This congress is a unique opportunity to bring together organizational stakeholders and Canadian researchers in order to exchange their expertise and views on the prevention of work-related stress.

To follow up on the conferences in Vancouver and Toronto, the Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management at Université Laval will be pleased to welcome you to Quebec City. The following themes will be discussed over the course of the day:

• Scientific evidence on work stress interventions;
• Canadian initiatives in preventing work-related stress;
• Establishment of Canadian standards on work-related stress.

We hope that you will be able to participate in this exciting event. It will be a great pleasure for us to welcome you to beautiful Quebec City.

TARGET CLIENTELE

Prevention practitioners, OHS professionals, employers and worker representatives in OHS, researchers, health professionals, occupational physicians and OHS consultants.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGES

French and English are the official languages of the conference. For plenary sessions, simultaneous translation into French or English will be available.

Dr. Tony Lamontagne

Dr. Tony Lamontagne is an associate professor in the McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health & Community Wellbeing, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. His research interests focus on occupational medicine, health promotion and the interaction between these two disciplines. More specifically, his main field of interest is the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve work organization and enhance workers' health.

Dr. Colin Mackay

Dr. Colin Mackay is principal psychologist in the Health and Safety Executive's Human Factors Unit (UK). He is head of policies and research on work stress, musculoskeletal disorders and the human factors associated with occupational health and safety. He is currently working on implementing "stress management standards" in the UK. Dr. Mackay is also a visiting professor at Nottingham University.

Dr. Alain Marchand

Dr. Alain Marchand is an assistant professor at the School of Industrial Relations, Université de Montréal and a researcher at the Health and Prevention Social Research Group (GRASP), Université de Montréal. His research interests focus on intervention and the analysis of the role of occupation and pathogenic conditions of work organization on the occurrence of mental health problems, alcohol abuse and the use of psychotropic drugs.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Brun

Dr. Jean-Pierre Brun is a full professor in the Management Department of the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval in Québec City. He has a Ph.D. in Ergonomics and a Master's in Industrial Sociology. He is the Director of the Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management as well as of the MBA program in OHS Management. His interests include several complementary questions, in particular management systems for occupational prevention, OHS in small- and medium-sized firms, stress and violence at work and youth and safety. 

Mr. Bill Wilkerson

Mr. Bill Wilkerson, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health, Bill also serves as General Chairman of the US/Canada Forum on Mental Health and Productivity. In 2007, Wilkerson was named Chairman of the Mental Health Commission of Canada's Advisory Committee on Mental Health in the Workforce.

Mr. Jean-Pierre Brun, Université Laval
Ms. Barbara Beckett, Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
Ms. Carolyn Dewa, Center for Addiction and Mental Health
Ms. Danielle Laurier, Hydro-Québec
Mr. Alain Lesage, Université de Montréal