Slips, trips, falls, noise, and heat belong to this hazard category.
Physical Hazards
This right ensures workers receive information, instruction, and training about workplace hazards.
Right to Know
A grocery store receives a shipment, and boxes are stacked in front of an emergency exit. What is the best control?
A) Tell workers to be careful around the boxes
B) Put up a warning sign
C) Remove the boxes from in front of the exit
C) Remove the boxes from in front of the exit (Elimination)
Young workers are most likely to be injured during what period of their employment?
First six months on the job
A cashier develops neck and shoulder pain after sitting at a workstation that is too low.
Ergonomic Hazard
This right allows workers to be involved in health and safety matters.
Right to Participate
What level of the Hierarchy of Controls is being used when a restaurant replaces a harsh cleaning product with a safer one that does the same job?
Substitution
Approximately how many workers under the age of 19 are injured or killed on the job in Canada every day?
40
Bullying and overly demanding schedules belong to this hazard category.
Psychosocial Hazards
This right allows workers to stop work they believe is dangerous.
Right to Refuse
Place the following controls in order from MOST effective to LEAST effective:
- Administrative Controls
- Engineering Controls
- PPE
- Substitution
- Elimination
Elimination → Substitution → Engineering Controls → Administrative Controls → PPE
Name two factors that can influence young workers to make unsafe decisions on the job.