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Learning Objectives 1. Our Staff/Location/Roles 2. Occupational Health & Safety Duties and Rights  Know your Hazards and rights 3. OHS Concerns and Incidents  Incidence reporting (WSIB)  Workplace accommodations 4. Pre-Employment Work Requirements 5. Participate to mitigate specific healthcare risks  BBP  Back Care  WHMIS  Slips Trips and Falls 6. Employee Assistance program

Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Staff Members OHS Administration 1. OHS Manager 2. Occupational Health Medical Director 3. Employee & Abilities Assistant Health & Abilities Benefits 1. Employee Health & Abilities Consultant – STD/LTD 2. Employee Health and Abilities Consultant – STD/LTD 3. Employee Health & Abilities Consultant - WSIB 4. Attendance Management Safety & Wellness Occupational Health Requirements & Injury Support 1. Safety and Wellness Coordinator 1. Occupational Health Nurse 2. OHS Specialist 2. Occupational Health Nurse

Our Department Wilson • Located on the 4 th Floor • Ext. 82700 Main Number Finch • Main floor – First Aid and Fit Testing Room • Ext. TBD

Everyone has a role in Safety • HRH is committed and promotes a healthy & safe workplace for employees, volunteers, students, physicians, and contractors. • HRH will comply with the Occupational Health Safety Act, Legislation • HRH will have a Occupational Health & Safety Policy • Every job has opportunities to grow. You’re learning new skills and meeting new people. But every job has hazards, no matter how safe it looks. • The number of people in Ontario who suffer a work-related illness or injury each year would fill the seats of a dozen big hockey arenas. • That’s because they often aren’t told about or don’t understand the hazards of the job. Studies show that new and young Workers/Students in Ontario are four times more likely to get hurt during their first month on the job than at any other time.

Policy vs. Legislation Occupational Occupational Health & Safety Policy Health & Safety Act OHSA • Internal Responsibility System (IRS): • OHSA is a set of laws that spells out the • Assumes that the responsibility for creating duties of employers, supervisors and the and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace rights and duties of Workers/Students; the applies to all Workers/Students within all levels hazards of the job. of the organization. • The whole point of the OHSA and • Precautionary Principle: Regulations is to keep Workers/Students • Indicates that action to reduce risk need not be from getting hurt or sick on the job. postponed in order to await scientific certainty. • The OHSA gives everyone in the workplace duties. These duties are connected to the level of authority each person has in the workplace.

Duties of the Duties of your Duties of Workers/Students Employer (HRH) Supervisor 1. Have knowledge of any potential or 1. Tell Workers/Students about 1. Workers/Students have to follow the actual danger to health or safety in hazards and dangers in the law and workplace health and safety the workplace. workplace and show them how policies and procedures. 2. Make sure Workers/Students and to work safely . 2. Workers/Students have to use and supervisors know about hazards in wear the protective equipment 2. Make sure Workers/Students the work they do and provide them required by the employer. follow the law and the with information, instruction and 3. Workers/Students have to act in a supervision to protect their health workplace health and safety and safety. way that won’t hurt themselves or policies and procedures. 3. Take steps to eliminate hazards in the anyone else. 3. Make sure Workers/Students workplace, and where elimination is 4. If Workers/Students see anything wear and use the right not possible, to control that’s unsafe or that goes against the protective equipment. 4. Make sure Workers/Students use Act, they have to tell the employer and wear protective equipment, 4. Do everything reasonable to about it, so that you can take the material and devices where required keep Workers/Students from necessary steps with your employer by the regulations. getting hurt or sick on the job to solve the problem. 5. Do everything reasonable in the circumstances to protect Workers/Students from being hurt or getting a work-related illness.

Worker’s or Student’s Three Rights by Legislation 1. You have the right under the OHSA to be told about the hazards in the work you do and to be instructed on how to 1. Right to know do your work safely. • If someone asks you to do work that you don’t know enough about, your employer and supervisor are responsible for making sure you 2. Right to Participate know how to do the work safely. That’s why you have the right to speak up and ask questions — even if you are shy or unsure. 3. Right to Refuse 2. You have the right to participate in your safety through the Joint Health & Safety Committee and by identifying hazards • It’s against the law for your employer or your supervisor to punish you in any way for doing what the OHSA says or for asking your employer or supervisor to do what the OHSA expects them to do. This is called a “reprisal” 3. You also have a right to refuse to do unsafe work if you have reason to believe it puts you or a fellow worker in danger.

Worker’s or Student’s Three Rights: Right to know. It’s your supervisors' job to tell you about any health or safety hazards and to show them how to work safely. For example, the law says Workers/Students have to receive information and training on the chemicals or hazardous materials that are used, handled or stored at work. This information is available either on warning labels or information sheets. Sometimes you may also have to give the worker written instructions on how to do the work. The employer supports the Workers/Students’ right to know by making sure they get: 1. Information about the hazards in the work they are doing. 2. Training to do the work in a healthy and safe way. 3. Competent supervision to stay healthy and safe. That means the employer has made sure that you know how to do your job.

Worker’s or Student’s Three Rights: Right to know A job specific hazard is anything in the workplace that could hurt you or the people you work with. Here are some typical job specific hazards at HRH: 1. Repeating the same movements over and over, especially if you are in an awkward position or you use a lot of force. Think of someone who bends down all day, or someone who lifts heavy things over and over again, especially above the shoulders or below the knees. 2. Slipping, tripping or falling. Think of something as simple as spilled coffee on the floor, a cluttered work area, or a raised platform with no guardrails. 3. Working near motorized vehicles. Think of being hit by a dump truck that is backing up on a construction site…. or someone getting hit by a forklift truck in a warehouse or on a loading dock. 4. Using or working near machinery. Over the years, many Workers/Students have been killed or seriously injured by the equipment they operated. 5. Workplace violence. It can happen in many workplaces such as to a gas station attendant working alone at night, or to a health care worker or a home care worker in those settings.

Worker’s or Student’s Three Rights: Right to know Here is how HRH protects you from workplace hazards. 1. The best way is to get rid of or eliminate the hazard completely. • A good example is replacing a toxic cleaning chemical with one that is non-toxic. 2. If the hazard can’t be eliminated, your employer can try to reduce the hazard. • This can be done by reducing how much of the hazard you are exposed to. An example of this is turning up the ventilation system in a factory, or putting a barrier around a dangerous piece of equipment. These are called “engineering controls.” 3. Another way to reduce hazards is to reduce how long or how often you come in contact with the hazard. • This can be done by arranging the work differently so that you are not exposed as long. These are called “administrative or work practice controls.” 4. The OHSA says that one of your duties as a worker is always to wear or use the protective equipment that your employer requires. • You may think that a N95, gloves or some other protective clothing are uncomfortable or slow you down. But if the OHSA or your employer says you have to wear or use these things to do the work, you have to.

Worker’s or Student’s Three Rights: Right to know Here at HRH your programs (Front Line Workers/Students/Management) have developed Job Specific Hazard Assessments 1. See ihumber for your job title and your risks within your job • Click the Link for your Job Specific Hazard Assessment 2. Ask your Clinical Coordinator or Preceptor or unit Manager about the Hazard