Common use of ARTICLE HEALTH SAFETY Clause in Contracts

ARTICLE HEALTH SAFETY. The Employer and the Union agree that they mutually desire to maintain standards of safety and health in the home in order to prevent injury and illness. A joint management and employee health and safety committee shall be constituted with representation of at least half by employees from the various bargaining units and of employees who are not represented by Unions and who do not exercise managerial functions, which shall identify potential dangers, recommend means of improving the health and safety programs and obtaining information from the Employer or other persons respecting the identification of hazards and standards elsewhere. The committee shall normally meet at least once a month. Scheduled time spent in such meetings is to be considered time worked. Minutes shall be taken of all meetings and copies shall be sent to the Employer and to the Union. The Union agrees to limit representation from the full-time and part-time bargaining units to one (1) joint representative which may be increased by mutual agreement of the parties. Two (2) representatives of the Joint Health and Safety Committee, one (1) from management and one (1) from the employees on a rotating basis designated by the shall make monthly inspections of the work place and equipment and shall report to the health and safety committee the results of their inspection. In the event of accident or injury, such representatives shall be notified and shall investigate and report as soon as possible to the committee and to the Employer on the nature and causes of the accident or injury. Furthermore, such representatives must be notified of the inspection of a government inspector and shall have the right to accompany him on his inspections. Scheduled time spent in all such activities shall be considered as time worked. The Joint Health and Safety Committee and the representatives thereof shall have reasonable access to the annual summary of data from the Workers' Compensation Board relating to the number of work accident fatalities, the number of lost workday cases, the number of lost workdays, the number of non-fatal cases that required medical aid without lost workdays, the incidence of occupational injuries, and such other data, as The Workers' Compensation Board may decide to disclose. The Union agrees to endeavour to obtain the full co- operation of its membership in the observation of all safety rules and practices. The employer will use its best efforts to make all affected direct care employees aware of the residents who have serious infectious diseases. The nature of the disease need not be disclosed. Employees who are not direct care employees will be made aware of special procedures required of them to deal with these circumstances. The parties agree that all employees are aware of the requirement to practice universal precautions in all circumstances. The parties agree that if incidents involving aggressive client action occur, such action will be recorded and reviewed at the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Reasonable steps within the control of the Employer will follow to address the legitimate health and safety concerns of employees presented in that forum. The parties further agree that suitable subjects for discussion at the joint Labour Management Committee will include aggressive resident. The Employer shall: inform Employees of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health and safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation; inform employees regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide training and supervision so that employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them; ensure that the applicable measures and procedures prescribed in the Health and Safety Act are carried out in the workplace.

ARTICLE HEALTH SAFETY. The Employer and the Union agree that they mutually desire to maintain standards of safety and health in the home in Home, order to prevent injury and illness. A joint management and employee employees health and safety committee shall be constituted with representation of at least half by employees from the various bargaining units and of employees who are not represented by Unions unions and who do not exercise managerial functions, which shall identify potential dangers, recommend means of improving the health and safety programs and obtaining information from the Employer or other persons respecting the identification of hazards and standards elsewhere. The committee shall normally meet at least once a month. Scheduled time spent in such meetings is to be considered time worked. Minutes shall be taken of all meetings and copies shall be sent to the Employer and to the Union. The Union agrees to limit representation from the full-time and part-time bargaining units to one (1) joint representative which may be increased by mutual agreement of the parties. Two (2) representatives of the Joint Health joint health and Safety Committeesafety com- mittee, one (1) from management and one (1) from the employees on a rotating basis designated by the employees, shall make monthly inspections of the work place and equipment and shall report to the health and safety committee the results of their inspection. In the event of accident or injury, such representatives shall be notified immediately and shall investigate and report as soon as possible to the committee and to the Employer on the nature and causes of the accident or injury. Furthermore, such representatives must be notified of the inspection of a government inspector and shall have the right to accompany him on his inspections. Scheduled time spent in all such activities shall be considered as time worked. The Joint Health and Safety Committee and the representatives representa- tives thereof shall have reasonable access to the annual summary of data from the Workers' Compensation Board relating to the number of work accident fatalities, the number of lost workday cases, the number of lost workdays, the number of non-fatal cases that required medical aid without lost workdays, the incidence incident of occupational injuries, and such other data, as The Workers' Compensation Board may decide to disclose. The Union agrees to endeavour to obtain the full co- operation of its membership in the observation of all safety rules and practices. The employer Employer will use its best efforts to make all affected direct care employees aware of the residents who have serious infectious diseases. The nature of the disease need not be disclosed. Employees who are not direct care employees will be made aware of special procedures required of them to deal with these circumstances. The parties agree that all employees are aware of the requirement requirements to practice universal precautions in all circumstances. The parties agree that if incidents involving aggressive client action occur, such action will be recorded and reviewed at the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Reasonable steps within the control of the Employer will follow to address the legitimate health and safety concerns of employees presented in that forum. The parties further agree that suitable subjects for discussion at the joint Labour Management Committee will include aggressive resident. The Employer shall: inform Employees of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health and safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation; inform employees regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide training and supervision so that employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them; ensure that the applicable measures and procedures prescribed in the Health and Safety Act are carried out in the workplaceresidents.

