version about “environmental medicine.” ● Actions speak louder than words. – Councillors and staff have a responsibility to protect, be accessible, and meet special needs. ● Communicate with Province and Feds. – The practice of eclipsing history, legal responsibilities, former protections, has municipal consequences. 12