Plan to Save Lives

April, the first full month of spring, brings the excitement of warmer weather and longer days. It also marks the National Day of Mourning. This April, plan to save lives – exercise your OHS rights, make an appointment to donate blood or plasma, and become a registered organ donor.

In This Issue:

April Health and Safety Bulletin

• Refusing Unsafe Work
• Recognizing the Risk

Observances:

Awareness Month:

HIE; IBS; Oral Health; Parkinson’s; Rosacea; FND; Autism

Awareness Days/Weeks:

World Autism Day: 2

Sorry Charlie Day: 6

Passover (Pesach): 5-13

Green Shirt & World Health Day: 7

Good Friday (STAT):

National Dental Hygienists: 4 to 10

International ASMR Day: 9

National Medical Laboratory Week: 9 to 15

Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse: 11

Day of Human Space Flight: 12

Plant Appreciation Day: 13

Youth Violence Prevention Week: 12-16

International Dark Sky Week: 15-22

Organ & Tissue Donation Week: 18 to 24

World Hemophilia Day: 17

Global Porphyria Day: 19

Eid al-Fitr (tentative): 21-23

Earth Day: 22

World PI Week: 22-29

Impossible Astronaut Day: 23

Immunization Awareness Week: 23 to 30

National Day of Mourning: 28