Name:

Kunwar Sandhu Date: Sept, 11 2017 Coop Program: Info Tech

WCB Safety Worksheet
**Please note that this worksheet must be completed before you begin your work placement.

To complete this worksheet, please visit:

http://worksafebcmedia.com/rights/course/course1386.html

or go to Work Safe BCYoung and new workersStudent ResourcesRights and Responsibilities for young and new
workers self-paced activity

1.) What are some of the responsibilities of the employer?

1. Providing workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to protect
their health and safety

Providing supervisor with the support and training necessary to carry out their health and safety
responsibilities
Ensure the health and safety of their workers and other workers at the workplace
Establish occupational health and safety policies and an Occupational Health and Safety program
Provide general direction to management, supervisors, and workers about their responsibilities
and roles in providing a safe and healthy workplace
Provide specific direction and delegate authority to those responsible for health and safety
Consult and cooperate with individuals carrying out occupational health and safety duties(including
joint committee members, worker health and safety representatives, and Compensation Board
prevention officers)
Provide workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to protect
their health and safety
Provide supervisors with the support and training necessary to carry out their health and safety
responsibilities
Provide and maintain protective equipment, devices, and clothing, and ensure that they are used


What the responsibilities of the supervisor?

Ensure the health and safety of all workers under their direct supervision.
Know the WorkSafeBC requirements that apply to work being supervised and ensure that they are
followed
Ensure that workers under their supervision are made aware of all known or reasonably foreseeable
health and safety duties
Consult and cooperate with joint committee members or workers health and safety representatives,
and cooperate with others carrying out occupational health and safety duties
Ensure that the appropriate personal protective equipment and clothing are available, properly worn
when required, and properly inspected and maintained

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 Investigate unsafe conditions reported to them and ensure that corrective action is taken without
delay
Supervisors must know and comply with occupational health and safety requirements. A Supervisor is
defined in the Occupational Health and Safety as a person who instructs, directs and controls workers
in the performance of their duties.





What are the responsibilities of the worker?

Cooperate with the joint committee or worker health and safety representative, WorkSafeBC officers,
and any other person carrying out occupational health and safety duties
Learn and follow safe work procedures
Be alert to hazards, and report hazards or problems to the supervisor or employer
Use the protective clothing, devices, and equipment provided
Perform work in a safe manner. Dont engage in horseplay or work while impaired by alcohol, drugs, or
other causes
Refuse to do work that they have reasonable cause to believe would create an undue hazard to the
health and safety of any person
Immediately report an unsafe situation to their supervisors or employer



2. Complete the following table below for the rights of each person:

Workers Rights Supervisors Rights Employers Rights
A safe working Pay attention during health
A safe working environment and safety training
environment Proper health and safety Remember their training
Proper health and safety info and training and follow health and
info and training Well-maintained and safety principles at all times
Well-maintained and functioning personal Report an perceived
functioning personal protective equipment protective equipment at all
protective equipment Refuse unsafe work times
Refuse unsafe work Not be discriminated Wear their personal
Not be discriminated against for exercising any protective equipment at all
against for exercising any rights or in carrying out times
rights or in carrying out health and safety Inform them about physical
health and safety responsibilities or mental conditions that
responsibilities Participate in workplace may impair their ability to
Participate in workplace health and safety perform their job safely
health and safety
committees and activities

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3. As a worker, what are some questions that you should ask to ensure your safety?

What safety training or education will I need?
What sort of emergency procedure will I be trained in?
Will I be required to use any safety gear or protective clothing?
If I have health and safety concerns, with whom should I speak?
If I am injured on the job, what should I do?
How will safety info be communicated to me?
What if I think a certain task is likely to endanger me or my co-workers?
Will I be required to work alone or late at night?










4. A machine is running without proper guards and protection. Who is responsible to address and fix
these issuesemployer, supervisor or worker? Explain your answer.

Your Employer. Law requires an employer to provide you with safety gear specific to your job tasks








5. A worker is caught not wearing protective eye wear. When confronted by an inspector, the worker
confesses that he was trained and knows the companys strict policy that eye wear must be worn on at
all times. In this scenario who is at fault: worker, supervisor or employer? Explain.

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 The Supervisor. It is the supervisors job to ensure that you wear protective gear at all times but it is the
responsibility of the worker to be wearing the proper protective gear








6. What does due diligence mean? How does this help in safety?

Due diligence reasonable steps taken by a person in order to satisfy a legal requirement, especially in
buying or selling something. It helps because it makes you do everything by the book and following the proper
safety procedures

For questions 7 -12, please answer True or False for each question:


7. A supervisor cannot be held liable for a work place accident unless he or she holds the official title of
supervisor.
FALSE

8. Upon promotion, supervisors always receive training in health and safety in addition to supervisory
training.
TRUE

9. Workers have the legal right to refuse work they have reasonable cause to believe is unsafe.
TRUE


10. New workers dont have any health and safety rights on the job---they can get fired for speaking up.
FALSE



11. Two of the most important factors in preventing new worker injuries are training and supervision.
TRUE


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12. Employers are not responsible for assigning responsibility, accountability or authority to supervisory
staff.

FALSE




I acknowledge that I have watched the safety video and answered these
questions to the best of my ability independent of anyone else.



Name: KUNWAR SANDHU_______________ Signature: