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Importance of chronic pain training for occupational health and safety professionals

Students from all over Quebec enrolled in the occupational health and safety certificate program say they work with clients in pain as part of their job. All too often, however, they have no specific training in this area and feel uncomfortable doing so.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe the knowledge and attitudes of future occupational health and safety practitioners with regard to chronic pain.