ADM 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Occupational Injury, Occupational Disease, Hard Hat
4 Apr 2016
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It"s the law: the fundamental duty of every employer to take every reasonable precaution to ensure employee safety. Its cost effective: prevention results in bottom line returns. According to the association of workers" compensation boards of canada, in. 2009 there were 939 deaths and 260 000 work-related injuries (almost four. For young canadians, the rates are even higher. 6 times more likely to be killed or have a workplace injury. Av average of 36 young ontario workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job every day (between 15 and 24 years old) (95% men) 1/11 will suffer a workplace injury. Less than half receive job training: only about 30% receive instruction in first aid or cpr in their safety training, most learn nothing about the law, their rights, hazards on the job, or safety management. Feel that they must do what their employer tells them; it is not their own responsibility.
