Overview
It is good for workers and also good for business to have safety as your priority. Taking time and taking care in the short term saves time and protects your people in the long term. It is important to train your employees to take care of themselves and each other. It is also important for management to demonstrate leadership as well as cooperation in seeking to constantly improve your workplace’s safe and healthy environment.
At the end of the unit, you will be able to:
- Assess the status of your own internal responsibility system (“IRS”)
- Make and keep up-to-date, effective and “living” health and safety policies and procedures for your workplace
- Understand the importance of enforcing safe work practices
- Identify duties and responsibilities of workplace participants
- Focus on 4-c’s: commitment, compliance, communication and co-operation
Author Overview
Jamie Knight is a partner at Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP, a firm specializing in the representation of management in all areas of Labour Relations and Employment law. Jamie’s practice includes acting as spokesperson at collective bargaining negotiations. Jamie has handled hundreds of arbitration cases and he frequently guides employers through the process of responding to union organizing campaigns.
Jamie also represents both employers and senior executives who require advice at the outset of employment, during employment, or particularly at the end of employment. This includes dealing with fiduciary issues and covenants designed to restrict future competition by a departing employee. Jamie is a teacher and trainer, and advocates sound human resources practices in both union and non-union workplaces. His clients are in industries as diverse as manufacturing, technology, financial services, entertainment and construction. Jamie is an experienced litigator, in the courts, at arbitration, and before administrative tribunals, including federal and provincial labour boards. Jamie is a 1983 graduate of The University of Toronto Law School. He spent 3 undergraduate years at Le College Militaire Royal De St. Jean, Quebec, and for several years Jamie was a commissioned officer in Canada’s Naval Reserve.
Jamie is a member of the Labour Relations, Administrative Law and Workers’ Compensation Sections of the Ontario Bar Association. He is an active participant in HRPAO and has spent the past few years serving on the Complaints and Investigation Committee.
Jamie has authored or co-authored over a dozen publications for use by human resource professionals and lawyers on labour relations, health and safety, human rights, and wrongful dismissal. He has taught supervisors and Human Resources professionals at the University of Guelph for 15 years, as part of the HRPAO certification program. Jamie is a frequent speaker at conferences for lawyers, executives, managers and Human Resources professionals.
