Action4Canada - February 21, 2022


Worker's Rights and Responsibilities

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In this episode, we talk to Action for Canada Chapter Lead, Corrine Beresford-Lico, about Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) in Canada. She talks about the importance of occupational health and safety and the role of face masks in protecting workers.

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00:00:00.000 Thank you so much for having me. It's so important to get this information out. This is information
00:00:09.960 that anybody should know. My name is Corrine Beresford-Lico. I'm chapter lead for Action
00:00:16.240 for Canada for the Bonneville, Cold Lake, Lakeland, northeastern Alberta area. And I joined up with
00:00:24.960 Action for Canada last fall, more as an occupational health and safety consultant. I identified when
00:00:31.000 COVID hit that some of the crazy controls that were put into place didn't make a whole lot of
00:00:36.200 sense. With that, it affected my business. I own an occupational health and safety consulting business
00:00:41.920 that I pretty much had to take online because I wasn't willing to wear the mask, do the testing,
00:00:47.960 and then, of course, mandated vaccinations. With that, lost some contracts and decided,
00:00:55.380 you know what, I need to try and help people keep their jobs. So I was a big advocate of the
00:00:59.860 nervous liabilities and the importance of utilizing those. And then I also identified that not only
00:01:06.780 our rights, our laws were being walked on. I identified our occupational health and safety
00:01:14.820 laws were also being walked on. So I started to use those with a lot of the workers who were losing
00:01:19.420 their positions at such places like CNRL, in the oil and gas industry, and helping people utilize
00:01:25.860 what we call workers' rights and responsibilities and your main rights. So I'm going to go ahead and
00:01:32.140 grab this screen and show you guys a little bit of a PowerPoint presentation.
00:01:37.680 Just want to make sure you got the right screen up there. Workers' rights. Over. So all 0.99
00:01:47.780 occupations in Canada, regardless of what province you're in, followed by laws that are set out by
00:01:55.200 occupational health and safety. And each province has different laws. You're going to see at the end
00:01:59.500 that we've actually added a list of links to every province in Canada, where you can go and look
00:02:07.260 at where your rights and responsibilities are, as well as where they impact such things as workplace
00:02:15.100 violence and harassment or bullying. All workers, no matter what you do, whether you're a nurse,
00:02:22.420 a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, or a McDonald's burger flipper, you have to follow occupational health
00:02:28.860 and safety responsibilities and legislation. What are an employer's responsibilities? Your employer must,
00:02:36.460 as far as reasonably practical, ensure you're aware of your rights as a worker and you are trained in
00:02:42.540 your rights, as well as prevention and procedures for workplace violence and harassment. And this
00:02:47.260 includes members of the public on a work site. Very important to know that. OH&S legislation does not
00:02:53.240 only include the worker, it also includes anybody who would be on the vicinity of a work site. So in
00:02:58.820 the response with, as a teacher, you're the worker, you're employed by education,
00:03:03.460 and the children or the other personnel on the job site are followed under this law or required to follow
00:03:11.180 this law. So supervisors must point one is to ensure managers and supervisors comply with OH&S law and are aware
00:03:20.340 of it. Point two, it gets into the prescribed PPE, which is determined by step three and the responsibility of
00:03:26.980 employers to identify, know for your right to know the hazards and determine control methods such as PPE
00:03:34.660 for potentially whatever the hazard would be, just noting that PPE is the last line of defense.
00:03:42.820 So when you look at responsibilities, what are your responsibilities? You work in compliance with
00:03:49.860 occupational health and safety acts and regulations. And use personal protective equipment that is prescribed
00:03:56.580 or directed by your employer, noting that the use of PPE is directed by such things as a risk assessment that the
00:04:03.700 employer is obliged to do through section two of the Occupational Health Safety Code, for example, in Alberta. Point three, which is reporting hazards.
00:04:12.580 And gets into the last point where workers in a safe, working in a safe manner, using the prescribed safety equipment
00:04:22.740 and discuss with supervisors, employers about concerns with PPE if you feel they're dangerous.
