Employment Safety: Why should you care?
“In Canada, each day more than 40 workers under the age of 19 are hurt on the job. Statistics from the Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada say workers between the ages of 15 and 19 had 14,787 time loss injuries in Canada in 2006, and 10 work-related fatalities. In the 20 to 24 age group, 35,976 were injured and a further 41 of those young workers died.”
(Source: Young Workers Zone; Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)
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Take the Workplace Health and Safety Quiz.
Want to watch some rather disturbing videos about workplace safety? Go for it. (I can’t watch them. They’ll give me nightmares.)
We will be watching these videos in class, but if you miss them, check them out below, along with handouts to go with them.
Young Worker Awareness: Things you’d better know
The handout: Things you’d better know q’s
The handout: WHMIS symbols
Get to know the Employment Standards Act
Follow this link to a helpful interpretation of the labour laws of Ontario.
Want a simpler version of the rules? Click here.
The handout: Employment Standards Act
