Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act: Responsibilities, Components, Metrics

This article discusses the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act, including the responsibilities of supervisors and workers, components such as workplace hazard identification and accident investigation, and metrics for measuring workplace safety. It emphasizes the importance of workplace safety training and reporting accidents to prevent future incidents. Course code, course name, and college/university are not mentioned.

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety
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Table of Contents
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act...................................................................................3
Responsibilities of a supervisor:..................................................................................................3
Responsibilities of a worker:.......................................................................................................3
Description of components:.........................................................................................................3
Importance of the described components....................................................................................4
Description of the metrics............................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

ALBERTA OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT
Responsibilities of a supervisor
 Establishment of safe work practices and ensuring the same is followed in the
company.
 Ensuring that workers are skilled and properly trained regarding their health and
safety aspect associated with job
 Examining serious events and injuries
 Preventing harassment and violence
 Maintaining the essential safety equipment
Responsibilities of a worker
 Proper care must be taken for protecting the health and safety at workplace
 Not to participate in violence or harassment
 Work together with other person who is exercising duty given under this act.
 Act according to the norms of the company
 Inform to the employer or the supervisor about the existence of the harmful or unsafe
site in the organization.
Description of components
(a) Identification of workplace hazards: it is the part of the health and safety program.It
means to identify the current or the probable risk for the workers at the workplace,
which consist of provocation, forcefulness, or physical, natural, biological threats for
the workers.

(b) Occupational health and safety training: according to the code of practice rules, any
worker to whom code of practice is applicable then it is compulsory for the worker to
get appropriate training.
(c) Workplace inspection: it is the duty of the health and safety committee to inspect the
worksite in a particular period of time. The officer can also inspect the workplace and
may request to other representative of the health and safety to join in that inspection
(Gordon, 2017).
(d) Accident investigation: The only accident related with provincial occupational and
safety can be inspected, other than this all the incident reported to the director of
inspection.
(e) Accident reporting: After the happening of the serious incident at the workplace, it is
the duty of the prime contractor or the employer to report the director of the
inspection about the date, place, time and nature of injury (Alberta, 2018).
Importance of the described components
(a) Identification of workplace hazard: for managing and ensuring the health and safety
measure it is important to identify the workplace hazard so that the risk associated at
the workplace can be reduced.
(b) Occupational health and safety training: by proper training workers can get to know
about the threat or risk from their job and take the actions in case of any accident
(Province of Alberta, 2018).
(c) Workplace inspection: workplace inspection ensures about proper code of practices
followed at the organization, in case of any irregularity identified, and then the
company can take the measure to resolve it.

(d) Accident investigation: it assists in finding out to get the main reason for the incident,
injury and harassment at the workplace, so that in future accident can be prevented.
(e) Accident reporting: this report helps the director of the investor to find out the nature,
date, time and place of the accident happened in the organization.
Description of the metrics
1) Matrix A: for the supervisor of the stock room, the office furniture, assembly area, and
office delivery services
a) Injuries – manual handling ( muscles disorder), fall from height
b) Measure- in every month
c) Importance- it assists in finding out the reason of the injury and the requirement of
the training to the employee of the company
2) Matrix B: supervisor of the hospital
a) Injuries- unhygienic environment, critical and major disease due to poor food quality
b) Measure- in every week
c) Importance- actions regarding the preventing the disease can be taken.

REFERENCES
Alberta, (2018). OHS incident investigations Retrieved from https://www.alberta.ca/ohs-
incident-investigations.aspx
Gordon, D. V. (2017). An index decomposition of factors impacting safety on the job
site. International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management, 7(3), 244-255.
Province of Alberta, (2018). OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT Retrieved from
http://www.qp.alberta.ca/documents/Acts/O02P1.pdf