OHS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vinyl Chloride, Subrogation, Nanny

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Occupational Health
• Course: OHS 208
• Professor: Peter Strahlendorf

Document Summary

Mostly going to be on definitions you"ll need to know what"s a designated substance: there"s 12. Intro: couple on constitutional jurisdiction (know the list of federal vs provincial workplaces, constitutional jurisdiction is strictly provincial and for compensation, not b. prevention (like canada labor code) It sets out duties for all workplace parties and rights for workers. It establishes procedures for dealing with workplace hazards and provides for enforcement of the law where compliance has not been achieved voluntarily. Remedy can be $ or imprisonment: prosecution=crown vs defendant. Justice=corrective (uses compensation), distributive (distributed for different circumstances), retributive (serious crime=seriously punished, light crime=light), procedural. Public: usually concerned with statutory law, addresses social issues (like murder/criminal law and constitutional law: meaning of injunction ac. A stop order (prohibitory) or making them do something else (mandatory) History: 4 q on: 19th century common law defenses that the employer had when a worker was in ad.