agreements

Question 1

occupational health and safety act

Answer 1

defines the rights and responsibilities of employees in their workplace to ensure their health and safety. put in place to remind companies the importance of making profit but also to look after health and safety of workers

Question 2

ohsa workers rights

Answer 2

right to refuse unsafe work, right to participate in workplace health and safety activities, right to know about actual hazards in the workplace

Question 3

canadian human rights act

Answer 3

states the employees with disabilities must be accommodated by business as long as undue hardship does not occur to the business

Question 4

environmental protection act

Answer 4

protection and conservation of the natural environemtn

Question 5

employment standards act

Answer 5

work rights and obligations

Question 6

kyoto protocol

Answer 6

signed in 1998. states countries must reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2012

Question 7

paris agreement

Answer 7

aims to strengthen countries’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change. sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C

Question 8

personal information protection and electronic documents act

Answer 8

rules for the collection, use and access of personal information