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Introduction

Health and Safety at Work
Health and Safety at Work
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This module explains your rights and responsibilities on your job and the things that you need to know and understand so that you can be safe at work today and every day. Everyone in the workplace, from the employer to the newest worker, has different but important duties to keep the workplace safe. Because employers have the most authority in the workplace, they have the greatest responsibility but it’s important for your own safety that you understand everyone’s health and safety duties, including yours.

The purpose of this module is to give you specific information and instructions about how to stay safe on your job, prevent injuries and illnesses
What you learn from this module will help you start to understand those instructions. We hope you will use what you learn here every day of your working life.

Task

Get to know with hazards
Get to know with hazards
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Get involved

Working together for safety

Understanding the Health and Safety Act is all about knowing the health and safety

duties of employers, supervisors and the duties and rights of workers, and putting them into action.

We all have to get involved.

If an employer knows about a hazard and doesn’t try to eliminate or reduce it, or make sure the workers are told about it and how to deal with it, that employer is not doing what the law requires.

If a supervisor knows about a hazard and doesn’t explain to the workers how to deal with it, that supervisor is not doing what the law requires.

If a worker knows about a hazard and doesn’t report it to the supervisor or the employer, that worker is not doing what the law requires.

If you see a hazard on the job, you have a duty to speak up. This includes reporting

equipment that isn’t working right.

It’s important that you report to your supervisor or employer any injury, incident or close call, so that they can prevent those kinds of things from happening again in the future.

The right to participate in health and safety gives you the right to participate and get involved in keeping your workplace safe and healthy. There are many ways you can do this. Can you think of three?

Here are four good ways to get involved in keeping your workplace safe, but there are many more:

1. You can ask questions when you’re not sure about something.

2. You can volunteer to become a worker health and safety representative or a worker member

of the joint health and safety committee.

3. You can help your health and safety representative or joint health and safety committee with

health and safety inspections by pointing out possible hazards in your work area.

4. You can take your health and safety training seriously and put what you learn into practice

in your job.

What to look for and what to ask

Your employer must post health and safety information in your workplace, such as an occupational health and safety poster. Look for the posted names of your health and safety representative or joint health and safety committee members – these are people you can talk to if you need help. And if your workplace has more than 5 workers, your employer has to post the company health and safety policy.

If you can’t find any of this information in your workplace, talk to your supervisor about it.

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and safety is an important part of his or her job. You can also talk to the people you work with and benefit from each other’s experience.

Always be on the lookout for hazards to yourself or others. Before you start your work day, ask yourself questions like:

› Is any of the machinery broken?

› Are there warning labels or signs?

› Is there any moving equipment I could get caught in?

› Is there something I could slip or trip on?

› Do I need protective equipment?

› Do I know how to do this job safely?

Can you think of any other questions to ask yourself? Here are a couple of examples.

Try to list a few more.

› Is there another worker nearby who could get hurt by what I’m doing?

› Is this task more than I can physically handle?

These are good questions for everyone in the workplace to ask. Prevention starts here, by paying attention to details and by following the OHSA and the workplace health and safety procedures.

Process

Step 3 quiz

Here is a quick quiz on this part of the program. (The answers are in the back of the workbook,

but please don’t look at them ahead of time.)

1. It’s important that you know the safe way to do your job. You should share what you know.

If you see a hazard, you must report it to your supervisor or employer.

Yes ❏ No ❏

2. You should get involved in health and safety by asking questions, and you should put what

you learn from training into practice on the job.

Yes ❏ No ❏

3. If you can’t find any health and safety information posted in your workplace, you should just

go back to work and not worry about it.

Yes ❏ No ❏

4. Your health and safety representative or joint health and safety committee can help you with

any concerns that you might have about working safely.

Yes ❏ No ❏

5. It’s OK to take safety shortcuts to get the work done faster and on time.

Yes ❏ No ❏

 

Conclusion

The purpose of this module is to give you specific information and instructions about how to stay safe on your job, prevent injuries and illnesses What you learn from this module will help you start to understand those instructions. We hope you will use what you learn here every day of your working life.

Evaluation

Learning Outcomes

  • ● This will help participants to highlight the importance of Health and Safety at Working Environment

Knowledge acquired

  • Participant will learn how to understand their rights and obligations regarding their safety at workplace.

Skills acquired

  • Participant will acquire skills of protecting their rights regarding health and safety at Work.

Competences acquired

  • Participant will be able to reflect on awareness on Health and Safety Issues at work.