00:04:29.620 So I'm going to identify masks as an example. Scientists, scientific support for the use of face masks
00:04:37.540 show that out of 17 peer reviewed studies that were analyzed, concluded that none of these studies
00:04:45.380 established a conclusive relationship between mask respiratory use and the protection of protection against
00:04:51.220 COVID-19. In fact, and this is information that should have been identified or people should have been asking
00:04:58.180 questions about, is that they found that a third of the workers developed headaches with the use of a mask. Most had
00:05:04.820 pre-existing headaches that were worsened with the mask wearing and 60% required pain medication for relief.
00:05:12.420 Such things as headaches were caused with the straps, pressure. Anybody who wears a mask all day
00:05:18.020 knows the effects of what they do to you, including there's evidence that direct us towards hypoxia and or hypercapnia as the cause.
00:05:29.380 That is a reduction in blood oxygen level, hypoxia or an evaluation of blood CO2, which is hypercapnia.
00:05:36.660 It is known that N95 masks, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygen as much as 20%.
00:05:45.140 So definitely an opportunity to say, hey, I need to know what the hazards of these are. And as a worker,
00:05:52.100 you have those rights. You have the right to know the hazards of say the masks.
00:05:56.980 OH&S legislation states that a worker must have an ambient O2 level between 19.5 and 23.9%.
00:06:05.460 So you have a right to participate in risk assessments, tests and safety trainings,
00:06:10.180 and to participate in demonstrations like the one we did, where we tested with a forehead monitor,
00:06:15.380 generally used in the oil and gas industry, that does test O2 levels, LEL levels, H2S and CO2 levels.
00:06:22.340 And we demonstrated by putting a probe inside the mask that the oxygen level and just in a cloth mask,
00:06:30.100 you're only getting about 18.2% of oxygen. Remember, you need to be between 19.5 and 23.9
00:06:39.220 without ventilating, ventilation or something giving you more oxygen. And then again, you know, those ones,
00:06:45.940 those disposable ones that are filling up our landfills and our oceans, they're actually coming
00:06:52.980 up at about 18.5%. And then that gets worse. When you look at something like CO2, when we put the
00:06:59.860 little probe in, we're measuring people with CO2 carbon dioxide at around 5,000 ppm exposure limit,
00:07:08.980 which is identified in any OHNS manual on a table that says that your limit for eight hours is 10,000
00:07:16.740 ppm at rest, and 30,000 ppm ceiling. The scary part is we recorded as high as I'm sorry, it was 5,000
00:07:26.580 ppm is what your eight hour is, but we were recording about 10,000 ppm at rest, and about 40,000 in vents
00:07:34.740 like gym, somebody's in gym running, and are getting 40,000 when the ceiling for that over a
00:07:41.700 15 minute period is 30,000. So there's just so much information out there to identify that we had the
00:07:49.460 ability to refuse wearing these masks, because they are dangerous, and they are a hazard. So with that,
00:07:56.900 you have a right to know, like I said, right to participate in those kinds of discussions,
00:08:01.380 safety meetings, and then again, you have the obligation to refuse unsafe work. This is written
00:08:07.060 in occupational health and safety legislation across Canada. So this includes the right to know
00:08:13.380 about the corrective actions from incidents, safety alerts, sites inspections, those kinds of things.
00:08:21.140 Employers have the right to take an active role in safety within the workplace, they have a right to
00:08:25.620 participate. It also means that employees shall report unsafe conditions to their employer immediately.
00:08:32.020 voice concerns about health and safety in the workplace and participate in workplace inspections
00:08:36.660 and other worksite safety initiatives. This also includes any safety training that may be required
00:08:42.820 for the job. So that would be knowing how to wear the PPE properly. When you look at the face masks,
00:08:50.180 again, you know, you're grabbing them, you're moving them all the time, they're dirty, I have a son who
00:08:55.860 ended up with pleurisy from having to wear it all the time. So there is a huge danger to them.
00:09:04.980 So there's an obligation to refuse unsafe work, not just your right. Unsafe work is work that involves
00:09:10.980 any imminent danger, I would say lack of oxygen is imminent danger. And it can be a danger that is
00:09:16.980 not normal for the type of work or a danger under which a worker in that type of work would not
00:09:22.260 normally do the work. And a person must not. And when I say must, OHS means that you must not carry out
00:09:30.900 work cause to be carried out any work process or operate or cause to be operated any tool, appliance
00:09:38.500 or equipment. If the person has reasonable cause to believe that to do so would create an undue hazard
00:09:45.380 to the health and safety of a person. A worker who refuses to carry out a work process or operate a
00:09:51.140 tool, appliance or equipment must immediately report the circumstance of the unsafe condition to his or
00:09:56.500 whose supervisor. If the emergency action is required to correct a condition which constitutes an emergency
00:10:03.780 threat to an employee or a subcontractor or anybody else on the job site, the instructor personnel
00:10:10.820 necessary to correct the unsafe condition may be exposed to the hazard and every possible effort
00:10:16.660 must be made to control the hazard while it is being done. So June 2018 there was a massive update
00:10:24.980 to Occupational Health and Safety across Canada aligning the right to refuse dangerous work, the right to
00:10:30.100 know, the right to participate all the way across Canada. It also identified that workers may refuse
00:10:36.580 to perform the dangerous work and are protected from any form of reprisal from exercising this right.
00:10:44.260 And a worker must continue to be paid while a work refusal is being investigated. And then other
00:10:50.820 workers may not be assigned to the work if there is that type of refusal happening and an investigation
00:10:57.060 happening. So in all reality, according to Occupational Health and Safety, work should have been stopped if
00:11:02.260 there was a concern and investigation should have been it should be done. So that was one of the
00:11:07.140 reasons we created the eye care card. It gave the person an opportunity to document that information
00:11:12.260 when you're dealing with the right to refusal and getting those questions answered. So general practice
00:11:20.980 for the work of an end. So examining the hazards of the situation, looking for existing controls, informing a
00:11:28.100 supervisor. And then if an existing control cannot be applied to remove the hazard, the worker should
00:11:33.620 inform the supervisor of conditions and reason why work is imminent danger and suggested solutions.
00:11:40.340 And one sec and await a supervisor's instructions. Sorry, I had a phone go off in the background.
00:11:46.900 Sorry about that, guys. So again, under no circumstances of anyone to perform work that has been refused
00:12:00.100 unless the hazards been addressed. So we're dealing with some of these contract companies such as CNRL.
00:12:09.220 They ignored it. We serve them with notice of liabilities. And a lot of these individuals were put on
00:12:16.500 unpaid leave. I had quite a group of people, actually 17 CNRL employees, all put in a right to refuse unsafe work
00:12:25.620 claim for an investigation. It caused quite a tizzy within CNRL. And they actually ended up getting
00:12:32.340 an additional week on paid leave instead of unpaid leave. Unfortunately, OH&S is corrupted in Alberta,
00:12:40.900 probably all across the country, because they are a government organization. And they came out with a
00:12:47.860 letter stating that under OH&S, if it's directed by a public health officer and recommended controls for
00:12:58.340 COVID-19, the dangerous condition has been addressed and there's no right to refuse. But they still fail to
00:13:05.220 provide the risk assessment or ensure that the organization conducted the risk assessment to
00:13:12.100 identify that the controls put in outweighed the requirement of the risk. We also have a question
00:13:18.340 in relation to right to refuse unsafe work. Okay, Anwax? Yeah, yeah. Thanks. My question is actually in terms
00:13:30.420 of students, like I'm a teacher, and I have a medical exemption, so I don't have to wear a mask.
00:13:35.300 But I'm running into problems with my admin asking me and essentially forcing me to ask students to
00:13:43.460 wear a mask. And so my stance has been, if a student wants to wear a mask, or if their family has asked
00:13:48.820 them to wear a mask, that's fine. But it's not my place to tell students to wear a mask. So how do you see
00:13:56.820 that working in terms of my rights, in terms of forcing this, which I know is unhealthy, on the
00:14:02.740 students? Yeah. So again, it's a requirement by OH&S in any province for your organization or your
00:14:09.940 business or, you know, the school board to do a risk assessment and to do that with you. So you have a
00:14:16.580 right to know what the hazards of coronavirus are, as well as what the hazards of wearing a mask are.
