If you have been injured at work you should:

Get proper medical treatment immediately

Report the incident to your supervisor
Go home
Both 1 and 2

The act gives the workers 3 rights:

The right to know

The right to stop work
The right to participate
The right to refuse unsafe work

WHMIS requires employers to:

Create supplierrs labels for products

Provide training, workplace labels and Materials safety Data sheets to workers
Make sure that the personal protective equipment is supplied

Hazardous chemicals may only harm if:

They get on your clothes or in your hair

The chemical gets into the body or on the skin and causes changes to the cells
They are not stored in a proper storage area.

A certified member of a committee is:

Any member of the committee

A member of the management
A member who received special training in occupational health and safety
A member of the union

WHMIS regulation requires that training be given to any worker who maybe handling, storing
or using products containing hazardous chemicals
 True
False

First aid can be administered by anyone, even someone without a First Aid Certificate

True
False

The workplace WHIMIS label on laboratory bottles containing chemical solutions need only to
identify thr chemical by its chemical formula

True
False

If there is a hazard of injury to the head, hands, eyes, hearing etc., personal protective equipment
must be used or worn

True
False

The First Aid station must be:

In the basement of the building

Under the qualified First Aid person supervision
Have at least two first aid boxes and a strecher
Joint Health and Safety Committees are made of workers and management members

True
False

The boss can fire a worker for refusing to perform unsafe work

True
 False

Who has the responsibilty to enforce the law?

Ministry of Labour
Workers
Employers
All of the above

Which of the following workers have a limited right to refuse unsafe work (you can select more
than one answer):

Welders
Tool and Die Makers
Police officers
workers employed in correctional institutions

Young workers have faster reflexes, so they are less likely to be hurt on the job.

True
False

A Supervisor must do the following under the OHA: (select 3 correct answers)

Ensure that the worker complies with the ACT

Ensure that protective equipment is used by worker
Ensure that a doctor is on site
Advise the workers of potential health or safety hazards

The Joint Health and safety committe has some of the following responsabilities (select 3)

Identify workplace hazards

Make recommendations to the employer
 Approve work refusals
Investigate serious injuries

A Health and safety policy must outline a detailed description of each and every job

True
False

WHMIS:

Balances workers' right-to-know with industry's right to protect confidential business

information
Includes a a mechanism for ruling on claims for exemption from disclosure of confidential
business information
Allows appeals to the above rulings.
All of the above

An accident causing an injury at work must be:

Reported to your supervisor

Reported to your co-worker
Reported to the Joint Health and Safety committee
An employer in charge of a workplace where hazardous materials are used has the following
three main duties

to identify the hazardous materials

to provide material safety data sheets
to provide help in an accident
to train the workers
If an employer find that a worker has an occupational illness, he must:

Notify the Ministry of Labour

Notify the union
Notify the worker family
 Both 1 and 2

Management has responsibilities under OHSA, but the workers have no responsibilty

True
False

OHSA outlines

Detailed requirements for health and safety in the workplace

The foundation for health and safety standards in the workplace
Name of the people involve in local regulations

Engineers are considered to be in contravention of the Health and Safety Act if:

Give advice and as a result a worker is endagered

Give certification and as a result a worker is endagered
Sign a design not done by them
Both 1 and 2