Supervisor Responsibilities and Due Diligence
How the law makes supervisors responsible for safety, followed through the invented Harrowgate Foods, a bakery and frozen meals plant in Truro, a distribution centre in Dartmouth and a sauces plant in Kentville, Nova Scotia, after a night sanitation worker is injured on a spiral conveyor: how occupational health and safety law works in Canada, the internal responsibility system, the duties of employers and supervisors and what makes a supervisor competent, workers' rights to know, participate and refuse, due diligence after Sault Ste. Marie, inspections, orders, administrative penalties, prosecutions and appeals, building and proving due diligence, criminal liability after Westray and section 217.1, reporting to the Department and the WCB, documentation that protects workers, and a capstone supervisor's legal toolkit.
HSE-402 12 lessons · 4 h 5 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain how occupational health and safety law works in Nova Scotia and Canada, including the Act, regulations, the Department, the WCB and federal jurisdiction.
- Describe the internal responsibility system and how duties are shared among employers, supervisors, workers and committees.
- Identify the main duties of employers, including safe equipment, systems of work, training, supervision and a written program.
- Explain the duties of supervisors and what makes a supervisor competent in law and in practice.
- Apply workers' rights to know, participate and refuse, including the refusal steps and protection from discriminatory action.
- Explain due diligence as a legal standard, using Sault Ste. Marie and the duties of foresight, efficiency and authority.
- Describe inspections, orders, administrative penalties, prosecutions and appeals, and how supervisors should respond.
- Build and document due diligence evidence, using a records map and leading indicators.
- Explain criminal liability for workplace safety after Westray, including section 217.1 of the Criminal Code and the liability of organizations.
- Apply reporting and record-keeping duties to the Department and the WCB after workplace injuries and incidents.
- Write documentation that protects workers, using the five elements of a good record and written escalation.
- Assemble and use a supervisor's legal toolkit to turn legal duties into shift routines, responses and records.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 5 min total · final exam
- 1 How occupational health and safety law works in Canada 21 min · quiz
- 2 The internal responsibility system and shared duties 21 min · quiz
- 3 Duties of employers 20 min · quiz
- 4 Duties of supervisors and the competent supervisor 21 min · quiz
- 5 Workers' rights: know, participate and refuse 20 min · quiz
- 6 Due diligence: the legal standard 20 min · quiz
- 7 Inspections, orders, penalties and appeals 20 min · quiz
- 8 Building and proving due diligence 20 min · quiz
- 9 Criminal liability after Westray 21 min · quiz
- 10 Reporting and records: the Department and the WCB 20 min · quiz
- 11 Documentation that protects workers 20 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: the supervisor's legal toolkit 21 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How the law makes supervisors responsible for safety, followed through the invented Harrowgate Foods, a bakery and frozen meals plant in Truro, a distribution centre in Dartmouth and a sauces plant in Kentville, Nova Scotia, after a night sanitation worker is injured on a spiral conveyor: how occupational health and safety law works in Canada, the internal responsibility system, the duties of employers and supervisors and what makes a supervisor competent, workers' rights to know, participate and refuse, due diligence after Sault Ste. Marie, inspections, orders, administrative penalties, prosecutions and appeals, building and proving due diligence, criminal liability after Westray and section 217.1, reporting to the Department and the WCB, documentation that protects workers, and a capstone supervisor's legal toolkit.