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Activity 3: Regularly provide and clearly explain to the work team, information about identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and control

Workers are protected under the Workplace Health and Safety Act. This act states that all workers have the right to know about the hazards they are working with. This includes what the specific dangers of the task or object(s) are, and what precautions must be taken to prevent any injuries from happening while working with them. Secondly, all workers have the right to participate. They are allowed to participate in any health and safety activities, meetings, and/or plans. Additionally, workers can refuse to work if they believe their task could in any way harm themselves or others. The Vice President of Health and Safety (the supervisor) will then have to investigate the problem and will have to come up with a solution to avoid the potential

2 Explain how and when to report potential health and safety risks that have been identified

Forming safe work practices, such as restricting access to dangerous areas and keeping individual workspaces clean

Show your commitment to health and safety with your own consistent, safe work practices and emphasize that unsafe work practices are unacceptable. Reinforce your company’s health and safety priorities in all workplace communications. Encourage all workers to alert their supervisors immediately if they see something that endangers their safety.

The Risk Manager will be responsible for regular and systematic review of all event incident reports for the purpose of identifying, analyzing, evaluating exposures, and trends. If an undesirable exposure or trend is identified, the Risk Manager will develop recommendations for corrective action or refer issue to the appropriate committee/department chair/manager/director.

After we have conducted the risk analysis we will conduct a risk assessment to identify which risks

We train our employees to speak up if they see a potential safety issue. Whether it is a spectator who has ventured too close, an overhead power line that poses a potential risk for a truck driver or a speeding driver who does not appear to realize that he is headed directly into the work area, our employees are trained to handle the issue appropriately.

Communicate to workplace parties the importance of effective consultation mechanisms in managing health and safety risks in the workplace:

Life safety issues must be addressed. It will take some time, but top priority items are to train employees in CPR & 1st aid, emergency evacuation response plan training, and spill response. A very important part of the spill response issue is that I must make everyone aware of the fact that we are not capable of responding to any large scale leak. We do not have HAZWOPER training (29 CFR 1910.120) and do not have the SCBA equipment. Therefore, according to OSHA we cannot respond to emergency situations involving an uncontrolled release of a hazardous substance, toxic vapors, flammables, unknown air contaminate concentrations, etc. Maintenance personnel can only respond to small incidental spills that are limited in quantity, exposure potential, or toxicity and present minor safety or health hazards. There are companies that specialize in hazardous material response and are available 24/7. It is possible to set up an agreement and only pay for HAZMAT services if they are called in. I highly recommend coordinating this type of HAZMAT service, and implementing a decision making chart so we know when activating their services is

Companies obligate their employees to follow the certain safety rules. Any safety issue has an affect in both companies, and employees.

A predefined criteria should be established in order to control risks and for the continual assessment of risks. This will further aid in monitoring and reporting of the risks. Management should also stay in touch constantly in order to keep a keen eye on any abrupt changes and emerging risks.

plan, a regular review should be scheduled. ‘Risk isn’t static’ (Power, 2012). New risks can

• Ensure that hazards are identified and adequate controls are implemented to minimise risk as far as reasonably practicable, and

Conduct a risk assessment and provide findings to workers highlighting the hazardous areas and activities-