MHR 523 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Canada Labour Code, Safety Data Sheet, Joint Committee
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Chapter 13 ensuring health and safety at the workplace (pg. Most employers and employees are governed by the provincial legislation. At the federal level, the canada labour code (pt. 2) details the elements of an industrial safety program and provides for regulations to deal with various types of occupational safety problems. The right to know about hazards in the workplace. The right to participate in correcting those hazards. Key element of health and safety laws is the joint occupational health and safety committee, which is a group consisting of reps of the employers and employees that meets regularly in order to reduce accident rates. Hazardous products: hazardous products act an act whose primary objective is the protection of consumers by regulating the sale of dangerous products, workplace hazardous material information system (whmis) Requires that suppliers label hazardous products and provide a material safety data. Sheet (msds) on each: requires an employer to provide training to enable employees to.