ARTICLE HEALTH SAFETY. The Employer and the Union agree that they mutually desire to maintain standards of safety and health in the home in order to prevent injury and illness. A joint management and employee health and safety committee shall be constituted with representation of at least half by employees from the various bargaining units and of employees who are not represented by Unions unions and who do not exercise managerial functions, which shall identify potential dangers, recommend means of improving the health and safety programs and obtaining obtain information from the Employer employer or other persons respecting the identification of hazards and standards elsewhere. The committee shall normally meet at least once a month. , Scheduled time spent in such meetings is to be considered time worked. Minutes shall be taken of all meetings and copies shall be sent to the Employer and to the Union. The Union Xxxxx agrees to limit representation from the full-time and part-time bargaining units to one (1) joint representative which may be increased by mutual agreement of the parties. Two (2) representatives of the Joint Health joint health and Safety Committeesafety committee, one (1) from management and one (1) from the employees on a rotating basis designated by the employees, shall make monthly inspections of the work place and equipment and shall report to the health and safety committee the results of their inspection. In the event of accident or injury, such representatives shall be notified immediately and shall investigate and report as soon as possible to the committee and to the Employer on the nature and causes of the accident or injury. Furthermore, Furthermore such representatives must be notified of the inspection of by a government inspector and shall have the right to accompany him on his inspectionsinspection. Scheduled time spent in all such activities shall be considered as time worked. The Joint Health and Safety Committee and the representatives representa- tives thereof shall have reasonable access to the annual summary of data from the Workers' The Compensation Board relating to the number of work accident fatalities, the number of lost workday cases, the number of lost workdayswork-days, the number of non-fatal cases that required medical aid without lost workdayswork-days, the incidence of occupational injuries, and such other data, data as The Workers' Compensation Board may decide to disclose. The Union agrees to endeavour to obtain the full co- operation of its membership in the observation of all safety rules and practices. The employer will use its best efforts to make all affected direct care employees aware of the residents who have serious infectious diseases. The nature of the disease need not be disclosed. Employees who are not direct care employees will be made aware of special procedures required of them to deal with these circumstances. The parties agree that all employees are aware of the requirement to practice universal precautions in all circumstances. The parties agree that if incidents involving aggressive client action occur, such action will be recorded and reviewed at the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Reasonable steps within the control of the Employer will follow to address the legitimate health and safety concerns of employees presented in that forum. The parties further agree that suitable subjects for discussion at the joint Labour Management Committee will include aggressive residentresidents. The Employer shall: inform Employees of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health and safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation; inform employees regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide training and supervision so that employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them; ensure that the applicable measures and procedures prescribed in the Health and Safety Act are carried out in the workplace.

