OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY ACT Flashcards
As required by the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the physical condition of the workplace is required to be inspected by a Health and Safety representative:
A) Monthly
B) Every three months
C) Every six months
D) Yearly
A) Monthly
According to the Occupational Health & Safety Act, which of the following duties is not a duty of a supervisor?
A) To ensure a worker uses or wears protective equipment and clothing that the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn
B) To ensure that equipment and protective devices provided by the employer are maintained in good condition
C) To advise a worker of the existence of any potential or actual danger to the healthand safety of the worker of which a supervisor is aware
D) To take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker
B) To ensure that equipment and protective devices provided by the employer are maintained in good condition
Under Part V – “Right to Refuse or to Stop Work Where Health and Safety in
Danger”, within the Occupational Health & Safety Act, until the investigation is completed, the worker
A) Shall remain in the office / work station of his or her supervisor
B) Shall be sent home but must be readily available to return to the work site as required
C) Shall remain at a safe place that is as near as reasonably possible to his or her work station
D) Stay in the nearest designated lunchroom
C) Shall remain at a safe place that is as near as reasonably possible to his or herwork station
A Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Section 5 “The Rights of
Workers” gives basic rights to workers, they are:
A) The Right to Participate, the Right to know, the Right to Refuse Work, the Right to stop Work
B) The Right to Participate, the Right to Refuse Work, the Right to Stop Work.
C) The Right to ensure that protective devices are cleaned regularly
D) The Right to be provided equipment, materials and protective devices as
prescribed
A) The Right to Participate, the Right to know, the Right to Refuse Work, the Right
to stop Work
A Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, “Workplace Violence and Workplace Harassment” states the following are key requirements of the Act with respect to workplace violence and workplace harassment:
A) Policies, Programs, Information and Instruction, Assessment of Risks,
Results of an Assessment or Reassessment, Domestic Violence,
General Duties and Application to Workplace Violence, and Work Refusal
B) Information and Instruction, Assessment of Risks, Reassessment, Domestic Violence,General Duties and Application to Workplace Violence, and Work Refusal
C) Policies, General Duties and Application to Workplace Violence, and Work Refusal
D) Policies, Programs, Assessment of Risks, Results of an Assessment or
Reassessment, General Duties and Application to Workplace Violence
A) Policies, Programs, Information and Instruction, Assessment of Risks,
Results of an Assessment or Reassessment, Domestic Violence,
General Duties and Application to Workplace Violence, and Work
Refusal
A Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, defines a Workplace as:
A) An institution or physical building
B) Vehicles are exempted from this definition
C) Any place in or near to where a worker works. A workplace could be a
building, a mine a construction site, an open field a road, a forest or even a beach
D) Workplaces under Federal (Government of Canada) jurisdiction are not covered by the Act
C) Any place in or near to where a worker works. A workplace could be a
building, a mine a construction site, an open field a road, a forest or even
a beach
A Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, “Enforcement” states that if a person is critically injured or killed at a workplace, no person can alter the scene where the injury occurred in any way without the permission of an Inspector. This does not apply if it is necessary to disturb the scene in order to:
A) You can never alter the scene where an injury occurred without the permission of an Inspector.
B) The scene can only be altered when the accident investigation has been
completed
C) Save a life or relive human suffering, maintain an essential public utility service or public transportation system or prevent unnecessary damage to equipment or other property
D) The inspector will be accompanied by a representative of the Employer and the workers, and they will collectively decide if the scene can be disturbed
C) Save a life or relive human suffering, maintain an essential public utility service or public transportation system or prevent unnecessary damage to equipment or other property
A Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, “Enforcement” states: The employer must post copies of both the notice of compliance and the original order in a place where they are most likely to be seen by workers for a period of:
A) 14 days
B) A minimum of 1 month
C) One week and then the notice must be directed to the Officer in Charge of the
station to see
D) That it is immediately filed in the JHSC file for that station
A) 14 days
According to the Occupational Health & Safety Act, under Duties of Employers and other person and specifically in Section 28(1)(b) a worker must:
A) Work in compliance with the Act except if it is an emergency situation
B) Report to the employer any missing equipment that prevents them from doing theirjob
C) Use or wear any equipment, protective devices or clothing required by the employer
D) All of the above
C) Use or wear any equipment, protective devices or clothing required by the employer
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is not a duty of the Employer?
A) The measures and procedures prescribed are carried out in the workplace
B) The equipment, materials and protective devices as prescribed are provided
C) Work in compliance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations
D) The equipment, materials and protective devices provided by the employer are maintained in good condition
C) Work in compliance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is a Duty of a Supervisor?
A) Remove or make ineffective any protective device required by the regulations or by his or her employer, without providing an adequate temporary protective device and when the need for removing or making ineffective the protective device has ceased, the protective device shall be replaced immediately
B) Post at a conspicuous location in the workplace a copy of the occupational health and safety policy
C) Works in the manner and with the protective devices, measures and procedures required by this Act and the regulations
D) The workplace complies with the regulations
C) Works in the manner and with the protective devices, measures and procedures required by this Act and the regulations
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is a not
Duty of a Supervisor?
A) Advise a worker of the existence of any potential or actual danger to the health or
safety of the worker of which the supervisor is aware
B) The equipment, materials and protective devices as prescribed are provided
C) Where so prescribed, provide a worker with written instructions as to the
measures and procedures to be taken for protection of the worker
D) Works in the manner and with the protective devices, measures and procedures
required by this Act and the regulations
B) The equipment, materials and protective devices as prescribed are provided
According to the Occupational Health & Safety Act, which of the following is a not Duty of a Supervisor?
A) Take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker
B) Uses or wears the equipment, protective devices or clothing that the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn
C) Advise a worker of the existence of any potential or actual danger to the health or safety of the worker of which the supervisor is aware
D) Acquaint a worker or a person in authority over a worker with any hazard in the work and in the handling, storage, use, disposal and transport of any article,
device, equipment or a biological, chemical or physical agent
D) Acquaint a worker or a person in authority over a worker with any hazard in the work and in the handling, storage, use, disposal and transport of any article,
device, equipment or a biological, chemical or physical agent
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is a not Duty of a Worker?
A) Report to his or her employer or supervisor the absence of or defect in any equipment or protective device of which the worker is aware and which may endanger himself, herself or another worker
B) Take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker
C) Use or wear the equipment, protective devices or clothing that the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn
D) Report to his or her employer or supervisor any contravention of this Act or the regulations or the existence of any hazard of which he or she knows.
B) Take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is incorrect, 28 (2) ‘No worker shall’?
A) Engage in any prank, contest, feat of strength, unnecessary running or rough and boisterous conduct
B) Provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker
C) Use or operate any equipment, machine, device or thing or work in a manner that may endanger himself, herself or any other worker
D) Remove or make ineffective any protective device required by the regulations or by his or her employer, without providing an adequate temporary protective device and when the need for removing or making ineffective the protective device has ceased, the protective device shall be replaced immediately
B) Provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker
