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| NEER (New experimental Experience rating plan |
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Over 25 k annual assessment) rebate
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| CAD-7 – Council Amended Draft (No. 7) |
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- (Applies to construction industry only; annual assessment over 25 k ) ex. construction |
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| MAP- Merit Adjusted Premium |
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- (under 25 k annual assessment): smaller companies |
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| What are the three rebates? |
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- NEER (New experimental Experience rating plan (Over 25 k annual assessment)
- CAD-7 – Council Amended Draft (No. 7) (Applies to construction industry only; annual assessment over 25 k ) ex. construction
- MAP- Merit Adjusted Premium (under 25 k annual assessment): smaller companies |
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Assesments
- Three Categories of Employers |
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o Those who contribute to the accident fund and benefit from its collective liability
o Those who are individually liable
o Employers (low risk) excluded from the act |
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Stress-related Disabilities
- Three Categories |
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o Mental Disability, resulting from injury/disease
§ Clinical depression, suicide
§ Compensated as per injury
o Physical disability resulting from mental stress
§ Board does not compensate for stress
§ Stomach ulcers, heart attacks, drug/alcohol abuse
§ Selectively compensated
o Mental Disability resulting from mental stress
§ Clinical depression, psychosis
§ Rarely compensated at this time |
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Engineering controls
- 1st level control
- The modification of work processes, equipment and materials in order to reduce exposure to hazards
- Examples:
o Design of tools
o Substitution (less hazardous)
o Workstation Design
o Process Modficiation (Industrial Engineering)
o Isolation or segregation |
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Risk=Probability x consequences x exposure
- Probability of an injury expressed as a percentage
- Determined by calculating:
o Probability of occurrence
o Consequences
R=PxCxE |
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- In 1992 the mine was destroyed, 26 workers were killed
- Methane gas explosion
- Nova Scotia charged employer and the charges were dismissed
- Led to many legal proceedings, amendment of bill C-45 making it easier for corporations to be criminally charged for disregarding safety warnings
- Beforehand corporate officers could be charged with negligence, however only when it was of a directing mind to engage in personally criminal misconduct |
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Any disease that ensures after a workplace exposure and that has been demonstrated to be associated with that type of exposure
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| Occupational Health and Safety Act |
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an Ontario Statute that regulates the promotion of worker health and safety in most Ontario workplaces
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| MSDS: (Materials Safety Data Sheets) |
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Definition
- A document made available in the workplace that is designed to describe, to workers, the risks associated with a hazardous material and the appropriate safety precautions that should be followed in handling the material
- Valid for three years from the date of preparation
- Supplier and employer labels
- Need to put it on when you decant or when the label falls off |
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Think of cost for compensation as a triangle (iceberg) |
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- Cost is the top third of the iceberg, hidden costs is 2/3s
- There is retraining, benefits, loss of productivity, financial cost of compensation with increased premiums, with dangerous work there are higher wages |
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| Employer offences Under the WSIA |
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Definition
- failing to register within ten days of becoming an employer
- deducting workers' compensation expenses from worker's wages
- failing to notify WSIB within 3 days of learning of a worker's accident that requires health care or causes to earn less than full wages
- making a false statement or representation to the wsib relating to benefit entitlement
- failing to inform the Board of a material change in circumstances within ten days
- failure of accurate or to produce records of wages paid |
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Hazordous Materials
Six Hazard Classes |
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Six Hazard Classes
A. Compressed Gasses
- Any material or substance contained under pressure
- Hazardous because of potential sudden or
- Compressed air is involved
B. Flammable and Combusticle Material
C. Oxidizing Materials: Class C
- Any product material or substance if: It causes
D. Poisonous and Infectious Material
- If 50 percent can die it is lethal, carcinogenic
Divison 3: Biohazordous and Infectious
E. Corrosive
F. Dangerously reactive Material |
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| Internal Responsibility System: |
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Definition
| A Scheme, created under the OHSA that assigns health and safety responsibilities to each workplace party |
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| Workplace Hazordous Materials Imformation System |
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A coordinated system, supported by legislation at both the federal and provincial levels, for the safe managementof hazardous materials in workplaces |
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| Health and Safety Representative |
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Definition
- where the workplace exceeds 5 people
- in small workplaces and individual is assigned enhance health and safety rights and responsibilities to be exercised on behalf of workers |
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| Joint Health and Safety Committee |
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Definition
| In medium and large workplaces, a team of individuals from management and workers, that exceeds 20 people are assigned h and s responsibilities |
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Employers in a workplace must:
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Definition
1. Duty of Care: All employers must:
- Take every precaution reasonable under the circumstances for the protection of a worker; and
- Assist in emergencies involving workers (which can mean providing any requested information, even confidential business information, to qualified medical professionals
2. Human Resources management and training
- Ensure that underage workers are not hired
- Hire only competent people to act as supervisors
- Provide information, instruction and supervision to workers to help protect their health and safety
3. Maintenance of facilities and Equipment
4. Occupational health and safety program
5. Post-incident Compliance |
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| Worklplace Safety and Insurance Board |
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Definition
An ontario tribunal charged with the mediation or ajudication of disputes arising under employment-related legislation, like the OHSA
