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Principles of Health and Safety Management
Exam Study Guide.
- legal requirements
- moral obligations
- financial benefits
- due diligence - answer✔What are the main reasons why every company should develop and
implement a safety program?
1977 - answer✔What year was the Alberta Occupational Health & Safety Act passed?
Due Diligence - answer✔The ability to demonstrate that a person did what could reasonably be
expected under their circumstances, in order to satisfy a legal requirement.
The actions taken before an incident occurs, not after. - answer✔A due diligence defence depends on
your ability to demonstrate what?
"Doing what is reasonably practicable" is a legal obligation that you must perform at all times.
"Due diligences" is a defense where the person has failed to comply with an OHS legal requirement, but
can prove that they did everything reasonable to avoid that non-compliance. - answer✔What is the key
difference between "doing what is reasonably practicable" and "due diligence"?
1. Foreseeability: could a reasonable person foresee that something could go wrong?
2. Preventability: Is there an opportunity to prevent an injury or incident?
3. Control: Who has the ability or responsibility to prevent an injury or incident from occurring? -
answer✔What are the three main factors a judge or jury considers in determining whether a person's
defence of due diligence is valid?
- employers
- supervisors
- workers
- suppliers
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- service providers
- owners
- contractors
- prime contractors
- self-employed persons
- temporary staffing agencies - answer✔What are the 10 work site parties defined in the OHS Act?
Hazard
A condition, device or substance that can directly cause injury to people or damage to property -
answer✔Anything with the potential to cause human injury or loss, or damage to equipment or
property; loss of production and / or damage to the environment.
Hazard Assessment
A process for the examination of potential losses resulting from workplace hazards, changing conditions
in the workplace or health and / or safety program system failures. - answer✔A thorough examination
of a specific job or operation to identify what actual and potential hazards exists
Prioritization - answer✔Ranking the priority of a job or task based on the level of risk
Controls - answer✔A method, or combination of methods, used to eliminate or reduce the presence of a
hazard.
- Formal
- Site Specific - answer✔What are the two general types of hazard assessments?
- People
- Equipment /Tools
- Materials
- Environment
(This is what the workplace consist of) - answer✔What are the four major elements or subsystems in
any organization that provide their sources?
- health hazards
- safety hazards - answer✔What are the two types of hazards?
Heath Hazards - answer✔Physical, chemical, biological or psychological hazards which may cause acute
or chronic health effects to exposed workers (i.e., noise, dirt, heat, ergonomics)
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Principles of Health and Safety Management
Exam Study Guide.
- legal requirements
- moral obligations
- financial benefits
- due diligence - answer✔What are the main reasons why every company should develop and
implement a safety program?
1977 - answer✔What year was the Alberta Occupational Health & Safety Act passed?
Due Diligence - answer✔The ability to demonstrate that a person did what could reasonably be
expected under their circumstances, in order to satisfy a legal requirement.
The actions taken before an incident occurs, not after. - answer✔A due diligence defence depends on
your ability to demonstrate what?
"Doing what is reasonably practicable" is a legal obligation that you must perform at all times.
"Due diligences" is a defense where the person has failed to comply with an OHS legal requirement, but
can prove that they did everything reasonable to avoid that non-compliance. - answer✔What is the key
difference between "doing what is reasonably practicable" and "due diligence"?
1. Foreseeability: could a reasonable person foresee that something could go wrong?
2. Preventability: Is there an opportunity to prevent an injury or incident?
3. Control: Who has the ability or responsibility to prevent an injury or incident from occurring? -
answer✔What are the three main factors a judge or jury considers in determining whether a person's
defence of due diligence is valid?
- employers
- supervisors
- workers
- suppliers
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- service providers
- owners
- contractors
- prime contractors
- self-employed persons
- temporary staffing agencies - answer✔What are the 10 work site parties defined in the OHS Act?
Hazard
A condition, device or substance that can directly cause injury to people or damage to property -
answer✔Anything with the potential to cause human injury or loss, or damage to equipment or
property; loss of production and / or damage to the environment.
Hazard Assessment
A process for the examination of potential losses resulting from workplace hazards, changing conditions
in the workplace or health and / or safety program system failures. - answer✔A thorough examination
of a specific job or operation to identify what actual and potential hazards exists
Prioritization - answer✔Ranking the priority of a job or task based on the level of risk
Controls - answer✔A method, or combination of methods, used to eliminate or reduce the presence of a
hazard.
- Formal
- Site Specific - answer✔What are the two general types of hazard assessments?
- People
- Equipment /Tools
- Materials
- Environment
(This is what the workplace consist of) - answer✔What are the four major elements or subsystems in
any organization that provide their sources?
- health hazards
- safety hazards - answer✔What are the two types of hazards?
Heath Hazards - answer✔Physical, chemical, biological or psychological hazards which may cause acute
or chronic health effects to exposed workers (i.e., noise, dirt, heat, ergonomics)
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