Summary Exercise
Remembering that as a supervisor you are both an employer and a worker, answer the following questions:
Potential answers:
Worker rights:
- Right to a workplace that has no unknown, uncontrolled hazards right to ask for and get information from their employer about health and safety hazards on the job
- Right to see their medical records or exposure records from work
- Right to see copies of HSA regulations about their workplace
- Right to look at their employer’s records of injuries and illnesses
- Right to refuse dangerous work if they believe, with reason, that they could be seriously hurt or killed
- Right to make a complaint to Health and Safety Agency about dangerous conditions on the job
- Right to be protected from punishment by their employers for using their rights under HSA
Potential answers:
- To provide a workplace that has no unknown uncontrolled hazards
- To tell Health and Safety Agency about any serious workplace accident
- To obey all HSA regulations
- To keep records of job-related injuries and illnesses
- To let a worker representative go with the Health and Safety Agency inspector during an inspection
- To put up a notice of any Health and Safety Agency citations at or near the place where the violations happened
- To correct hazards within time guidelines
- Cannot punish workers for using their Health and Safety rights