Health Canada Work Values

Daily Duties at Health Canada:

• Leads the project to update the policy interpretations (reference manuals) for consumer products to be regulated under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act: identifying and analysing gaps within the current reference manuals by comparison with regulatory updates and discussion with project teams, drafts updates and incorporates comments and works with Legal Services to finalize. • Leads the planning, organizing, conduct and evaluation of the results of various scientific and regulatory studies and investigations on the health and safety hazards of consumer products in order to develop innovative solutions and approaches concerning specific product safety issues. • Leads, promotes and monitors special programs aimed at industry to ensure the safety of unregulated products, including promoting the programs and monitoring their effectiveness, and promotes the development of new and revised industry product safety standards and quality control procedures. • Represents the Department at high-level meetings with stakeholder organizations, other government departments and international stakeholder and government organizations to convey complex departmental program directions and policy positions. • Participates on national and international standards-writing bodies in the development and harmonization of complex product safety standards, thus influencing the national program and policy directions of other government and non-government agencies and associations. • Provides expert and authoritative scientific, risk assessment/management, and regulatory advice and interpretations to management, regional inspectors, other federal, provincial and foreign agencies, private industry, and the public. • Provides expertise and leadership in the development and implementation of public information and education programs on the known risks and safe use of consumer products.

What they like about Health Canada:

You give high priority to hiring firms with prestige. Market reputation and prestige of a firm may be determined through on-line research, and conversations with individuals working in your target industry. Note that firms "in the public eye" receive a great deal more critical publicity and attention than those operating with more anonymity. So as you assess your employment opportunities, be sure to seek out the positive aspects of the firm's reputation in addition to noting negative publicity the company may have received.

Tags

Regulatory, Science, Management, French, MS Office

Skills

Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Management, Intellectual Property, MS Office, Fluency in French

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Health Canada: