9.16 Exercises/Activities for Teachers and Students

Exercises

  1. Review the Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations. Share something you did not know that was a law related to health and safety. Brainstorm in large group.
  2. Explain the role due diligence plays in designing a health and safety plan for your company, as the HR Manager. Discuss with a partner.
  3. Some management employees believe that employees “have all the rights.” Do you support this statement? If so, why? If not, why? Share with a partner.
  4. Research online the Westray Law or former Bill C-45. What significance has it played in today’s companies? Discuss with a partner.
  5. As the HR Manager, you have one Supervisor, who never completes a Worker’s Compensation form when an employee has a small injury on the job. What would you tell this Supervisor about the importance and consequences of not filling in the form has for the Supervisor? The company? Share with a partner.
  6. Your company has a Joint Health & Safety Committee. However, they have not met in a year. How would approach the committee about the importance of their role, as the HR Manager? What could you do as the HR Manager to support the committee? Discuss in a small group.
  7. You, as the HR Manager, are aware that an Ontario Health & Safety officer is scheduled for an inspection next week of your company. What steps do you take once you aware of the inspection date? Share with a partner.
  8. Review online the WHMIS course materials. Individually. Discuss the requirements of Workplace hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) with a partner.
  9. An employee has been off work due to an injury for 6 months. They are returning in 2 weeks. You, as the HR Manager,  need to prepare a Return To Work Plan.  What steps would you take to prepare this plan?  Discuss in a small group.
  10. You work as the HR Manager is a large car manufacturing company (2000 employees). What type of illness could fall under the category for 1. Occupational illness 2. Industrial disease. Brainstorm in large group.
  11. As the HR Manager, you have reviewed your illness data over the last year. You discover that several employees have taken short-term leaves of absences due to stress. What can you do to support employees to reduce stress levels? Brainstorm in large group.
  12. Workplace bullying is common in today’s workplace, even though there are laws prohibiting it, and to eliminate it. You need to create a campaign and training to educate and make employees aware that bullying is not tolerated in your company. How would you, as the HR Manager, go about this? Discussion in a small group.
  13. Read the Incident at a Canadian Sawmill in your text. Do you believe this explosion could have been avoided? How? Discuss in a small group.
  14. As the HR Manager, you need to train the Joint Health & Safety Committee in the investigation steps of an incident. How would you design the Lesson Plan? What would you include in the training? Discuss in small group.
  15. You have returned from a conference related to creating a safe culture. You want to ensure your company develops a safe culture for all employees. How would you, as the HR Manager, design a safe culture program? Discuss in a small group.

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