OHS 718 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Due Diligence, Health Promotion, Workplace Violence
8 May 2020
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Inspection: a thorough, close, critical examination, checking or testing against established standards. Inspection is not triggered by a particular event (for the most part). Legal requirements to do inspections: certified member of jhsc should be doing inspections. The inspector must inform the jhsc of hazards. Due diligence: no duty on the part of the employer to do an inspection, just the jhsc. Implied duty, not explicitly expressed duty: supervisor under obligation to advise workers of dangers that they are aware of, and also dangers that they ought to be aware of. Implied duty to inspect is hidden in the duty to advise of hazards. Types of hazards: 2 types in inspections: unplanned inspections and formal planned inspections. Ideally, every worker should be doing an inspection of their workplace daily as they are internal auditors meant to identify hazards. Same with supervisors: workers and supervisors should be given hazard recognition training. Informal in that it is not really recorded.
