Occupational Health & Safety

Dropbox #4

HLTH-6040 Occupational Health & Safety

Date: 04/02/2016

Submitted to: Bill Reid

Submitted by: Abhilasha bhanot

Bill 168, in the 2010 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act acknowledged the significance of keeping place of work safe from violence and harassment and its mandatory for managers to change and establish policies for such things. This case will discover how Bill 168 has put an impact on court and arbitral decisions where employees have been dismissed without notice causing an event of workplace violence. Bill 168 has played a major role in this case and after reading this case I realize that one of the main role this bill 168 plays is in work place violence that also include threats or any behaviour related to it. After reading this I got to know that in a company it is very important to provide employees knowledge and training regarding this policy or else it will create problems like in this case the employer was terminated. With this case I learnt that in human resource field this policy will help me maintain and allow me to conduct preventive measures against violence. In next paragraph we are going to talk about an impact of bill 168 on unionised workers, unions are to be expected to be keeping a check on the employer for compliance. The second reason is that it may look at a sign from the government’s selection of legislation to contend upon participation in the making, roll-out and training for the required policies. The third is entirely about the necessities under Bill 168 could be subjected to the grievance-arbitration procedure. The bill for employers link them to the bill’s presence of fear of violence as a ground for a work refusal under Section 43(3) and (4) of OHSA. One thing that I learned from this case is that the Bill 168 makes sure that union and employer bargain away this right to a harassment-free workplace to have a collective agreement when conflict occurs and with this awareness I can make sure that there are no conflicts taking place within the organization. Another case talks about bill 168 and two year review. It has been two years since bill 168 has been established and as it came into force it imposed new responsibilities on Ontario employers, school boards and organization. Since then there have been total 1,400 complaints that were issued by Ministry of Labour which is related to workplace harassment and violence. There are some important things that employers in Ontario are needed to do under bill 168, like they are supposed to take violence risk assessment in the company, prepare policies related to violence and harassment, establishing procedure for providing immediate assistance to protect employees from these things  and to give clear instruction regarding this policy. This is one thing that I will make sure in the company and will keep it in mind. So according to my learning the Bill 168 amendments reveals that employers must react fast and correctly when there is an charge of work violence or any such threat related to it.