BU354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Personal Protective Equipment, Human Factors And Ergonomics, Safety Data Sheet
Document Summary
Occupational health and safety legislation laws intended to protect the health and safety of workers by minimizing work-related accidents and illnesses. All provinces, territories, and the federal jurisdiction have occupational health and safety legislation. In all jurisdictions, employers are responsible for taking every reasonable precaution to ensure the health and safety of their workers. In all canadian jurisdictions, occupational health and safety law provides for government inspectors to periodically carry out safety inspections of workplaces. Workplace hazardous materials information system (whmis) a canada-wide, legally mandated system designed to protect workers by providing information about hazardous materials in the workplace. What causes accidents: chance occurrences contribute to accidents but are more or less beyond management"s control, unsafe conditions defective equipment, hazardous procedures around machines, unsafe acts (by employees) operating at unsafe speeds, lifting improperly. How to prevent accidents: reduce unsafe conditions. Safety engineers can design jobs to remove or reduce physical hazards.
