Occupational Health & Safety Act (35 Questions) Flashcards
As defined in Part IX (Offences and Penalties) of the Occupational Health & Safety Act, R.S.O., 1990 c. 0.1; it states that every person who contravenes or fails to comply with the act is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than .
$100,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than twelve months, or to both
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:
Monthly
In accordance with the Occupational Health & Safety Act 2016, which of the following duties is not a duty of a supervisor?
To Ensure that equipment and protective devices provided by the employer are maintained in good condtion
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 .
Shall remain at a safe place that is as near as reasonably possible to his or her work station
On Victoria Day and Canada Day and the two days immediately preceding and following workers they are:
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, “The Duties of Employers and Other Persons” states:
There is a general duty on employers to take all reasonable precautions to protect the health and safety of workers
A Guide to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, “Enforcement” includes all of the following actions except:
Any employee can contact the Ministry of Labour without the direct knowledge of their internal Joint Health and Safety Committee.
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
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: .
Anyplace in or near to where a worker works. A Workplace could be a building, a mine a construction, 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:
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 that “Where an order has been made to correct a contravention of the Act or Regulations, and the contravention in question is dangerous to the health and safety of a worker, the Inspector may also order that:
The workplace be cleared of workers and access to the workplace be prevented until the hazard is removed. No worker can be required or permitted to enter the workplace except to remove the hazard, and then only if the worker if protected by the hazard
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 .
14 days
The following work is not covered under the Occupational Health and Safety Act:
An owner or occupant doing work on their own private home
Under Duties of employers and other person and specifically in Section 28(1)(b) a worker must:
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 power of the Health and Safety Committee?
Amend standards established under subsection (2). 2016, c. 37, Sched. 16, s. 2.
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is not a duty of the Employer?
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 not Duty of a Supervisor?
Works in the manner and with the protective devices, measures and procedures required by this Act and the regulations
Which of the following is a not Duty of a Supervisor?
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?
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’?
Provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an employer shall develop and maintain a program to implement the policy with respect to workplace violence required under clause 32.0.1 (1) (a)., without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the program shall provide the following except:
The inspector shall, following the investigation referred to in subsection (7), decide whether a circumstance described in clause (6) (a), (b), (b.1) or (c) is likely to endanger the worker or another person
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, to protect a worker from workplace harassment, an employer shall ensure that the following are implemented except for:
The health and safety of workers employed by employers referred to in clause (b) is protected
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, if an employer becomes aware, or ought reasonably to be aware, that domestic violence that would likely expose a worker to physical injury may occur in the workplace, the employer shall,
Take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of the
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Program Harassment; An employer shall, in consultation with the committee or a health and safety representative, if any, develop and maintain a written program to implement the policy with respect to workplace harassment required under clause
32.0.1 (1) (b). Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the program shall,
B Set out how a worker who has allegedly experienced workplace harassment and the alleged harasser, if he or she is a worker of the employer, will be informed of the results of the investigation and of any corrective action that has been taken or that will be taken as a result of the investigation
C Include measures and procedures for workers to report incidents of workplace harassment to a person other than the employer or supervisor, if the employer or supervisor is the alleged harasser
A) Both B & C are correct
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, in Part III.0.1 Violence and Harassment which is not a responsibility of an employer?
State the opinion of the Director as to the likelihood of the danger to the health of a worker, and the Director’s reasons in respect thereof, including the matters or causes which give rise to his or her opinion
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, upon refusing to work or do particular work, the worker shall promptly report the circumstances of the refusal to the worker’s employer or supervisor who shall forthwith investigate the report in the presence of the worker and, if there is such, in the presence of one of the following, except:
The Ministry of Labour inspector who shall issue orders to the employer
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, a worker may refuse to work or do particular work where he or she has reason to believe that,
A) The physical condition of the workplace or the part thereof in which he or she works or is to work is likely to endanger himself or herself
B) Any equipment, machine, device or thing he or she is to use or operate or the physical condition of the workplace or the part thereof in which he or she works or is to work is in contravention of this Act or the regulations and such contravention is likely to endanger himself, herself or another worker
C) Workplace violence is likely to endanger himself or herself
D) All of the above
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, pending the investigation and decision of the inspector, no worker shall be assigned to use or operate the equipment, machine, device or thing or to work in the workplace or in the part of the workplace being investigated unless, in the presence of a person described in subsection (12), the worker has been advised of the other worker’s refusal and of his or her reasons for the refusal. The following are people referred to in subsection (12) include all except:
A competent supervisor
According to the OHSA for reprisals, discipline and dismissal, no employer or person acting on behalf of an employer shall:
A) Impose any penalty upon a worker
B) Intimidate or coerce a worker
C) Dismiss or threaten to dismiss a worker
D) All of the above
Part VII Notices
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, where a person is killed or critically injured from any cause at a workplace, the constructor, if any, and the employer shall notify all of the following except:
Municipal Council
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, where a person is killed or is critically injured at a workplace, no person shall interfere with, disturb, destroy, alter or carry away any wreckage, article or thing at the scene of or connected with the occurrence until permission so to do has been given by an inspector except for:
Saving life or relieving human suffering
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, where a person is killed or is critically injured at a workplace, no person shall interfere with, disturb, destroy, alter or carry away any wreckage, article or thing at the scene of or connected with the occurrence until permission so to do has been given by an inspector except for:
Maintaining an essential public utility service or a public transportation
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, where a person is killed or is critically injured at a workplace, no person shall interfere with, disturb, destroy, alter or carry away any wreckage, article or thing at the scene of or connected with the occurrence until permission so to do has been given by an inspector except for:
Preventing unnecessary damage to equipment or other property
According to OHSA, Obstruction of Committee, which of the following is correct? No person shall knowingly
A) Hinder or interfere with a worker selected by a trade union or trade unions or a worker selected by the workers to represent them in the exercise of a power or performance of a duty under this Act
B) Furnish a committee, a committee member or a health and safety representative with false information in the exercise of a power or performance of a duty under this Act
C) Hinder or interfere with a committee, a committee member or a health and safety representative in the exercise of a power or performance of a duty under this Act
D) D) All of the above
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which of the following is a not Duty of a Supervisor?
The equipment, materials and protective devices as prescribed are provided
