Whiplash

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:15:30 +0000

Some people who injure themselves whether in a work-related, road traffic or a sports injury heal very quickly. Some individuals heal very slowly. In some patients what was initially a localised injury causing a local pain ends up becoming, sometimes in the more extreme cases, a whole-body pain.
When healing slows down or even stops it is important to ask: Why is this happening?While local therapies and a biomechanical approach to sports ands motor vehicle injuries is useful we need to investigate the patient who is not recovering more holistically rather than merely cranking up the anti-inflammatories more, giving another shot of steroid or becoming more ‘aggressive’ with the physio.

Workers have rights and responsibilities for their health

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:08:14 +0000

Workers have rights and responsibilities.
Your employer assumes overall responsibility for your health and your safety in the workplace, but you also have responsibilities under the Act. It is simply to exercise common sense and pay attention to the work you do.
You will find answers to your questions by clicking on a link below or by choosing a link in the menu on the left.The Law on Safety and Health at Work which, in Ontario, governs health and safety at work, sets out the legal responsibilities incumbent upon employers, supervisors and workers. These responsibilities are not complicated, but if we did not pay, injury, illness or death of a worker may result.
What is the internal responsibility?
The legal responsibilities of employers, supervisors and workers overlap and complement each other. Together, they constitute what is commonly called the internal responsibility system or SRI.
In summary, the IRS means that everyone has a role to play and the duty to contribute actively to ensure the safety of workers. Any worker who finds a problem of health and safety, such as a danger inherent in the workplace, has the obligation to report it to management. Once a threat is identified, the employer and the supervisor have an obligation to examine the problem and eliminate any risk that could hurt workers.
What are my three fundamental rights?
The right to know. You have the right to know the dangers inherent in your job. Your employer or your supervisor has t’informer of all that, in your work, you can cause injury. Your employer must provide you with the information you need to work safely.
Want to know more about the dangers?
The right to participate. You have the right to contribute to maintaining a workplace safe and healthy. Depending on the size of the company, you can be part of the health and safety representative or act as health and safety. Furthermore, you have the right to take part in training sessions and information to help you acquitter your tasks safely.
Want to know more about the committees on health and safety?
The right to refuse dangerous work. If you think your job may endanger you, you have an obligation to report the dangerous situation to management. If the situation is not remedied and that your opinion, your health and safety are always threatened, you have the right under the OHSA, refuse to perform the job without suffering retaliation.
What are my responsibilities?
Work Safely. Use machinery and equipment in accordance with the training you have received and not modify the equipment, take a shortcut or remove a safety device.
In fact, remove pieces of mobile equipment, dangerous areas or other sources of danger, a safety device or a device that was installed in order to protect a worker t’expose to a risk of injury, you and others who could use the equipment. Moreover, it means that you have broken the law and that you can be responsible for the consequences that result.
In case of doubt and before undertaking a task for which you have not been trained, always poses questions to your supervisor. If you work safely and responsibly, you most likely conform to the OHSA, the regulations arising as well as security rules in force within the company.
Indicates dangers. The workers know whether the equipment they use to execute their tasks is defective or if working conditions are different.
If you notice the absence of a safety device or the poor condition of equipment or protective devices, if you see pressens a danger or likely to cause injury or if you recorded an infringement of the laws on health and Security of Ontario, you should inform your supervisor or your employer as soon as possible.
Be proactive – in other words, said these situations as soon as thou observes, do not expect an incident occurs. If you know that a danger exists and neglects to mention, you will find very difficult to live with your conscience if an accident occurs that your intervention could have prevented.
Use door or protective equipment. The nets for the hair, rubber gloves, masks antipoussieres, aprons, ear protection, safety boots and goggles are perhaps not very fashionable, but these are parts of ‘equipment commonly used in the workplace and designed to protect workers against the potential dangers inherent in their work.
Where the employer requires that you doors protective equipment, it must show you how to use or wear and how to maintain it. You must then use or wear the device. N’enleve not a device or a safety device designed to protect you. Wear your protective equipment. It is not only sound advice, it is the law. No work is worth endangering your health and safety. Protect yourself and protect your family by working smarter!

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Workers have rights and responsibilities for their health