OHS 208 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Poultry Farming, Biological Agent, Carbon Disulfide

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

Document Summary

Several qs about consitution question of federal or provincial workplace under canada labour code and health and safety act. Provincial: industrial, commercial, retail, construction, mining, forestry, schools, universities and hospitals, municipalities, local transportation. General about purposes of health and safety law. The main purpose of the act is to protect workers from health and safety hazards on the job. 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. Structure health and safety law: -each province has their own ohs act. Common law (also known as case law or precedent) is law developed by judges, courts, and similar tribunals, stated in decisions that nominally decide individual cases but that in addition have precedential effect on future cases. Regulations are subordinate to acts because regulations must be authorized by an act, and cannot contradict the parent act.