scholarly journals Setting priorities: chemical hazard assessment and prioritization (CHAP): an intuitive excel tool

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Joo
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Assessment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Hazardous Chemicals ◽  
Chemical Hazard ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees

The purpose of CHAP is to assist small to medium workplaces and their Joint Health and Safety Committees to: 1. Better understand the hazards associated with the chemicals/products they are using; and 2. Prioritize the most ‘hazardous’ chemicals/products for additional assessment of the effectiveness of control measures which are currently in-place.

scholarly journals Setting priorities: chemical hazard assessment and prioritization (CHAP): an intuitive excel tool

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Joo
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Assessment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Hazardous Chemicals ◽  
Chemical Hazard ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees

The purpose of CHAP is to assist small to medium workplaces and their Joint Health and Safety Committees to: 1. Better understand the hazards associated with the chemicals/products they are using; and 2. Prioritize the most ‘hazardous’ chemicals/products for additional assessment of the effectiveness of control measures which are currently in-place.

Setting priorities: Testing a tool to assess and prioritize workplace chemical hazards

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Thomas Tenkate ◽  
Desré M. Kramer ◽  
Peter Strahlendorf ◽  
Terri Szymanski
Keyword(s):  
Safety Data ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Chemical Hazards ◽  
Chemical Hazard ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees

BACKGROUND: Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) training is obligatory for Ontario workplaces. The purpose of this training is to help workers understand the health and safety issues associated with using chemicals, including how to understand the information contained in the Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) that come with all chemicals. However, many workers still do not know how hazardous workplace chemicals can be and they find it difficult to objectively determine the level of hazard posed by the chemicals they use. OBJECTIVE: A team of researchers, unions, and health and safety associations created a tool for Joint Health and Safety Committees (JHSC) of small and medium-sized businesses to help them identify, assess and prioritize the health hazards posed by workplace chemicals using SDSs as the primary source of information. METHODS: The team recruited the JHSCs of six workplaces to pilot the usefulness of the Chemical Hazard Assessment and Prioritization (CHAP) tool. The CHAP tool helps workplaces rank their chemicals within one of five hazard levels using information contained in SDSs. RESULTS: Despite a difficult recruitment process, the participating JHSCs thought the CHAP process of assessing and prioritizing their workplace chemicals was useful. It raised their awareness of chemical hazards, increased their understanding of SDSs, and helped them prioritize their chemicals for improved control measures. CONCLUSIONS: Small and medium-sized businesses found the tool to be useful, but suggested that an electronic version would be easier to use.

The depoliticization of health and safety committees and representation: The Ontario case

2021 ◽  
pp. 030981682110615
Author(s):  
Alan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Canadian Data ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Responsibility System

Studies in several national jurisdictions have highlighted the limitations of joint health and safety committees and worker representatives in affecting change in working conditions. Using Canadian data, this article focuses on the argument that many health and safety committees and worker representatives have been captured or substantially controlled through the State’s promotion of an internal responsibility system framed around a technocratic partnership. The historical development of this framing is first understood within a political economic framework which highlights several major influences, followed by a field theory analysis which explains how these control relations are established by management within workplace settings.

Form and Function of Joint Health and Safety Committees in Ontario Acute Care Hospitals

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Nichol ◽  
Irena Kudla ◽  
Michael Manno ◽  
Lisa McCaskell ◽  
Joseline Sikorski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Acute Care Hospitals ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
And Function

Effectiveness of joint health and safety committees: A realist review

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalee Yassi ◽  
Karen Lockhart ◽  
Mona Sykes ◽  
Brad Buck ◽  
Bjorn Stime ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees

A Conversation about the Work Environment

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Sass
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees

The author looks at work environment matters from the perspective of public policy-making and the policy instruments used to deal with workplace health and safety: standard setting; joint health and safety committees; compliance, enforcement, and prosecution; workers' compensation as an economic incentive; and collective bargaining. While regarding all as necessary, the author considers them as separately and collectively, fundamentally flawed and therefore insufficient, because liberal public policy-making itself is problematic. He proposes an alternative way of thinking about this subject from the perspective of the “politics of meaning.”

scholarly journals A failure of voluntarism: the case of joint health and safety committees in Britain

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P.B. Beaumont ◽  
J.W. Leopold
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
The Impact

This paper sets out the history of the attempt to establish voluntary health and safety committees in Britain, their failure and the attempt to legislate for their development. The impact of this legislation is analysed and the paper concludes by presenting a framework, which it is argued, would be developed for analysing the impact of legislation in Britain and in other countries such as New Zealand.

Joint Health and Safety Committees:

1982 ◽  
Vol 82 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 20-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.B. Beaumont ◽  
J.W. Leopold
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees
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