Occupational Health & Safety Act
A group of safety representatives that is required for any workplace that regularly employs 20 or more workers
What is a Joint Health and Safety Committee?
PPE stands for ______________.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
What is a fire extinguisher.
The first person a worker should bring a safety concern to.
Who is their manager/supervisor?
Where each work place must post things like:
- JHSC membership list
- Ministry of Labour Orders/Inspections
- WSIB 1-2-3-4 Poster
What is a Health & Safety Board?
This item of PPE is worn on the face and prevents injury/illnesses caused by airborne particles.
What is an N95 Respirator?
The procedure you must follow when the fire alarm system is offline.
What is fire watch procedure?
An incident that results in a worker going to the hospital for treatment.
What is a Health Care incident?
An example of this type of workplace injury is a fractured leg.
What is a critical injury?
This PPE item is removed first when removing PPE after patient care.
What are gloves?
The document that must be completed by all departments following a fire alarm.
What is a fire report?
Includes important information about chemical products (e.g. Name and product number, first aid measure, spill clean up procedure, etc.).
What is a safety data sheet?
This governing body promotes and enforces the Occupational Health and Safety Act regulations.
What is the Ministry of Labour?
This should be done immediately after taking off your PPE.
What is hand hygiene?
This material should not be on the walls in main evacuation routes and corridors.
What is paper?
This document must be completed after an emergency code is called.
What is an Emergency Code Audit?
This is a two-stage process that is triggered when an employee considers a work task to be unsafe.
What is a work refusal?
The person responsible for proper wear of PPE
Who is the worker?
P.A.S.S. is the acronym to remember these steps to operator a fire extinguisher.
What is "Pull the pin", "Aim", "Squeeze the trigger" and "Sweep from side to side"
The most common injury type among nurses and health care workers in hospitals and long-term care homes.
What are musculoskeletal disorders?