November 2024
This time of year, fall is in full-swing with changing leaves rapidly leaving their trees, shorter days, frosty mornings, and the first snow along with the twice-yearly time change. Don’t let the fall back leave you behind on sleep or have the slippery November weather have you on your bum.
In This Issue: November 2024 Health and Safety Bulletin
- Fatigue Management
- Fall Prevention
Observances/Awareness:
Month:
Crohn's and Colitis; Pancreatic Cancer; Lung Cancer; Diabetes; Radon Action; Movember; Fall Prevention; Indigenous Disability; Stomach Cancer; National Domestic Violence; Osteoporosis; Pulmonary Hypertension; Long-Term Care
Days/Weeks:
All Saints Day & Day of the Dead: 1
Daylight Savings Ends (Fall Back): 3
Extra Life (Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals): 4
US Election Day & Guy Fawke’s Night: 5
National Pain Awareness Week: 3-9
Polar Bear Week: 3-9
World Neuroendocrine Cancer (NET) Day: 10
Fraud & GERD Awareness Week: 17-23
Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week: 18-24
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day: 19
Trans Day of Remembrance & COPD Day: 20
National Grief and Bereavement Day: 21
Day for People Impacted by Suicide Loss: 23
National Addictions Awareness Week: 24-30
Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women: 25
Remembrance for Victims of Chemical Warfare: 30