00:14:22.900 And you have a right to participate in such thing as discussions and risk assessments to establish
00:14:28.340 what those risks are. And that is something that has been missing from every organization.
00:14:34.580 For all the notice of liabilities that I've served, that's one of the very first questions I ask is,
00:14:38.820 where is your risk assessment to justify the necessity of this and what the actual potential harms
00:14:45.380 on utilizing that control would be? And it's something they're failing to do,
00:14:52.020 but they're obligated by occupational health and safety in Alberta. It's section two of the
00:14:57.620 occupational health and safety code. It's also written in the regulation and the act that an employer
00:15:02.900 must assess the hazards and the controls on the work site.
00:15:07.380 Yeah. And that would be the same in BC, like with work. Absolutely. I'm 100%. Yeah. Great. Thanks.
00:15:14.740 No problem. Okay. I'm going to move. Oh, sorry. I'm going to ask one more question. Jen had asked in the chat,
00:15:22.820 how does that work if a co-worker says working with someone not wearing a mask is a safety risk?
00:15:29.300 Um, are they maintaining a six foot distance? Or do they spend, are they within six feet of each
00:15:40.340 other all the time? Right. One of the questions that I would ask because, um, that six foot diff distance
00:15:48.740 is an administrative control. And if we look at the risk matrix, which identifies the hierarchy of
00:15:54.740 controls, the highest hierarchy of control and the best control is elimination. Your next level is
00:16:02.020 substitution. Your next level is an administrative control, which is staying six feet away from each
00:16:08.340 other. And then your next line of defense is, um, uh, sorry, uh, elimination, substitution,
00:16:18.020 administration controls. I'm missing one. And then PPE is your last line of fence. So in all reality,
00:16:23.860 and the administrative control of staying six feet away from somebody is higher on the hierarchy and
00:16:29.780 better control than utilizing PPE. And that would be the conversation I would have from a risk
00:16:36.180 assessment standpoint. Well, just stay six feet away from me, clean your surfaces.
00:16:42.020 Right. And then there's, you know, we're looking at this always from two sides of the argument,
00:16:46.180 right? Uh, you know, as Jen has brought up, well, they've been convinced by the media and the
00:16:50.500 government that you're wearing a mask to keep others safe, which is intellectually, you know,
00:16:57.060 not, not honest and it doesn't make sense. And so then, uh, it would still be a matter of from what
00:17:03.140 I'm hearing from you is that there still has to be a risk assessment of putting a mask on that
00:17:08.660 individual. Even if the other person is uncomfortable, the reality of their discomfort
00:17:13.700 isn't based on facts. So there would have to be a risk assessment done on both sides.
00:17:18.740 Absolutely. A perfect example of that is for a hairdresser. Um, when you think of the mask
00:17:25.220 is on an individual, the hairdresser standing behind them, there was no risk assessment done
00:17:30.340 because in all reality, when that leaks out, if you were to leak out that hairdresser right above your
00:17:36.100 head, it would actually come out the sides and the top of the mask because it doesn't come through 0.61
00:17:42.340 the mask because that's your breathing barrier, right? It's stopping those droplets from coming
00:17:46.740 out when they're actually coming out the side. So if you were doing say a risk assessment with a
00:17:50.580 hairdresser, it would be identified that it's more likely that that mist or whatever would come out
00:17:58.740 the sides in the back of the mask. And so it's very clear that those risk assessments were never done
00:18:04.340 for specific tasks. It's even like a crane operator. He sits in the cab of his crane all day
00:18:09.860 by himself and communicates via a radio, you know, with a signal man or something. He doesn't even come
00:18:19.220 in contact with anybody else yet. He has to wear a mask. And now in Alberta and a lot of work sites
00:18:24.740 need to be vaccinated yet. He doesn't interact with anybody. So nobody's actually they've painted
00:18:31.860 everyone with the same brush and they haven't identified the specific risk of your task and what it
00:18:38.260 is that you do and how you interact. So in, in, in, in, in, in, in concluding with that, they've
00:18:46.900 really done a poor job of analyzing the risks and what appropriate controls are for the risks for
00:18:54.260 every situation. So when it comes to bullying and harassment, again, this is in Alberta. Again,
00:19:00.980 I'm going to refer that, but you can go to the links after and see where it's in different provincial
