Requirements of the Health and Safety Act

Define key terms in the glossary of the health and safety act, including critical injury, employee, and employer. Explain who qualifies as an employee and what constitutes a young person.

Summarizes duties under Part II of the Health and Safety Act for employers, employees, supervisors, occupiers, and others, including reasonably practicable controls, PPE, safe systems, training, labeling, and safety policy.

Learn to conduct risk assessments, hazard identification, and risk evaluation, and to prepare a written emergency plan for 25+ employees with evacuation, fire control, and hospital transport.

Employees can refuse dangerous work under Part III of the ASH Act, report the refusal to the employer or safety committee, and trigger a safety investigation with protection from discipline.

Explains part four of the safety and health act, detailing safety committees, machinery safeguarding, confined space rules, and mandatory health surveillance with risk assessment.

Explore part five of the health and safety act, detailing fire safety provisions for industrial establishments, including means of escape, fire certificates, alarms, outward-opening doors, firefighting drills, and penalties.

This lecture covers parts six and seven of the safety and health act, detailing protections for pregnant and nursing employees, overcrowding limits, and welfare requirements like space and cleanliness.

The lecture outlines notification requirements under part eight of health and safety act, informing the Chief Inspector within 48 hours of death or critical injury and maintaining an accident register.

Explore part IX and part XV of the health and safety act, covering young worker protections, fitness certification, work hours, inspections, enforcement, penalties, and miscellaneous provisions.

Conclude the health and safety act by reviewing parts one, two, eight, and nine to fifty, and highlight toxicology, safety committee, and CSP practice questions for the CACP exam.