Final 1 Flashcards
Is it the government’s job to directly make the workplace safer oneself?
No, that’s why the ERS and the IRS are created 
Is it a committee job to make the workplace safe?
No, it is everyone’s responsibility as an individual within the workplace to make the workplace safe
Who is most responsible for the occupational health and safety within the workplace?
The employer is primarily responsible for OHS 
Within the legal version of the IRS, who has authority?
Every individual has duties
What is the IRS (internal responsibility system)?
IRS is a multi party system
IRS helps resolve many of our current issues in OHS
IRS is a way of allocating responsibility, authority and accountability for safety that proceeds laws
What are the core concepts of the IRS?
Framework for due diligence
Animates OHS management system
90% of what people call safety culture
Resolves conflict between system approach and behaviour based safety
Overcome complacency and plateauing
The evolved to phase 2 quality and creativity
What is the frat house problem?
Everyone shares responsibility for health and safety of persons in the workplace
What is the Spider-Man principal?
Primary responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace should be that of each in the workplace, to the extent of each part, authority, and ability to do so
With great power comes great responsibility
What is the Birket report 1981?
Direct responsibility for safe production, extends to those who are directly responsible for the organization of work
The joint federal provincial inquiry commission into safety and mine and mining plants in Ontario
What is contributive responsibility?
Responsibility extends to those, although not directly responsible for the performance of work, our in a position to contribute to safe production, through consultation, advice, audit inspection, etc.
To health and safety committees, safety department unions, the mines accident prevention, Association of Ontario and the mine health and safety branch
Are health and safety committee safety department local unions seen as decision-making authority?
No, they are rather viewed as immune to improving the quality and sensitivity of the decisions emanating from within the direct responsibility system
What is the role of the government for occupational health and safety?
They defined the minimum safety performance acceptable, and promoting compliance with the requirements establish
Legislation is basic instrument for carrying out this role
What are some positions for direct responsibility?
Employer, Director, President, managers, supervisor, worker
Who are the people that use contributive responsibility?
HNS committee, HS, rep, HS department, union
What are the three rights for the IRS?
- To know about hazards.
- To refuse, unsafe work.
- To participate (through committee)
What groups manage OHS through the committee?
Labour and management
Who comprises the committee for the IRS?
Workers have representatives
Management have representatives
What is the correct description for the IRS (internal responsibility system)?
Element of OHS management system
Individualistic
Primarily about duties
Monitored and supported by the committee
Connected to due diligence
Insure regulatory compliance
From least to greatest who fixes most problems?
A few problems fixed by senior management
Some problems fixed by cooperation between the supervisors and the workers
Majority of the problems fixed by individual workers
For greatest to least who are the individuals that deal with issues?
Some issues dealt with by directors
Majority of issues dealt by officers
Some issues dealt with by managers
Some issues dealt by supervisors
Few Issues identified reported by workers
What is the result of a successful IRS?
Result in risk being continually driven down so that there will be progressively longer interval between accidents or work related illnesses
What are some duties for the Frontline workers?
Follow regulatory procedures
Follow employer procedures
Follow supervisor procedures
Identify defects, contraventions, and danger
Identify opportunities for improvement
Applied discretion to solve OHS problems
Unsolvable problems and opportunities for improvement
What duties are for Frontline supervisors in terms of occupational health and safety?
Coach and train
Job observation
Job planning
Safety talk in Tailboard conferences
Enforce rules and regulation
Discipline
Taking problems and opportunities to senior management
What are the occupational health and safety duties for managers?
OHS performance evaluation
Holding other accountable
Implementing programs
Considering systemwide problems
Taking problems and opportunities to more senior management
What are the duties for senior people in terms of occupational health and safety?
Policy
Competent professionals
Sufficient resource allocation
Leadership
Holding subordinates accountable
Insured development of an OHS system
Ensure periodic system audits
What is the Nova Scotia legislation?
Act that describes international responsibility based on the principles that employers, contractors, contractors, employees, and self-employed persons at a workplace, owner of workplace, a supplier of good to provider of a occupational health and safety service to workplace or an architect or professional engineer, all of whom can affect the health and safety of persons at the workplace, share the responsibility for the health and safety of the persons at the workplace
What is the continued Nova Scotia legislation points?
The primary responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace should be that if each of these parties to the extent of each parties, authority and ability to do so
Includes framework for participation, transfer of information or refusal of unsafe work, all of which are necessary for the parties, to carry out their responsibility pursuant to this act and the regulations and
Nova Scotia legislation supplemented by role of the occupational health and safety division of the department of labor, which is not to assume responsibility for creating a maintaining safe and healthy workplaces, but to establish, and clarify responsibilities of the parties, under the law, and to support them, carrying out the responsibilities, and to intervene appropriately when those responsibilities are not carried out