Promoting Safety and Health Chapter 12 PDF
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University of Guelph
2020
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This document discusses the promotion of safety and health in the workplace, including learning outcomes, the law, and various workplace hazards. It covers topics such as occupational injury, illness, and workplace violence. The learning outcomes presented help to understand the fundamental principles of building a safe and healthy work environment and common legal requirements.
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Promo%ng Safety and Health Chapter 12 1 1 Learning Outcomes The common elements of federal and provincial occupational health and safety legislation. Measures managers and employees can take to create a safe work environment. Wa...
Promo%ng Safety and Health Chapter 12 1 1 Learning Outcomes The common elements of federal and provincial occupational health and safety legislation. Measures managers and employees can take to create a safe work environment. Ways to control and eliminate various on-the-job health hazards. Programs organizations utilize to build better health among their workforces. 2 Safety and Health: It’s the Law Occupational health and safety is regulated by federal, provincial, and territorial governments. The fundamental duty of every employer is to take every reasonable precaution to ensure employee safety. 3 Safety and Health: It’s the Law Over 1 million work-related injuries each year Roughly $11 billion is paid out to injured workers and their families each year 4 Safety and Health: It’s the Law Occupational injury Any cut, fracture, sprain, or amputation resulting from a workplace accident or from an exposure involving an accident in the work environment. The workers involvement in the accident can be direct or the worker can simply be near enough to the accident to be injured as a result of that. 5 Safety and Health: It’s the Law Occupational illness Any abnormal condition or disorder, other than one resulting from an occupational injury, caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment. – Example: illness through ‘asbestos’ exposure in workplaces. An occupational illness can be acute or chronic; it can result from inhaling, absorbing, ingesting, or directly contacting an inhaling agent. Occupational illnesses are underreported because few diseases are caused solely by work-related factors, and cause and effect can be difficult to determine – for example, a mine worker who has contracted a lung disease but who also smoke heavily. Copyright © 2020 by Nelson Education Ltd. 6 Safety and Health: It’s the Law Copyright © 2020 by Nelson Education Ltd. 7 Du
