OHS8196-23F Assignment # 4 question

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OHS8196-23F ASSIGNMENT # 4 **Please fill in this cover page** OHS8196-23F Sec # ___ Group # ___ TEAM MEMBERS NAME STUDENT # 1
Assignment # 4 – Details **NOTE : The information contained in this case study is fictional . Conestoga Wood Fabricators (“CWF”) manufacture unique office furniture using exotic wood sourced from around the world. Management is worried about their health and safety program. Thus, they have hired you and your case study partners to help them to protect the health & safety of their workers by ensuring that they are complying with Ontario health & safety law. Your team visits CWF at 456 Big St., Somewhere, Ontario on November 27, 2023. You determine that CWF is a workplace that is subject to provincial jurisdiction for health & safety law. Next, you conduct a tour through their physical facilities to look for violations of the ACT and/or the Regulations, especially physical hazards. During the tour you note that the workplace consists of three main areas: • Office (1 boardroom; 3 office rooms for each management employee) • Production area • Warehouse area (includes materials storage, shipping/receiving, loading docks) Here is what you observed: 1. The workers use compressed air to clean away wood dust and chips. However, you observe a worker using a compressed air blow gun to blow off dust from their clothing, but the blow gun has no pressure relief openings. 2. You see a worker using a damaged step ladder in the production area. When he was done with it, the worker placed the ladder back in its storage area and went back to his regular job. 3. The hallways in the office do not have any worn out, broken or missing floor tiles. 4. In the production area you observe several tripping hazards from some usable off-cut pieces of wood and an electrical cord lying uncoiled across a walkway. 5. A table saw in the production area is having the old blade removed by a maintenance department worker and a new blade is being installed. As part of the replacement process, the saw operator and the maintenance worker have each placed a lock on the saw’s electrical disconnect to stop saw from being 2
activated. 6. CWF requires the workers to wear safety glasses with side shields everywhere in the workplace except the office or outside of the building. You see all workers are wearing safety glasses with side shields today in the production areas. 7. There are two workers who have been authorised to operate the forklift, and there are training records in the workplace to show that they had been trained 6 months ago by a third-party training company. 8. The production supervisor received a new hazardous glue product this morning from a salesman. The supervisor took the new glue out to the production area right away for the workers to try on some wood pieces. The salesman left the building without giving the supervisor a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for this product. 9. An overhead crane operator in the production area was a little rushed for time and lifted a pair of wood sheets with the overhead crane. He then delivered them to the far side of the production area by moving them over top of the workers who were sanding cabinet doors at their assigned workstations. 10. CWF’s building is quite old, and you notice what you suspect is asbestos wrapped around some transfer pipes. The CWF President confirms that it is indeed asbestos wrap, and that the previous owner of CWF’s building was a factory that had been operating there since the late 1960’s. When you ask, the President tells you that he never used the transfer pipes for anything, and that he has never conducted a worker exposure assessment. 11. The cleaning area has a small storage rack in the corner. On the rack are several spray mister bottles without labels that each contain a clear liquid. The workers tell you that the clear liquid is a solvent product called, “Varsol”. The workers also tell you that the Varsol in the spray mister bottles came from a 20 liter pail in the stockroom. 12. There is one worker who works in the paint booth. When you ask, the worker states that she has been trained about what the respirator can and cannot do, how to check it over before using it, how to keep it in good working condition, including cleaning and sanitizing it, and also how to wear it properly on her face. 3
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