Providing a workplace free from harassment is one of the basic responsibilities of an employer.
Supervisors
Supervisors
Supervisors
Employers are responsible for ensuring that WHMIS provides the protection it was designed to in the workplace. This includes proper implementation, training of employees, and maintaining up-to-date safety data sheets and labels. Employees also play a role in following safe work practices and protocols as outlined in the WHMIS training.
every employee
The DDA is responsible for ensuring that disabled people are not discriminated against in the workplace, school, or housing. DDA stands for Disability Discrimination Act.
When an accident requiring investigation occurs in a workplace, management is responsible for preserving the accident scene, after ensuring that necessary medical support is provided to anyone who was injured.
When an accident requiring investigation occurs in a workplace, management is responsible for preserving the accident scene, after ensuring that necessary medical support is provided to anyone who was injured.
The manufacturer is initially responsible for the safety of appliances that he makes and sells. Once appliances are purchased and placed in a workplace, the management of the workplace is responsible for ensuring that each appliance remains in proper working condition. Then the user is responsible for using the appliance properly and for ensuring that all safety devices are in place before it is used. Maintenance people who work on an appliance are responsible for returning it in safe and proper operating condition, or for tagging it, and perhaps locking it out, to prevent use when it is not ready for use.
The management has the main responsibility. But all the workforce is equally responsible to ensure there is no discrimination and harassment. Nobody should be able to say that it has nothing to do with me!
If a person is escorted in the workplace, that person's safety is the responsibility of the person providing the escort. That includes ensuring the the escorted person does not take any actions that would put himself or others at increased risk.
The person trying to communicate a message is the one responsible for ensuring that it is understood.