Workplace Safety & Health Issues

1. Workplace Safety and Health Issues
and their Importance
Lesson 1

2. Trade Safety Goal
To increase student
awareness of trade
safety and health.
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3. Trade Safety IQ
True or False
Every hour at least one young worker
is injured in a work place incident.
Lesson 1
Learning Activity #1.1
Slides #3 - #14 3

4. True
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5. Almost 20% of work-related injuries occur
in the first six months on a new job.
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6. False
Answer: 50%
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7. About 50% of all time loss injuries
involve strains, sprains and tears.
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8. True
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9. All employers must establish a workplace
safety and health committee.
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10. False
Answer – Workplaces with 20 or more
workers must have a committee and
those between 10 and 19 must have
a worker representative for safety
and health. Construction is slightly
different depending on the length
of the project.
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11. Under the workplace safety and health
legislation, only employers and supervisors are
responsible for workplace safety and health.
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12. False
Answer:
Everyone is responsible!
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13. Every year in Manitoba about one-fifth of all
workplace injuries and illnesses occur in small
businesses.
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14. True
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15. How is “Dangerous Work”
Defined?
Dangerous Work generally
means work involving safety and
health risks that are not normal
for the job.
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16. What is a hazard?
Any activity, situation or
substance that can hurt
someone (i.e. safety hazards
and health hazards).
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17. DVD/Video – Steve’s Story
CBC I-Team Report:
Power Vac 1996
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18. Raising Workplace Safety Issues
Workplaces often promote a culture that values strength,
toughness, hard work and the ability to get a difficult job
done without complaint.
Some students find it difficult to raise concerns about
workplace safety.
It helps to know that workers, supervisors and employers
all have rights and responsibilities for workplace safety.
Lesson 1
Learning Activity #1.2
Slides #18 - #24 18

19. 1. What are the lessons to be learned from
“Steve’s Story”?
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20. 2. Why might it be difficult to raise concerns about
workplace safety?
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21. 3. As a student, what type of situations
have you been asked to do by your
employer or supervisor that raised a
safety concern in your mind?
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22. 4. What did you do?
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23. 5. What are some potential hazards in your
workplace?
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24. 6. What do you know that you can do now?
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25. WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT W210
PROVINCIALLY
In Manitoba, workplaces are regulated by the Manitoba
Workplace Safety and Health Act (2006), as well as
by Regulations, Codes and Guidelines.
All workers are covered, regardless of age, full or part
time, paid or unpaid.
Lesson 1
Learning Activity 1.3
Slides #25 - #29
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26.  For purposes of this course, we will discuss
the Workplace Safety and Health Act.
 For more information about the Manitoba
Workplace Safety and Health Act,
Regulations, Codes and Guidelines visit the
SAFE Work website at:
http://www.safemanitoba.com
WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT W210
PROVINCIALLY (con’t)
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27. Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health
200 - 401 York Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C OP8
Tel: (204) 945-3446
Fax: (204) 945-4556
or toll-free in Manitoba at 1-800-282-8069
After hours call (204) 945-0581
For more Information on Workplace
Safety and Health:
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28. FEDERALLY
If the workplace is considered a federal jurisdiction, the law
that applies is the Canada Labour Code - Part II
To Regulation Codes of Practice, Guidelines NOT included
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29. Other websites are:
www.safemanitoba.com and www.passporttosafety.com
Young Worker resources
http://safemanitoba.com/resources-view/young-workers
http://www.ccohs.ca/keytopics/youngworkers.html
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