The Occupational Health and Safety Act provides workers the right to a secure managed environment. It tells management to set up safety representatives and safety committees in the workplace.It in addition regulates things like toilets, change rooms, first aid, drinking water, washing facilities, protective clothing, machinery, stacking and packing, ladders, fire, ventilation, lighting, temperature, noise and asbestos.
Stakeholders in a workplace accident:
Worker whoe life and safety rights are at stake
Health workers whose duties are to expose unsafe work conditions
Employers who must let the business stay productive and workers happy
Labour Inspectors who must ensure Occupational Safety Regulations are adhered to.
WORKER'S HEALTH AND SAFETY RIGHTS
The Occupational Health and Safety Act sets out the workers' rights, including:
The right to data - for example, the vitality and safety hazards in the workplace and the well being and safety rules and procedures.
The duty to participate in inspections
The power to comment on legislation and make representations
The affirmative not to be victimised - for example, the worker cannot be dismissed when they participated in a workplace inspection or reported an accident.
The Act in addition sets out the responsibilities of workers and employers.
THE WORKER'S DUTIES
The worker must:
- take care of the own safety
- prevent effect to others persons
- cooperate investing in the employer all over improving quality of life and safety
- give information to a Labour Inspector
- wear safety clothing or use safety equipment where it is required
- report precarious or unhealthy conditions to the employer or quality of life and safety representative as soon as possible
- report an accident to the employer and the health and safety representative as swiftly as possible
- not to interfere in safety equipment after the accident.
