Healthcare related safety and awareness

1. Health and Safety Awareness
Module 1
Introduction and Legislation
Environmental Health and Safety
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This course is required for all Queen’s employees;
Faculty, Staff and Student-staff.
Whose responsibility is it to ensure that a workplace is safe?
All employers, supervisors and workers have a part to play in
keeping the workplace safe.

3. Training Objective
The goal is to give you health and safety awareness so that you can protect
yourself and your fellow workers.
All workers have the right to return home each day, safe and sound.
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4. Purpose of the Occupational
Health & Safety Act
• To maintain and promote a reasonable level of protection for the health
and safety of workers in and about their workplace.
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5. The Work Accident Clock
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6. New and Young Workers
In Ontario, new and young workers are 3x more likely to get hurt during their
first month on a job, compared to any other time of their working experience.
Why?
• They aren’t told about or don’t understand the hazards of the job
• They don’t know what to expect from employer, supervisor and themselves.
• May not know what questions to ask.
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7. Consequences of Injuries
Tremendous suffering of victims
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8. Consequences of Injuries
Tremendous suffering of victims’ families
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9. Consequences of Injuries
Loss of Family Member
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10. Consequences of Accidents
Costs Include:
•Damage to equipment/property
•Environmental Damage
•Production Loss / Research time
•Retraining of worker, etc
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11. High Costs of Illnesses and Injuries
On an average day in Ontario
•1 Fatality
•1 Amputations
•165 Lost Time Injuries
•345 Non Loss Time Injuries
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12. Knowledge check
The number of workers that are injured in Ontario each year is ________
This may include friends, family or neighbours.
Click the correct answer below
Hundreds
Thousands
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13. The number of workers that are injured in Ontario each year ____
This may include friends, family or neighbours.
Hundreds is incorrect. Please click the arrow below and try again
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14. The number of workers that are injured in Ontario each year is _________.
This may include friends, family or neighbours.
Thousands is Correct.
Numbers of injuries and deaths become more than statistics when you or a loved
one is involved
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15. Knowledge check
New workers are less likely to get hurt on the job compared to people who have
been on the job for much longer.
Click the correct answer below
False
True
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16. New workers are less likely to get hurt on the job compared to people who have
been on the job much longer.
True is incorrect. Please click the arrow below and try again
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17. New workers are less likely to get hurt on the job compared to people who
have been on the job longer.
False is correct.
New and young workers are more likely to get hurt in the first month of a new
job. This is why it is important that they are properly oriented and fully
trained.
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18. The Law
• Federal
•Canadian Nuclear Safety Act
•Environmental Protection Act
•Biosafety Guidelines
• Provincial
• The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA)
• Regulations
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19. Occupational Health & Safety Act
• Applies to most workplaces in the province
• Sets out minimum health and safety requirements for
workplaces
•Employer must have a Health & Safety Policy posted
• Assigns rights and duties to:
• Employer
• Supervisor
• Workers
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20. Regulations under Act
• Provide specific requirements on how law operates or works
• Information is specific and affects only certain jobs
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21. Some Regulations that apply to Queen’s
• Industrial Establishments – O.Reg 851
• Construction Regulations - O.Reg 213
• University Academics and Teaching Assistants – O.Reg 858
• Critical Injury - O.Reg 834
• Designated Substances – O.Reg 490
• Control of Exposure to Biological and Chemical Agents - O.Reg 833
• WHMIS – O.Reg 860
• X-Ray Safety – O.Reg 861
• Roll-Over Protection Devices – O.Reg 856
• Diving - O.Reg 629
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22. Designated Substances - O.Reg 490
• MOLTSD (Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development)
has designated 11 Substances
• Employer must carry out Assessment of the exposure or potential exposure
• Control program must be in place if assessment discloses that a worker may
be exposed
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23. Designated Substances - O.Reg 490
• Asbestos
• Silica
• Isocyanates
• Benzene
• Arsenic
• Ethylene Oxide
• Lead
• Coke Oven Emissions
• Acrylonitrile
• Mercury
• Vinyl Chloride
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24. Other Acts and Regulations
• Bill 168 – Violence and Harassment
• Workplace Safety and Insurance Act
• Ontario Building Code
• Ontario Fire Code
• Transportation of Dangerous Goods
• Nuclear Safety Control Act
• Environmental Protection Act
• Municipal By-laws
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25. Legislative Background
• 1974 Miners in Elliott Lake went on strike over health & safety conditions
(silica and lung cancers).
• Dr. James Ham appointed to chair a Royal Commission into health and
Safety in Ontario. (Ham Commission)
• Dr. Ham developed the concept of the Internal Responsibility System
• He advocated the creation of Joint Health & Safety Committees
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26. Legislative Background
• 1979 Ontario introduced the Occupational Health and Safety Act
• Legislation combined all workplace regulations under 1 Act
 Concept of IRS (Internal Responsibility System) is legislated
 Workers are given the legal right to refuse unsafe work
 Mandatory Joint Health and Safety Committees
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27. Internal Responsibility System (IRS)
• The IRS is the principle behind the Occupational Health & Safety Act
• Employers, Supervisors and Workers each have a role to play and
a duty to actively ensure workers are safe.
The effectiveness of the Internal Responsibility System depends on how
effectively the employer, supervisor and workers cooperate to make a safe and
healthy workplace.
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29. Legislative Background
• 1987 WHMIS legislation introduced across Canada.
• Workers are given the formal right to know about the hazards in their
workplace.
• 1990 Last major amendment to the OH&S Act, expands legal requirements
to have Joint Health and Safety Committees, Certified Workers, bilateral
work stoppage.
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30. Knowledge check
The IRS (Internal Responsibility System) is based on the principle
that Employers, Supervisors and workers all have a role to play
and a duty to actively ensure workers are safe.
Click the correct answer below
False
True
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31. The IRS is based on the principle that Employers, Supervisors and workers all
have a role to play and a duty to actively ensure workers are safe.
False is incorrect. Please return to previous screen
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32. The IRS is based on the principle that Employers, Supervisors and workers all
have a role to play and a duty to actively ensure workers are safe.
True is correct.
The IRS is the concept that everyone has a role to play in safety.
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33. End of Module 1
• You have now completed Module 1 in the Queen’s University Health and
Safety Awareness Training.
• Click the ‘End’ Button below to stop the presentation.
• Module 2 will now be available to download.
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