Identification, evaluation and control of hazards in the workplace
What is Occupational Health and Safety?
100
Employers and employees share responsibility for creating and maintaining safe and healthy work environments
What is The Internal Responsibility System?
100
Identify hazards in the workplace
What is WHMIS?
100
Ensures injured worker receives; first aid, benefits and treatment for injuries
What is Workers' Compensation or WSIB?
100
Noise, Vibration, Thermal Stress, Radiation
What are "Physical Agents"
200
The right to know, the right to refuse and the right to participate in a H&S program
What are "the three principles"
200
A Committee jointly appointed by the employer and employees at large (or union) to address health and safety issues in a workplace
What is a Workplace Health and Safety Committee?
200
Must contain product identifier, safe handling instructions and the location of the MSDS
What is a Workplace Label?
200
Vocational, Physical and Social
What are the types of Rehab supported by WSIB
200
Temporary Threshold Shift
What is "Gradual Hearing Loss"?
300
1988
What is the year WHMIS legislation was passed?
300
Named after the Nova Scotia mining disaster
What is The Westray Bill?
300
Factual info about the nature of the harmful ingredients and guidance on how to use it as well as dispose of it
What is MSDS?
300
A form required when a worker is injured on the job
What is an "Incident Report"?
300
Frequency, Duration, Loudness
What are the characteristics of sound?
400
Lost time, medical and compensation costs
What are the "Direct Costs of a Workplace Injury"
400
Identify needs for training
What is " A Supervisor's Duty in the workplace"
400
A comprehensive label attached to a container that is delivered to a workplace
What is a Supplier Label
400
These disorders are not treated the same as other work related illnesses
What are "Stress Related Disorders"
400
Hot and cold extremes
What is "Thermal Stress"
500
Employers, Government, Union and Workers
What is "Stakeholders in a Health and Safety Program"
500
Your company is required to have "this" if there are 20 or more employees?
What is a Joint Health and Safety Committee?
500
Began in the U.S. in the early 1980’s called the hazard communication standard
What is "WHMIS"
500
Between May 1 and August 31, 2013, Ministry of Labour inspectors visited workplaces across Ontario, focusing on the safety of new and young workers. Their goal is to prevent injuries and deaths.