Book Title: Trades Access Common Core | Line A: Safe Work Practices | Competency A-1

Subtitle: Control Workplace Hazards

Authors: Olaf Nielson; Rod Lidstone; Brian Coey; and Mark Siljander with 2021 edits

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Book Description: Safety is a part of the job. It is a shared responsibility between employees, employers and their supervisors in dealing with hazards in the workplace. In British Columbia, WorkSafeBC is the provincial organization that promotes workplace health and safety for workers and employers, provides a process to address work related incidents and incident outcomes, education and regulation of workplace safety. A part of its duties is mandating workers' use of personal protective equipment to protect them from general and specific hazards in the workplace, and workers outfitted with the correct attire and personal protective equipment and educated in optimal performance of physical labour actions to reduce the risk of personal, co-worker and bystander injury.

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Book Description

Safety is a part of the job. When you take a job, you have a safety obligation to your employer, co-workers, family, and yourself. By recognizing and understanding the hazards in your work area, you can prevent the occurrence of many accidents. Most accidents are preventable. Both employees and employers must take responsibility for making the workplace safe.

Authors

Olaf Nielson; Rod Lidstone; Brian Coey; and Mark Siljander with 2021 edits

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Trades Access Common Core | Line A: Safe Work Practices | Competency A-1 Copyright © 2021 by Camosun College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Traditional trades, crafts and skills

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Title
Trades Access Common Core | Line A: Safe Work Practices | Competency A-1
Authors
Olaf Nielson; Rod Lidstone; Brian Coey; and Mark Siljander with 2021 edits
Editors
Monique Brewer; Adrian Hill; Farrah Patterson; Nannette Plant; and BCcampus
Reviewers
Mark Siljander; Tamara Pongracz; and Jessica Germain
Illustrators
Hilda Anggraeni; Dennis Evans; and Matt Zeleny
Contributors
Erin Johnston; Cory Williams; Spencer Tickner; Dwayne Gordon; and Ilona Ugro
License

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Trades Access Common Core | Line A: Safe Work Practices | Competency A-1 Copyright © 2021 by Camosun College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

© Camosun College. The Trades Access Common Core resources are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), except where otherwise noted. Under this licence, any user of this textbook or the textbook contents herein must provide proper attribution as follows:

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Primary Subject
Traditional trades, crafts and skills
Publisher
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Publication Date
July 20, 2021