- if there is an occupational illness the employer must notify the mol, jhsc, or health and safety rep |
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| Workers that cannot refuse unsafe work include |
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Definition
- police officers
- firefighters
- correctional workers
- hospital workers
nursing home workers
- ambulance workers
- some lab workers
- certain support workers (food service)
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| How premiums are calculated? |
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The wsib groups industriies that are similar from an injury/illness risk perspective into classification units (CU's) Each CU is assigned to a rate group. Basic premiums are assessed annually for each rate group, with group, with groups with a higher risk of injury being assigned higher base premiums
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- Prevention of accident/illness as major objective
- Ensure medical treatment
o First aid at job site or nearest treatment facility
o Long term treatment for injuries
o Ohip sends the board a bill every year, initially funded by ohip
- Rehabilitation
- Benefits while recuperating from injuries
o Loss of earning; future economic loss; non-economic loss |
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| Three types of Rehabilitation under WSIB |
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Definition
- Vocational Rehab
o Return to work in the same or similar work
- Physical Rehab
o Restoration of physical function
- Social Rehab
o Helping severely disabled cope with daily life |
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Injured worker entitled to under WSIB |
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Definition
o Payments while off work
o Medical bills paid (ohip)
o Pension if injury or illness is permanent
o Partial benefits if worker’s salary affected by injury
o Family benefits if killed on the job
o Employers classified according to risk |
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3 Components of WHMIS System |
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1. Labels,
2. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS
3. Training |
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Term
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Definition
a. Seek to ensure that workers and/or emergency personnel are protected
i. Suppression: accident or fire
ii. Barriers : in case of a possible leak
iii. Modification of the workplace
iv. Substitution:
v. Isolation |
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- Ensure immediate medical attention for injured workers
- Lock out machinery involved
- Restrict access
- Determine what can be salvaged and what can be safely disposed of
- Apprise JOHSC, affected managers and government agencies |
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| Five immigrant Italian construction workers died of carbon monoxide poisoning and drowning at Hoggs Hollow. This tragedy became something of a press spectacle. The Toronto Telegram headlined "Bravery, Drama and Death in the Floodlit Glare" on the morning of March 18, 1960. Responses to the tragedy included a coroner's inquest and a separate police investigation. No criminal charges were laid, but the recommendations of the coroner's jury, combined with a strike by (mostly) Italian-Canadian construction workers, led to a major overhall in Ontario's workplace health and safety laws. The young men of Hoggs Hollow did not die in vain. |
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Workplace Safety and insurance act promotes
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1. Health and safety in workplaces to prevent and reduce the occurrence of workplace injuries and occupational disease
2. Facilitate the return to work and recovery of workers who sustain personal injury over the course of employment or occupational disease
3. Facilitate re-entry into the labour market of workers and spouses of deceased workers
4. Provide compensation and benefits to the survivors of deceased workers |
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Some Key Features of a WHMIS compliant label are as follows |
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1. Hatched Border
2. Hazard Symboles
3. Printed information
- The name of the product
- The name of the supplier or importer
- A statement that there is an msds available for the product
- A risk phrase or phrases describing the dangerous properties of the product |
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Recognition Assessment and Control |
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Definition
Hazard:
- Any condition or set of circumstances that has the potential to cause an injury
Event:
- An activity that may occur on a day-to-day basis as a direct or indirect result of some human or human-related undertaking
Incident:
- Any observable human activity that is an unwanted event or occurrence that might have had an impact on the people, property or process involved
Accident:
- Any unwanted event that causes harm to people, property, or processes
Injury:
- Any trauma, physical, or mental, direct or indirect, acute, or chronic, experience by a human being |
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| To correct procedures and behaviours so that the likelihood of an accident occurring again is reduced |
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- The orderly analysis of a system with the objective of identifying the potential for hazards that may exist along with establishing the corrective and control mechanisms necessary to manage them |
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- Background : Task no supervised directly
- Personal Defect: Worker is wearing a long sleeve shirt
- Unsafe Act: Worker operated machine w/o guard
- Accident : Workers shirt sleeve caught in machine
- Injury: Worker’s arm mangled by machine
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Hazard Identification
Four factors |
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1. Ergonomic Factors
2. Human Factors
3. Situational Factors
4. Environmental Factors
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| What is the hazard control model |
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The WSIA defines what is meant by an accident
3 definitions |
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- a chance event occasioned by a physical or natural cause
- a wilful and intentional act that is not the act of the worker
- disablement arising out of and in the course of employment
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| Why is the employer advantaged in WSIA |
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Definition
| the wsia makes the cost of compensating injured workers a predictable and budgetable- rather than a capricious expence for business |
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Term
| What is the definiton of a worker? |
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| A person who has entered into or is employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship |
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Term
| can an employer discriminate against a disabled job applicant on the grounds of safety concerns? |
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| Employers are not allowed to discriminate in their hiring, on the basis of the grounds. Where an employee has a disabilitiy or handicap, the employer can neither refuse to hire nor fire that person on the basis of the disability unless the ability impaired by the handicap is essential to work |
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