OHSA Flashcards
Occupational Health and Safety Act
A “competent person” means a person who,
(a) is qualified because of knowledge, training and experience to organize the work and its performance,
(b) is familiar with this Act and the regulations that apply to the work, and
(c) has knowledge of any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace;
Occupational Health and Safety Act
What is the definition of a “supervisor”?
“supervisor” means a person who has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker
Occupational Health and Safety Act
What is the definition of a “workplace”?
“workplace” means any land, premises, location or thing at, upon, in or near which a worker works;
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Define “workplace harassment”
“workplace harassment” means,
(a) 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
(b) workplace sexual harassment;
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Define “workplace sexual harassment”
“workplace sexual harassment” means,
(a) 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
(b) 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;
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Define “workplace violence”
(a) the exercise of physical force by a person against a worker, in a workplace, that causes or could cause physical injury to the worker,
(b) an attempt to exercise physical force against a worker, in a workplace, that could cause physical injury to the worker,
(c) 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.
Occupational Health and Safety Act
The duties of a Supervisor include:
Duties of supervisor 27
(1) A supervisor shall ensure that a worker,
(a) works in the manner and with the protective devices, measures and procedures required by this Act and the regulations; and
(b) uses or wears the equipment, protective devices or clothing that the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn.
Occupational Health and Safety Act
The duties of a Supervisor, additional duties include:
(2) Without limiting the duty imposed by subsection (1), a supervisor shall,
(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) where so prescribed, provide a worker with written instructions as to the measures and procedures to be taken for protection of the worker; and
(c) take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Duties of workers (4)
Duties of workers 28 (1) A worker shall,
(a) work in compliance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations;
(b) use or wear the equipment, protective devices or clothing that the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn;
(c) 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; and
(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.
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Refusal to work Non-application to certain workers
** When does “refusal to work” NOT apply for Firefighters
(a) when a circumstance described in clause (3) (a), (b), (b.1) or (c) is inherent in the worker’s work or is a normal condition of the worker’s employment; or
(b) when the worker’s refusal to work would directly endanger the life, health or safety of another person.
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Refusal to work (3)
A worker may refuse to work or do particular work where he or she has reason to believe that:
(a) any equipment, machine, device or thing the worker is to use or operate is likely to endanger himself, herself or another worker;
(b) 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. 1) workplace violence is likely to endanger himself or herself; or
(c) 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.
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Preservation of wreckage (2)
Where a person is killed or is critically injured at a workplace, no person shall, except for the purpose of:
(a) ? (b) ? (c) ?
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.
(a) saving life or relieving human suffering;
(b) maintaining an essential public utility service or a public transportation system; or
(c) preventing unnecessary damage to equipment or other property,
OHSA Reg - FF protective equipment
No firefighter shall travel on board a fire truck that is moving at more than ? km an hour unless he or she is seated within the cab.
8 km/h
OHSA Reg - Awareness and Training
Who ensures that workers complete a basic occupational health and safety awareness training program?
The employer
OHSA Reg - Noise
Every employer shall ensure that no worker is exposed to a sound level greater than an equivalent sound exposure level of?
85 dBA