ARTICLE HEALTH SAFETY. The Employer and the Union agree that they mutually desire to maintain standards of safety and health in the home home, in order to prevent injury and illness. A joint management and employee employees health and safety committee shall be constituted with representation of at least half by employees from the various bargaining units and of employees who are not represented by Unions unions and who do not exercise managerial functions, which shall identify potential dangers, recommend means of improving the health and safety programs and obtaining information from the Employer or other persons respecting the identification of hazards and standards elsewhere. The committee shall normally meet at least once a month. Scheduled time spent in such meetings is to be considered time worked. Minutes shall be taken of all meetings and copies shall be sent to the Employer and to the Union. The Union agrees to limit representation from the full-time and part-time bargaining units to one (1) joint representative which may be increased by mutual agreement of the parties. Two (2) representatives of the Joint Health joint health and Safety Committeesafety committee, one (1) from management and one (1) from the employees on a rotating basis designated by the employees, shall make monthly inspections of the work place and equipment and shall report to the health and safety committee the results of their inspection. In the event of accident or injury, such representatives shall be notified immediately and shall investigate and report as soon as possible to the committee and to the Employer employer on the nature and causes cause of the accident or injury. Furthermore, such representatives must be notified of the inspection of a government inspector and shall have the right to accompany him on his inspections. Scheduled time spent in all such activities shall be considered as time worked. The Joint Health and Safety Committee committee and the representatives represent- atives thereof shall have reasonable access to the annual summary of data from the The Workers' Compensation Board relating to the number of work accident fatalities, the number of lost workday cases, the number of lost workdayswork days, the number of non-fatal cases that required medical aid without lost workdays, the incidence of occupational injuries, and such other data, as The Workers' Compensation Board may decide to disclose. The Union agrees to endeavour to obtain the full co- operation of its membership in the observation of all safety rules and practices. The employer will use its best efforts effort to make all affected direct care employees aware of the residents who have serious infectious diseases. The nature of the disease need not be disclosed. Employees who are not direct care employees will be made aware of special procedures required of them to deal with these circumstances. The parties agree that all employees are aware of the requirement to practice universal precautions in all circumstances. The parties agree that if incidents involving aggressive client action occur, such action will be recorded and reviewed at the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Reasonable steps within the control of the Employer will follow to address the legitimate health and safety concerns of employees presented in that forum. The parties further agree that suitable subjects for discussion at the joint Labour Management Committee will include aggressive resident. The Employer shall: inform Employees of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health and safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation; inform employees regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide training and supervision so that employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them; ensure that the applicable measures and procedures prescribed in the Health and Safety Act are carried out in the workplace.

ARTICLE HEALTH SAFETY. The Employer and the Union agree that they mutually desire to maintain standards of safety and health in the home in order to prevent injury and illness. The employer will use its best efforts to make all affected direct care employees aware of the residents who have serious infectious diseases. The nature of the disease need not be disclosed. Employees who are not direct care employees will be made aware of special procedures required of them to deal with these circumstances. The parties agree that all employees are aware of the requirement to practice universal precautions in all circumstances. A joint management and employee health and safety committee shall be constituted with representation of at least half by employees from the various bargaining units and of employees who are not represented by Unions and who do not exercise managerial functions, which shall identify potential dangers, recommend means of improving the health and safety programs and obtaining information from the Employer or other persons respecting the identification of hazards and standards elsewhere. The committee shall normally meet at least once a month. Scheduled time spent in such meetings is to be considered time worked. Minutes shall be taken of all meetings and copies shall be sent to the Employer and to the Union. The Union agrees to limit representation from the full-time and part-time bargaining units to one (1) joint representative which may be increased by mutual agreement of the parties. Two (2) representatives of the Joint Health and Safety Committee, one (1) from management and one (1) from the employees on a rotating basis designated by the employees, shall make monthly inspections of the work place and equipment and shall report to the health and safety committee the results of their inspection. In the event of accident or injury, such representatives shall be notified immediately and shall investigate and report as soon as possible to the committee and to the Employer on the nature and causes of the accident or injury. Furthermore, such representatives must be notified of the inspection of a government inspector and shall have the right to accompany him on his inspections. Scheduled time spent in all such activities shall be considered as time worked. The Joint Health and Safety Committee and the representatives representa- tives thereof shall have reasonable access to the annual summary of data from the Workers' Compensation Board relating to the number of work accident fatalities, the number of lost workday cases, the number of lost workdays, the number of non-fatal cases that required medical aid without lost workdays, the incidence of occupational injuries, and such other data, as The Workers' Compensation Board may decide to disclose. The Union agrees to endeavour to obtain the full co- operation of its membership in the observation of all safety rules and practices. The employer will use its best efforts to make all affected direct care employees aware of the residents who have serious infectious diseases. The nature of the disease need not be disclosed. Employees who are not direct care employees will be made aware of special procedures required of them to deal with these circumstances. The parties agree that all employees are aware of the requirement to practice universal precautions in all circumstances. The parties agree that if incidents involving aggressive client action occur, such action will be recorded and reviewed at the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. Reasonable steps within the control of the Employer will follow to address the legitimate health and safety concerns of employees presented in that forum. The parties further agree that suitable subjects for discussion at the joint Labour Management Committee will include aggressive resident. The Employer shall: inform Employees of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health and safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation; inform employees regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide training and supervision so that employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them; ensure that the applicable measures and procedures prescribed in the Health and Safety Act are carried out in the workplace.