chapter 3-3 health and safty short answers

1. Imagine you work for a large grocery store in your home town as an employee of the deli department. An incident with the meat grinder has left you with significant lacerations on your hand and you are unable to return to work. What type of assistance might you expect from workers' compensation? What could your manager do to expedite your return to work?

2. Outline the responsibilities of WCBs today. Describe how these responsibilities have changed over the years since the inception of workers' compensation in Ontario in 1914.

3. If you are employed, speak with the health and safety manager in your organization. If you are a student, ask to speak to the safety officer at your school. Obtain information about the organization's sector, assessment, and record-of-experience ratings. 4. Various jurisdictions have struggled with how employees should be compensated for stress-related disabilities. Using the workers' compensation websites listed in OH&S Notebook 3.2, check to see how the following scenarios are handled in your jurisdiction: a. mental-mental stress at work results in a psychological disorder (e.g., depression) b. mental/physical-mental stress at work results in a physical disorder (e.g., heart attack) c. physical/mental-an incident at work results in a psychological disorder (e.g., anxiety attacks)

5. Lorax Industrial operates one 12-hour shift per day for 220 days per year. It employs 315 people. The company records show a history of incidents and injuries: 3 medical aid injuries with no days lost 15 property damage incidents with a total 35 days lost 11 equipment failures that caused a total 20 days lost 19 injuries requiring medical attention with a total 75 days lost

Calculate the following (refer to OH&S Notebook 3.4 for the formulas): a. frequency b. severity

6. Explain how Lorax Industrial's severity rate can have a significant increase while the frequency rate has a very minor increase.

7. Check the workers' compensation board in your area. What cost savings are available to firms that improve their health and safety record? What obligations exist to implement return-to-work procedures?

8. Most WCBs publish their current rates online. Pick a single industry and find the appropriate rate group assessment across all provinces and territories. Which pays the highest rates? Which pays the lowest?