FYI

Workplace Hazards

When you are at work, you have the responsibility to report workplace hazards.

If you are concerned that the normal course of your duties will put you at risk of physical or psychological injury, and report the hazard to your supervisor, your supervisor has a responsibility to remove the hazard or develop an effective plan to keep you safe.

You cannot face discipline due to reporting a hazard.

Your employer cannot simply replace you with a different employee.

If your employer doesn’t resolve the hazard, you have the right to refuse the unsafe work.

Workplace Hazards Recognized by WorkSafe

Rights and Responsibilities of Employers, Supervisors and Workers

Refusing Unsafe Work

How Can We Honour Our Union Family Members?

Each of us has a role in safeguarding our colleagues. This includes their work and the environment in which they work.

A fundamental part of caring about and for others is seeing each person as an individual within a group, site or union and accepting that each person’s story, their lived experience differs from yours.

Worried about getting caught up in something? Feeling uncertain about something you saw, heard or feel? We all have a part in keeping ourselves, our colleagues, our students and school communities safe. It’s not about blame! It is about problem solving and lending a hand.

If you know of a member that is carrying a lot and aren’t sure what the Union can do, please reach out or leave them a note to reach out.  There are services and offerings we may be able to help with.

“if you are dysregulated [overwhelmed, tired, tense …] even good advice feels like criticism”

– Mastin Kipp