HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, Repetitive Strain Injury, Occupational Safety And Health

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Strategic importance of occupaional health and safety investment in disability and wellness programs create botom-line returns in 2007 there were 1,055 deaths and 317,524 injuries resuling from accidents at work: workplace accidents can be prevented. Employer responsibiliies take every precauion to ensure the health and safety of workers (due diligence) speciic duies include: iling government accident reports. Maintaining records ensuring that safety rules are enforced posing safety noices and legislaive informaion. The supervisor"s role in safety ensure that workers comply with occupaional health and safety regulaions advise and instruct workers about safety safety-minded managers must aim to insill in their workers the desire to work safely. Enforcement of ohs laws periodic government inspecions of workplace penalies consist of ines and/or jail terms. Corporate killing : a criminal ofence, failure to ensure an appropriate level of safety in the workplace. Workplace hazardous materials informaion system (whmis) control of toxic substances three components: labelling of hazardous material containers.