LAW 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Change Control, Occupational Safety And Health, Human Factors And Ergonomics
12 Oct 2017
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Accident theories have been focused on ultimate causes of accidents as oppose to direct or proximate causes of accidents. Accident theories focus on senior management a cause of accidents, as the ultimate source of errors. Internal responsibility system matches our understanding of accident theory in that a wide variety of people in any organization has a personal responsibility to identify hazards to ensure that controls are developed. Irs is not the same system as the ohs system. Irs underlies the occupational health and safety act. Meaning occupational health and safety act sets out of series of duties for different categories of people in the organization. In 1990, bill 208 amended the ontario occupational health and safety act, to include in a new section,32. - for the first time imposed a personal duty on directors and officers of corporations to ensure that the corporation complied with the occupational health and safety act and the regulations made under the.
