September 2024 Health & Safety Bulletin

  • September 1, 2024

September 2024 Health & Safety Bulletin

September 2024!

Ahh September. The end summer and beginning of autumn. Kids head back to school. Animals start preparing for winter and humans tend to try and make the most of outdoor activities with end of the season camping and adventures.

This September, be prepared for whatever gets thrown at you.

In This Issue: September 2024 Health and Safety Bulletin

  • Wildlife Awareness
  • First Aid Preparedness

Observances/Awareness:

Awareness Month:

Acne; Arthritis; Charcot-Marie-Tooth; Childhood Cancer; Concussion; Craniofacial Acceptance;
Duchenne; FASD; Inherited Retinal Disease; International Pain; Ovarian Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Pulmonary Fibrosis;
Sickle Cell; World Alzheimer’s; Blood Cancer, Lice Prevention

Days/Weeks:

National Fibromyalgia Awareness Week: 1 to 8

Labour Day (Stat): 2

National Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Awareness Day: 4

Egg Toss Day: 6

World Beard, Day of Clean Air, & World Duchenne Day: 7

Physical Therapy Day: 8

Living Donation Week: 8 to 14

World First Aid Day: 9

International FASD Awareness Day: 9

World Suicide Prevention Day: 10

World Sepsis Day: 13

Eczema Week: 13-19

Myotonic Dystrophy Awareness Day & Terry Fox Run: 15

Child Passenger Safety Week: 15 to 21

World Alzheimer’s Day: 21

Fall (September) Equinox: 22

International Day of Sign Languages: 23

World Reflexology Week: 23-29

Ataxia Awareness Day: 25

World Quantum Readiness Day: 26

Right to Know & World Rabies Day: 28

International Week of Deaf People: 23-29

Sport Purple for Platelets: 29

Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste: 29

Orange Shirt & National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: 30