1) Research new training legislation for Supervisors & Workers, identify roles & responsibilities of all parties and how the IRS fits into the entire process. In this answer, identify the three principal rights of workers.
* The ministry of labour has introduced an occupational health an safety awareness program on November 15th 2013. This program provides fundamental information on rights and duties under the occupational health and safety act. Organizations must ensure that all workers and supervisors receive entry-level workplace health and safety training including rights and responsivities and the role of the joint health and safety committee. * The IRS (internal responsibility system), initiates that everyone in the workplace has responsibilities that ensure workers are safe. Every worker who sees a health and safety issue such as a hazard in the workplace has an obligation to report the situation to management. Once the hazard is identified, the employer and supervisor has a duty to look at the problem and eliminate any hazard that could injure workers. * Some of the responsibilities of the employers / supervisors is to recognize where there are potential hazards in the workplace, assess the hazard – supervisor need to understand how likely it is that a worker will get hurt or fall ill by the hazard, control the hazards to make the job safer, and evaluate how well the hazard controls are working. * Employers are also responsible for telling workers about hazards and dangers and responding to their concerns, showing workers how to work safely and making sure they follow the law, and the workplace health and safety policies and procedures, making sure workers wear and use the right protective equipment, doing everything reasonable in the circumstances to protect workers from being hurt or getting a work-related