• Introducing RECYC ECO: a new Certification program

January 16, 2012 – Mr. Pierre Arcand, Québec's Minister for Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs, unveiled a new certification program for products with recycled content – RECYC ECO and its new identifying label. The announcement was made at Kamik's recycled rubber boot plant, in the Saint-Laurent borough, in the presence of Jean-Marc Fournier, M.P. for Saint-Laurent and Minister of Justice, Ginette Bureau, President and CEO of RECYC-QUÉBEC, Sylvain Allard, standards development of the Bureau de Normalisation du Québec (BNQ), and Joe Bichai, Vice-President of Manufacturing at Kamik.

— Press release (2012-01-16)

— BNQ 8952-911 Recycled-Content Products - Certification Program (presently only available in French)

• A new National Standard of Canada in the field of psychological health in the workplace to be developed

A new National Standard of Canada in the field of psychological in the workplace to be developed.

After finalizing the « Healthy Enterprise » and « Work-Family Balance » standards, the BNQ is once again lending its expertise in standards development to produce a new standard in the field of psychological health in the workplace.

Currently under development, the new standard will provide methods to businesses of any size that will lead to measurable improvements in psychological in the workplace. The main objectives targeted by the standard are: to improve the cost-profit index in Canadian businesses, to improve risk management and to promote a sense of social responsibility among businesses.

It is at the request of and through the funding of the Mental Health Commission of Canada that this standard will be developed. The standard development work will be undertaken jointly by the BNQ and the CSA using the best international standards development practices now available.

— Press release (2011-06-16)

— Committee members (9700-Z1003)