00:19:06.660 legislation. But in Alberta, it's Section 27 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
00:19:13.300 If you wanted to go look at you at it yourself. Bullying, violence and harassment are a major
00:19:20.100 portion of occupational health and safety. And the OH&S Act does not only affect the work site,
00:19:26.420 but anyone who may be on or near the work site. So in the relation of McDonald's or the individual
00:19:33.140 that's telling you, you must wear it in the store. Um, they are obliged to, um,
00:19:39.780 have this, uh, includes anybody who might be on the work site. So part one obligations of work site
00:19:46.980 parties, um, the obligation of the employer, every employer shall ensure as far as reason it is
00:19:53.540 reasonably practical for the employer to do so protect the health and safety and welfare of the workers
00:19:58.420 engaged in the work of the employer. Those workers not engaged in the work of the employer, but present
00:20:03.540 at the work site at which that work is being carried out and other persons at or in the vicinity of the
00:20:09.460 work site who may be affected by the hazards originating from the work site. New legislation
00:20:17.140 in June of 2018, as I identified, added that the employer's workers are aware of their rights and
00:20:24.900 duties under this act, the regulations and the OH&S code and any health and safety issues arising from
00:20:32.500 the work being conducted at the work site that none of the employer's workers are subject to or participate
00:20:38.580 in the harassment or violence at the work site. What is worksite harassment? Well, the Alberta OH&S Act
00:20:45.940 defines harassment as any single incident or repeated incidents of objectionable or unwelcome conduct,
00:20:53.140 comments, comments, bullying, physical or psychological harm, including sexual and domestic violence,
00:20:59.620 or actions by a person that the person knows or ought to reasonably know will or would cause offense
00:21:07.140 or humiliation to a worker or adversely affect the worker's health and safety, and include behaviors such as
00:21:15.540 physical assault or aggression, like I said, unsolicited or welcome conduct, comments, gestures, bullying or actions because of
00:21:23.540 religious disability, mental disability, age, place of origin, status, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexual solicitation or events,
00:21:39.540 physical harm to any individual which creates fear or mistrust or which compromises and or devalues the individual,
00:21:48.260 exclusion or isolation of individuals, you know, curbside pickup, intimidation, cyber bullying, displaying or
00:21:55.860 circulating offensive pictures or material in printer to electronic form. I just think all the ads and the propaganda that came out in the media when it comes to this and how the media is bullied and harassed us.
00:22:07.540 That's just screams to me when I read that deliberately setting the individual individual up to fail intentionally withholding information.
00:22:18.260 One of my biggest struggles with this whole thing is when you go as an occupational health and safety consultant, you do a lot of investigating, you investigate to ensure that loss does not happen again,
00:22:29.300 after it happens, after it happens.
00:22:31.300 And I have a blog on my site about the importance of every investigation, and how with this particular event and this loss, there's only one side of the narrative, there's only one bias we're allowed to follow or, you know, only one part of the evidence that we can look at it made me crazy.
00:22:47.300 Or giving wrong information. And I think this is one of the big ones that we are going to be able to follow up on at a later date, if we identify our concerns in writing now, whether it's a notice of liability or the eye care card.
00:23:05.300 And then, of course, taking away worker responsibility without cause and that's exactly what the vaccination mandate did to many of the people in my chapter.
00:23:17.300 So differences of opinion or minor disagreements between coworkers are also not generally considered to be workplace harassment, but can turn into harassment if no steps are taken to resolve a conflict.
00:23:31.300 Similarly, difficult conditions of employment such as professional practice limitations, organizational changes, or financial restrictions are not considered harassment either.
00:23:42.300 Work related stress on its own does not constitute harassment.
00:23:47.300 However, an accumulated amount of stress factors resulting from harassing behaviors such as those deliberately described earlier may result in a harassment situation.
00:23:59.300 In the law of negligence, the reasonable person standard is that standard of care that a reasonable prudent person would observe under a given set of circumstances.
