The Canadian Forces health services group also provides unique occupational and environmental health care that must be prepared to operate effectively under hostile conditions in any climate and terrain in the world, and it experiences frequent extraction of its health care providers for associated training and tasking requirements.

This Directive does not affect terms and conditions of employment, including maximum work periods and minimum rest periods, minimum paid annual holidays, minimum rates of pay as well as health, safety and hygiene at work, which Member States apply in compliance with Community law, nor does it affect relations between social partners, including the right to negotiate and conclude collective agreements, the right to strike and to take industrial action in accordance with national law and practices which respect Community law, nor does it apply to services provided ...[+++]by temporary work agencies.

Appropriate garments and equipment for personal protection and hygiene must be provided in each relevant department of the tissue establishment along with written hygiene and gowning instructions.

To show that the Canadian government, the Government of Ontario, and other credible organizations agree that DDT, hexachlorobenzene, and other pesticides are carcinogens and cause other terrible illnesses, we have the following: a description from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, a federal government agency, of the harmful effects of DDT and benzene, including the fact that they are carcinogens; an article quoting Johanne Gélinas, the federal environment commissioner, to the effect that pesticides have been linked to lung disease, reproductive problems, birth defects, cancers, developmental disorders, allergic reactions, lowered resistance to diseases, and othe ...[+++]r illnesses; an article from Ontario showing that Worker's Compensation and the occupational health clinics for Ontario agree that benzene, to which we were exposed, is a known carcinogen; a position paper for the Canadian Associationof Physicians for the Environment indicating the biological effects of DDT exposure; a recent release from the Ontario College of Family Physicians indicating that pesticides are too harmful to use in any form and that exposure to pesticides causes brain cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, and leukemia, among many other acute illnesses; and a list from OHIP that indicates the 53 different diseases and disorders with which I have been diagnosed in a seven-year period from 1987 to 1994 (1540) Further, to indicate that the Canadian army exposed troops to DDT, benzene hexacholoride, and other pesticides, I have the following: a copy of four pages from the Canadian Military Handbook of Army Health, issued in 1950, indicating that Canadian soldiers and their clothing should be sprayed with DDT and benzene hexacholoride, clearly indicating exposure; a letter from Paul Marsden, archivist for the military section of the government archives division, stating that DDT was used as a pesticide on soldiers while serving in Korea; a letter fro ...

(h) reduce unsafe abortions by decreasing the number of unwanted pregnancies through the provision of family planning services, compassionate counselling and information, including the use of contraception, and by investing in the training and equipping of suitable staff, including medical service personnel, to manage under hygienic and safe conditions the complications resulting from unsafe abortion.

As a result of this crisis, the Commission decided to restructure its safety protection and food hygiene departments by separating the departments responsible for drawing up legislation, scientific consultation and inspection and by improving the transparency and dissemination of information.