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Unit 8 - Health and Safety
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- CKE 2
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- Human Resources Professional Association Ontario
Notes for Unit 8 - Health and Safety - based on Comprehensive Knowledge Exam (CKE2) Preparation Course
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The Three E’s• A traditional approach to occupational health and safety that emphasized engineering, education and enforcement
Health & Safety Legislation
• Prime purpose is to prevent accidents, incidents, and illness.
• Legislation outlines the need for proper protocols, controls, protections, monitoring, reporting and training.
• Every province and territory has regulations covering occupational health and safety
• Federally regulated industries are governed by the Canada Labour Code.
• Occupational injury - Any cut, fracture, sprain or amputation resulting from a workplace accident or from an exposure
involving an accident in the work environment
• Occupational Illness - Any abnormal condition or disorder, other that one resulting from an occupational injury, caused
by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment
Due Diligence
• requires all employers to take every reasonable precaution to prevent workplace accidents, incidents or illness
• Doesn’t mean prevent all, but take precautions
• The expected standard is measured against what a ‘reasonable’ person would expect
Compliance process
• Used by regulators include:
• Inspecting workplaces
• Issuing orders
• Investigating of accidents
• Investigating work refusals
• Resolving disputes
• Issuing fines and closures
• Prosecuting negligent parties
• Bill C-45 allows for personal fines and imprisonment
• Execs, operational managers
Management responsibilities include:
• Providing a hazard-free workplaces, compliance with the applicable statutes and regulations, informing their employees
about safety and health requirements. Keep certain records and ensure supervisors are aware
• Ensuring compliance with the law
• Creating, communicating, and upholding safety policies
• Maintain equipment, materials and protective devices
• Ensure proper work procedures
• Provide a hazard-free environment
• Management responsibilities include monitoring, reporting and maintaining records about:
• Incidents - events that could have lead to an accident
• Accidents - events that caused harm
• Hazards - conditions that have the potential to cause harm
• Occupational Injuries - work-related injuries
• Lost-time Injuries - work-related injuries that result in the employees missing work time
• Occupational Illnesses - abnormal health conditions or disorders caused from working
Employee responsibilities include:
• comply with all applicable acts and regulations, report hazardous conditions or defective equipment and to follow all
employer safety and health rules and regulations.
• Working safely
• Wearing protective equipment
• Complying with safety policies
• Reporting defective equipment
• Reporting workplace hazards
• Reporting unsafe work practices
• Intentional unsafe acts are cause for discipline
, Supervisors responsibilities include:
• advise employees of potential workplace hazards, ensure that works use or wear safety equipment, devices or clothing,
provide written instructions and take every reasonable precaution to guarantee the workers safety.
• Authority over workplace and workers
• Advising employees of potential workplace hazards
• Ensuring workers use safety equipment and devices
• Ensuring workers wear protective clothing
• Providing written work instructions
• Complying with due diligence protocols
Health & Safety Committees responsibilities include:
• establish a non adversarial climate for creating safe and healthy workplaces
• Supporting safety collaboration
• Conducting safety inspections
• Investigate work refusals and work stoppage
• Investigate accidents
• Respond to concerns
• Committees include union, management and employee representation
• Labour and management can work together
• 1 worker and 1 manager are certified
Health & Safety Representatives responsibilities include:
• All the same responsibilities as the H&S Committee
• Regularly inspect the workplace
• Identify workplace hazards
• Be consulted about workplace testing
• Make recommendation to employer
• Investigate work refusals
• Respond to concerns
• Maintain up-to-date records
Recordkeeping
• All data and records required by each specific health and safety related regulation
• Preventative maintenance records
• Work permits to perform dangerous work
• Safety training schedules and records
• Health & Safety written procedures and policies
• Data obtained at all stages of a hazard control process
• Reports pertaining to all hazards, illnesses and injuries
Employees rights include:
• Right to know - information about risk & safety
• Right to participate - protection of own safety (JHSC)
• Right to refuse - without penalty
• Right to stop
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