Lesson 2 Flashcards
What is the 1884 Ontario factories act?
Stopped child labour, established rules of conduct for factories
What is the 1914 Ontario workmen’s compensation act?
To allow injured workers to be compensated appropriately without having t or take their employers to court
What is the 1935 industrial act?
Rules for employers regarding pay and hours to work
What is the 1972 occupational health and safety act (SASK)?
Joint health and safety committees (Jhsc)
Standard throughout the world
What is the 1974 ham commission?
Developed internal responsibility system (IRS)
Gives responsibility to both employers and workers to cooperate and control OHS hazards
Self-regulating
Formed the basis of Ontario’s OHS act in 1978
What is the 1987 workplace hazardous material information systems?
Established criteria for identifying and labelling hazardous matierals
National communication system
Part of “right to know”
What are the three fundamental rights of workers?
Right to participate
Right to know
Right to refuse any unsafe work
Where did 3 fundamental rights of workers come from?
Originated from joint health and safety committees
What is the OHS legislation?
Governed by provincial level, federal workplaces within province must comply with federal legislation
OHS is purview of the Ministry of labour, immigration, training and skills development (MLITSD), other provinces have different laws
What is an act?
Document containing laws —> set of rules
What is a regulation?
Specific rules that support another legislation
What is the difference between act and regulation?
Act may require workers to use correct procedures, but details of these prescribed procedures is found d regulations
What is the occupational health and safety act?
Set of rules, ensuring workers to use equipment/protective devices or clothing that workers employer requires to be used or worn
What is the industrial establishment regulation?
How to comply with the acts, worker exposed to hazard of eye injury shall wear eye protection appropriate in the circumstances
What are the OHS regulation?
- Safety regulations - govern various types of workplaces
- Designated substances - 11 agents, e.g. known carcinogens
- General - includes occupational exposure limits for chemicals, WHIMIS
- Hazardous physical agents - x rays
- Regulations that directly affect/ impact the act
What are written procedures?
Details safe and Healthy ways to perform job tasks
What are standards?
Operational principle, criterion, or requirement pertaining to work conditions, methods, equipment or materials in the workplace
Developed by government, professional organization and technical/trade associations
What are codes?
Set of standards, rules, or regulations relating to a specific area
Minimum requirements of a building
What is an employer?
Person who employs one or more workers for services of an individual, who performs work or supplies services
What are the duties of an employer?
Equipment, materials and protective devices are provided
Equipment, materials and protective devices provided by employer are maintained in good condition
Measures and procedures are carried out in the workplace
Equipment, materials and protective devices provided by employer used as prescribed
Building, structure or any part can support any loads that may be applied to it
Take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of the worker
What are the supervisors duties?
Advice worker of potential danger to health or safety of worrier of which supervisor is aware
Provide worker with written instructions, measures and procedures to be taken for protection of the worker
Take every precaution reasonable in circumstances for protection of worker
What are the duties of a worker?
Person performing work or supplies services for monetary compensation
High school student performing work or supplies services for no money under a work experience program
Person who performs works and supplies services for no money under program approached by college or university
Perform work or supply services to an employer for no monetary compensation
What are the workers duties?
Work in compliance with provisions of this act and regulations
Use or wear equipment, protective devices, clothing that workers employer requires to be used or worn
Report to supervisor absence or defect in any equipment or protective device of which the worker is aware and which may endanger himself, herself or antlers worker
Report any contravention of this act, or regulations or existence of any hazard
What are the penalties if they do not follow the regulations?
If they do not follow the acts or regulations, order or requirement of inspector, offer of the minister, will get a fine of more than $500,000 or to imprisonment for a term
What are the steps that supervisors do for prevention?
Prevention must be in the workplace, local knowledge and history of workplace and work practices is crucial to accident prevention
Ontario legislation says everyone can cause accidents, everyone should be involved in preventing them
Everyone has a role, everyone is involved
What does the internal responsibility system do for the employers and employers?
Everyone in workplace is responsible for their own safety and safety of co-workers
Establishes responsibility sharing systems
Promotes safety cultures
Promotes best practices
Help develop self reliance
Ensures compliance
What is the basic structure of the IRS?
Accountability goes up the ladders to the supervisors however delegating responsibility and authority goes down the ladder
Can the health and safety legislation requirements?
No, they can only represents the minimum requirement, cannot apply in every situation
Have limited MLITSD officers
Mandates changes from time to time, be aware of changes
What is the joint health and safety committees?
