Health and Safety Publications and Resources

BCTF Health and Safety Handbook

• English
• French
  

Day of Mourning

• Day of Mourning in Schools Project
  
• The Matthew Bowcott Story is a short video made for the Day of Mourning schools project.

Lead

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  • Blood lead levels in children
    
  • Information for parents
  • Sources of lead - water
    
• World Health Organization, Lead in drinking-water

Radon

• Radon in schools: Fact sheet on exposures to students and staff, from CAREX Canada

Teacher articles

We are highlighting articles published in the Teacher.

• New treatment for concussions (March 2018)
  
• Monitoring your own mental health (Nov/Dec 2017)
• When teachers reach their breaking point, the BCTF can help (Nov/Dec 2017)
• How well do you manage boundaries? (Sept/Oct 2017)

You can also browse through archived issues of the Teacher for older articles.