You are the worker representative on the Joint Health and Safety Committee. You are requested to attend a job refusal. A new worker has been told he can go home if he is worried that fibreglass is bad for his health. He admits, when you ask him, that he didn't ask for any protective equipment. However, he is frightened of fibreglass and refuses to accept work with that hazard. His foreman says that all the other workers have always done the job with no complaints and, furthermore, as far as he knows, with no ill effects.

1.Has the new worker, in simply refusing to do the job and asking for you, acted properly?2.What do you think he should have done?3.What do you do if you can't advise the worker whether fibreglass is, or is not, a hazard?