Definitions
This is an individual who is authorized by an employer to oversee or direct the work of the employer’s workers.
Supervisor
If you oversee or direct the work of other individuals, by definition, you are a supervisor and have associated responsibilities, regardless of your job title.
This group of individuals must monitor the workplace and ensure that workers are following the policies, practices and procedures?
The employer.
These are your rights as a worker in Saskatchewan.
The right to know, participate and refuse.
Workers in Saskatchewan also have the right to a workplace free of harassment.
Failure to ensure that workers are protected from this when working in an excavation can result in a fine of $1000 for the employer, supervisors and/or contractors.
A company creates a new procedure after a serious incident occurs.
Reactive
This term describes all reasonable precautions that the employer can make to prevent harm to workers, property and the environment, and to comply with legislation.
Due Diligence.
This workplace group are ultimately responsible to ensure that workplace hazards are controlled.
The employer
This means to give information and explanation to a worker and require practical demonstration that the worker has acquired knowledge or skill related to the subject matter.
Training
The Ministry of Workplace Safety and the Ministry of Justice have created these for certain occupational health and safety violations.
Summary Offense Tickets
A documented system for identifying tasks, hazards and controls is used consistently and correctly.
Proactive
This individual is engaged in the service of an employer and includes a person who is enrolled in an educational institution, or is being or is permitted by an employer to perform work.
The Worker.
These 3 workplace groups have a duty to monitor and follow up on the effectiveness of implemented controls.
The employer, supervisor and the OHC
These employees should be educated on how to identify hazards.
All employees
This order is given when an Officer has formed the opinion that there is a breach of the legislation that may pose serious risk to the health and safety of a worker(s).
Stop Work Order
Reporting these (and learning from them) is a way to proactively prevent serious incidents from happening.
Near Miss
These are the 3 factors included in the definition of "Competency"
Experience, knowledge and training.
This is a formal enforcement tool available to Occupational Health Officers (and Mines Inspectors) to identify non-compliance with Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
Notice of contravention
This means practicable – or possible – unless the person can prove a gross disproportion between the cost of the duty and the benefit.
Reasonably Practicable.
This is one of the factors considered in a due diligence defense.
Foreseeable: could a reasonable person have foreseen that something could go wrong?
Preventable: Was there an opportunity to prevent something from going wrong? If so, was an effort made?
Severity of the hazard: How serious could the consequences have been? How severe is the potential harm to workers?
Control: Who was in the best position to prevent what went wrong?