DEFINITIONS Flashcards
Occupational health and Safety
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Board -
- means the Ontario Labour Relations Board; (“Commission”)
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committee
means a joint health and safety committee established under this Act
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**competent person** means a person who (three)
- Is qualified because of what ? To organize what ?
- Is familiar with what act ?
- Has knowledge of any potential what ?
- is qualified because of knowledge, training and experience to organize the work and its performance,
- is familiar with this (Act) and the regulations that apply to the work
- has knowledge of any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace
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**designated substance**
- What three kinds of agents ?
- Exposure to a worker is what ?
means a biological, chemical or physical agent or combination thereof prescribed as a designated substance to which the exposure of a worker is prohibited, regulated, restricted, limited or controlled
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employer
- Employs who ?
- Includes who ?
means a person who employs one or more workers or contracts for the services of one or more workers and includes a contractor or subcontractor who performs work or supplies services and a contractor or subcontractor who undertakes with an owner, constructor, contractor or subcontractor to perform work or supply services
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hazardous material
- What two kinds of agents ?
means a biological or chemical agent named or described in the regulations as a hazardous material
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**occupational illness**
- A condition that results from exposre to what three agents ?
- That extend that ?
- Worker is entitled to what ?
- means a condition that results from exposure in a workplace to a physical, chemical or biological agent to the extent that the normal physiological mechanisms are affected** and **the health of the worker is impaired thereby and includes an occupational disease for which a worker is entitled to benefits under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act
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**supervisor**
- A person who has charge of a what ?
- Authority over whom ?
means a person who has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker
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***worker (four things)***
- A person who performs work for ?
- A secondary student who performs work for ?
- A person who performs work for what program ?
- Supply services for what ?
- **A person who performs work or supplies services for monetary compensation. **
- A secondary school student who performs work or supplies services for no monetary compensation under a work experience program authorized by the school board that operates the school in which the student is enrolled.
- A person who performs work or supplies services for no monetary compensation under a program approved by a college of applied arts and technology, university, private career college or other post-secondary institution.
- Such other persons as may be prescribed who perform work or supply services to an employer for no monetary compensation
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workplace
means any land, premises, location or thing at, upon, in or near which a worker works
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workplace harassment
- What kind of comment or conduct against a worker ?
- ❤️CAN ALSO BE WHAT KIND OF HARRASSMENT?
- engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or OR WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT
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**workplace sexual harassment**
- A vexatious comment conduct against a worker because of what ?
- Making a sexual advance where the person making it is in what position ?
- engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or
- making a sexual solicitation or advance where the person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome
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**workplace violence**
- the exercise of physical force by a person against a worker, in a workplace, that causes or could cause physical injury to the worker,
- an attempt to exercise physical force against a worker, in a workplace, that could cause physical injury to the worker,
- a statement or behaviour that it is reasonable for a worker to interpret as a threat to exercise physical force against the worker, in a workplace, that could cause physical injury to the worker
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**A reasonable action taken by an employer or supervisor relating to the management and direction of workers or the workplace is ?**
- This is NOT considered what ?
IS NOT workplace harrassment
(example giving orders or telling people what to do)
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health and safety management system**
- A coordinated sysem of what ?
- Implemented by whom ?
**means a coordinated system of procedures, processes and other measures that is designed to be implemented by employers in order to _promote continuous improvement in occupational health and safety**_