Composed of workers and employer representative
Goal is to identify and solve health and safety problems in the workplace
JHSC holds regular meetings and conducts regular workplace inspections and makes written recommendations to employer
Key functioning IRS
What are the main function for the joint health and safety committee (JHSC)?
- Recognize workplace hazards
- Evaluate hazard and risks that can cause injuries,etc
- Participate in development and implementation programs to protect employees
- Respond to complains and suggestions concerning safety and health
- Monitor injury and work hazard records
- Monitor and follow-up hazard reports and recommend action
- Set up and promote programs to improve employee training and education
- Participate in safety inquiries and investigations
- Consult with professional experts
- Participate in resolving workplaces refusals and work stoppages
- Recommendations to management for incident prevention
- Monitor effective’s of safety and program
How many JHSC workers for 1 to 5?
Not required unless has designated substances
How many JHSC workers for 6 to 19?
Required 1, selected by workers
How many JHSC workers for 20 to 49?
Required 2 JHSC members
How many JHSC workers for 50+?
Required 4 JHSC members
Can anyone be JHSC members?
Yes, but at least half of the members must be workers with no managerial functions
What are the JHSC Ontario responsibilities?
Names posted in workplace
Meet at least 3 months
Record mins of meeting and posted 1 week after meeting
Receive workers concerns, complains, recommendations
Participates in work refusals
Is health and safety the same term?
No, different
Some is not safe, accident can occur
Something hazardous to health, lead to disease or physiological impairment
What are the top claim types of 2022/2023?
Sprains and strains
Covid 19
What are slips?
Persons centre of gravity is suddenly thrown out of balance, due to loss of friction
What are trips?
Person encounters unseen object in his/her own path
What are falls?
Individual falls from elevated platform
What are prevention methods of slips?
Clean up spills/ good housekeeping
Proper footwear
Not run
What are prevention methods of trips?
Keep high foot traffic areas clear
Repair loose carpeting or tile
Ensure adequate lighting
What are prevention methods of falls?
Three point contact at all times
Install guardrails
Use fall arrest system - harness
Safety tips for stool or ladders?
All feet of ladder are level
Ensure step stool spread fully open, spreaders are locked in place
Proper shoes
Face towed step stool when going up or down
Do not stack step stools, chairs, etc, to reach higher heights
Step up step stool close to work being performed, body near middle of steps, prevent tipping when reaching over
Do not hold objects in hand
What are fire hazards?
Conditions that favour ignition and spreading of fire
What are the chemical reactions that cause fire/combustion?
Oxygen and combustible fuel
What is a ignition temperature?
Temperature which a given fuel can burst into flames
What are the three elements that start and sustain a fire?
Oxygen, fuel and heat
Two major outcomes of a fire?
Burning and suffocation
What are fire safety prevention tips?
Practice good workplace/housekeeping —> no debris
Report electrical hazards
Store and use chemicals safely
Use precautions to prevent ignition in potentially explosive atmosphere, using non-sparking tools and control static electricity
Never block sprinklers, firefighting equipment or emergency exits
Know closest exits and practice evacuation
Learn to use fire extinguisher
What is the fire extinguisher acronym?
Pass
Pull, aim squeeze, sweep
What are class A fire?
Ordinary combustibles, wood, paper, rubber, etc
Extinguishers are water, dry powder, halon
What are class B fires?
Flammable liquids, gases, gasoline, oils, paint, lacquer and tar
Types of extinguisher: C02, dry power, halon
What are class C fires?
Fires involving live electrical equipment
Extinguishers: C02, DRY POWER, HALON
What are class D fires?
Comubistible metals or comubstible metal alloys
Extinguishers: Special agents
What are class K fires?
Fires in cooking appliances, involve combustible cooking media
What are fire prevention tips?
Least flammable materials
Appropriate fire extinguishers available
Install smoke detection system s
Store flammable materials away from heat source
Use smallest fuel container size
What are electrical basics?
Electricity flows through a conductors like a wire.
What is a amp?
Electric current, rate at which an electricity flow is measured
What is a voltage?
Pressure in the wire is called a voltage
What are watts?
The power that the electricity can provide
How much power is released in a second
What are electrical hazards?
Exposed electrical parts
Wet conditions
Using damaged tools/equipment
Circuit overload - when the circuit supply’s to much power to different cords
Improper grounding
Damaged insulation - bare wire exposure sulking in shock to anyone who comes into contact with wire
What causes damaged insulation?
Direct sunlight leading to degradation
Wire in contact with abrasive surfaces
Animals chewing on insulation
Repeated exposure to elevated temperatures