00:24:10.300 An individual who subscribes to such standards can avoid liability for negligence.
00:24:15.300 So similarly, a reasonable act is what which might fairly and properly be required of an individual.
00:24:23.300 So when that comes to reasonable actions, that's what they mean.
00:24:26.300 And it means that your your concerns are reasonable.
00:24:29.300 So why is it important an employer's mental health plays a vital role with regard to his or her productivity and engagement, thus determining whether he or she contributes positively into attaining the objective of the organization.
00:24:46.300 Harassment discrimination has a significant impact on one's emotional and mental health.
00:24:52.300 Hence, it's imperative for this organization to take care of their employees emotional well being and provide a workplace free of discrimination violence and harassment.
00:25:01.300 And they have responsibilities to do that.
00:25:04.300 Every employer must develop and implement workplace harassment and violence prevention plans.
00:25:10.300 And I'll pretty much guarantee you, if you work for an organization, they have a health and safety management system and in it is a policy on the right to refuse, as well as a policy on workplace violence and harassment.
00:25:22.300 I would highly suggest having conversations about reviewing that policy if you're dealing with the inability to write to know your hazards or if you are being harassed, bullied or coerced in any way to follow the mandates or to be vaccinated.
00:25:39.300 The plan must include a prevention policy and prevention procedures and it be in writing and readily available for reference by workers at the work site, either in paper or electronic form.
00:25:53.300 Employers must instruct workers on the hazards of workplace harassment and violence and how to recognize the signs of the danger and what to do about it and how to report it.
00:26:02.300 The investigation process. So in the event that you bring up a concern employer must carry out an investigation of an incident of harassment or violence and take action to address the incident and prevent it from happening again.
00:26:17.300 And the employer must prepare an investigation report outlining the circumstances of the incident and the corrective actions. This report must be retained for at least two years by law after the incident and the employer must ensure the report is readily available and provide a copy of the report to an Alberta OH&S officer on request.
00:26:36.300 This is in Alberta, be the same in any province, an OH&S officer may also conduct an investigation of the incident to determine contraventions of the OH&S legislation. So in the event you have an individual that should have done something and they didn't.
00:26:53.300 The officer may conduct interviews gather evidence to determine what happened and work site parties are required to cooperate with the officer.
00:27:01.300 So your number one thing you want to do is if you come into an issue with an individual, whether it's somebody continually telling you to lift up that mask or, or threaten you, even when it comes to schools, dealing with some of the horrific stories I've heard about an individual who was told that you could have your, your parents could lose you, you could be taken
00:27:31.280 taken away because your parents are taken away because your parents are taken care of your health and safety by having you vaccinated. The adult, the person, the child needs to know that they cannot be talked to, they can't be treated like that. They need to stand up to the offender. Do not allow anyone to talk to you like that.
00:27:48.280 Any person who believes that any person who believes that they have been subject to violence or harassment has the right to access assistance in dealing with it. It is imperative that they tell their abuser right away that their behavior is offensive.
00:28:04.280 And, um, and, um, they must report it. They must tell somebody that it happened. So that's why I created the eye care card. And what it really is, is a hazard ID card that we use in the field to address what the hazards are, um, and to report hazardous conditions, threats, bullying, um, psychological harm. It gives you opportunity to document exactly when it happened, the date, the location, what time it happened, who the abuser was.
00:28:33.280 Who the abuser was, or what the hazard was, uh, anybody observe it, any witnesses, what happened, what could be the result of that. When you think of the child, he was told they could be taken away. That could be psychological harm that could last forever on that child. Uh, was it corrected? Was it something that you dealt with right away? If not, what did you do to follow it up? And I state with NOLs, you know, keep a copy, uh, serve a copy to whoever it is that you're reporting.
00:29:03.280 It too. Um, on the back of the card, um, on the back of the card, um, on the back of the card, I've included, uh, an opportunity to have a discussion and educate others on what bullying and harassment is. Even your kids, make sure they know that nobody can ever talk to you.
00:29:18.000 Like you are, um, uh, being, um, uh, being, um, humiliated or gestures that are offensive or saying things, um, that are bullying actions. Um, it's very interesting. So I think February 23rd is bullying day.
