About Occupational Health Centre

The Occupational Health Centre works with a variety of newcomer cultural communities in Manitoba to increase their capacity around workplace health and safety through a Train the Trainer Program. Community trainers trained by OHC provide workshops and individual assistance for workers in their first languages. This community development program is funded through Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship Canada and is available to permanent residents. Through this program, OHC also provides short term counselling for newcomers experiencing a work-related injury or illness.

OHC also delivers special programs and works with newcomer and migrant workers in the province's meat and poultry processing plants, as well as with nail salon workers from the Vietnamese community.

OHC's medical, information, and educational programming are available free of charge to all in Manitoba and funded through the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.