BU354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Occupational Safety And Health, Shift Work, Aids
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Chapter 12: ensuring health and safety at the workplace. Assumption of risk: the worker accepts all the customary risks associated with his or her occupation. For example, workers may be instructed to protect themselves from special hazards such as heat extremes or molten and sharp metal. Careless worker mode: the early approach to safety in the workplace, which assumed that most accidents were due to workers" failure to be careful or to protect themselves. Even if training was provided to make workers more aware of the dangers in the workplace, this approach still assumed that it is mainly the workers fault if an accident happened. Shared responsibility model: a newer approach to safety in the workplace that assumes the best method to reduce accident rates relies on the cooperation of the employer and the employees (who may be represented by a union) 3 canadian workers die every working day from an occupational injury or disease.