00:29:32.420 I think it wouldn't be amazing to, um, get this out there on that day and have some conversations with people who have been bullying and harassing.
00:29:42.240 So in the event that you do it or investigating an employer must investigate an incident. That's why I think this is so powerful. Um, employers must offer support to a worker who is affected, uh, by an incident or harassment or violence in the workplace.
00:29:56.780 Affected workers should be advised to consult a health and safety professional, uh, for treatment if they feel like they've been bullied and harassed or feeling stress over the long period of time we've been dealing with.
00:30:09.140 And employers cannot make any deduction from a worker's wages and benefits if the treatment session that you have to take, um, are done during working hours, just so you know.
00:30:19.300 But, um, the employer must prepare an investigation report of every single report that they do get and employers must again retain these for at least two years.
00:30:29.000 This is an example of an incident report that would be on any workplace. It would get into when it happened again, same idea, what's on the hazard ID card.
00:30:37.200 And then here is where you would do the hazard assessment, uh, where you would identify what the particular hazard is that you're dealing with, what you're being bullied and harassed, and what that would be, what the, um, potential control is, what the risk is, and who's responsible for putting it in.
00:30:53.740 Um, this is an example of a risk matrix to identify the severity and probability of the risk, and then that is a risk matrix that you see on there.
00:31:04.000 Um, I'm just going to go back for a second.
00:31:07.640 What I have to say is nothing will change, uh, if we don't correct this abuse, uh, if we don't document as evidence, report immediately and stop the abuse, uh, this will be even more important in the days to come.
00:31:19.820 If we win these mandates, if we no longer have to follow the mandates, this is a document and a system we can use to get rid of the bad apple.
00:31:27.800 Those supervisors, those managers who didn't listen to your concerns, they ignored and dismissed you because remember, they have to be trained in, in this, if they're in a position to lead or direct work.
00:31:40.140 If it's caused you distress with bullying and constant coercion, exclusion, segregation, or isolation of individuals, intentionally withholding information, I tell a lot of people request SDSs for the cleaning products used in the schools.
00:31:55.300 There's reports that people have been harmed.
00:31:57.640 They've gotten sick from the over excessive cleaning.
00:32:01.040 Um, I've asked for, I've got the SDSs for what is in the vaccination or giving the wrong information, um, when they're saying it's safe and effective.
00:32:11.180 Well, let's look at Bayer's data, right?
00:32:13.340 And identify what that says, or even what it says in the Canadian government website for adverse reactions.
00:32:19.280 Legally, every complaint must be investigated and an Alberta occupational health or a OH&S officer, wherever, what province you're in, um, have to, can monitor the, uh, the compliance.
00:32:31.040 With requirement to investigate incidents of harassment and violence and officers can write orders where worksite parties, uh, when they don't demonstrate, uh, compliance.
00:32:40.700 And just on a note, I know in Alberta and workplace BC, uh, WCB in the case of work to play workplace bullying harassment, uh, WCB can provide compensation coverage when the bullying or harassment has led the victim to developing a diagnosable injury or illness.
00:32:58.820 Some related diagnosis include depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
00:33:06.440 And I'm sure a few people will go through that after this two years of, uh, constant mandates and in a lot of way, bullying and harassment.
00:33:14.960 Mental stress is commonly used term that describes a person's physical and psychological response to events or change occurring or changes occurring in his or her life.
00:33:24.160 Um, these events are known as stressors and some level of stress is a normal part of life.
00:33:29.840 However, when a person's ability to cope with the stressors is overwhelmed, um, distress, which is a negative form of mental stress can develop and result in a diagnosable psychological or, uh, psychiatric injury.
00:33:45.740 If you experience at work has resulted in an injury, WCB can provide compensation coverage and arrange for treatment.
00:33:55.240 So this is where, um, I have all the links and I've identified links.
00:33:59.320 All of these links will take you to all of the OH&S requirements, but the links really will take you to workplace violence harassment or your right to refuse.
00:34:08.360 Um, and they are on the A4C website as Tanya's identified.