HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Occupational Safety And Health, Workplace Harassment, Bell Canada

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: Dean Bulloch William Peckham

Document Summary

Employers, supervisors, and employees share joint responsibility for workplace health and safety, including exercising "due diligence", communicating and enforcing policies, and participation on joint health and safety committees. Employee health, safety, and wellness management are important in how employees perceive their employer in regard to fair treatment. In this video clip, we hear about obvious safety problems as well as issues that do not necessarily come to mind when we think about health and safety. Every workplace has the potential to have issues that can impact an employee and/or employer for life: small business talking safety - youtube (06:42): https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=jjvxg0gg9vg&feature=player_embedded%5d. Occupation health and safety laws across canada fall into three categories: general rules, rules for specific industries, rules related to specific hazards. Regulations that accompany each law (act) are very complex. Provisions differ significantly across jurisdictions but have the following basic features in common. rights of employers and employees: enforcement of occupational health and safety laws.