Occupation Health and Safety Assignment 2022

Running head: OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
Occupation Health and Safety
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Explain the purposeWorkers Compensation Act of Alberta...........................................................3
Duties of the employers when an accident has occurred in the workplace.....................................3
Steps, followed by the employees in dealing with the accident......................................................4
Recommendations for managing Return to Work program for the employee................................5
Differentiate the type of direct and indirect costs of accident in the workplace.............................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
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OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
Introduction
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the occupational health and safety by evaluating
Workers Compensation Act of Alberta. The duties of employers in terms of dealing with
accident in the workplace will also be discussed in the paper.
Explain the purposeWorkers Compensation Act of Alberta
Workers Compensation Act of Alberta is one of the most critical regulatory frameworks,
which intends to guide the firms in order to deal with accident at workplace. According to the
act, accident is one of the most challenging situations, which can happen at any point of time in
the workplace. The fundamental purpose of Workers Compensation Act of Alberta is to provide
benefit to the staffs, faced accident in the workplace (Reese, 2015). In addition, this act also
deals with the human rights issues of the staffs along with their complaints. This act also deals
with protecting the fundamental rights of the staffs, who are facing discrimination in the
workplace in the way of getting employment opportunity, accessing the training and
development program and take part in the decision making process (Albertahumanrights.ab.ca.
2019).
Duties of the employers when an accident has occurred in the workplace
Workplace accident is one of the most challenging situations, which can affect the
organizational productivity. Thus, it is the legal obligations of the employers to ensure the fact
that their organization is free from any kind of hazardous situation and the employees have
appropriate health and safety training which can enable them to deal with the accident easily. It
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