1. SCEOT Health and safety training

2. Welcome SCEOT MEMBERS! Welcome Introductions Overview
We will be going over the requirements, expectations and your rights when it comes to your health and safety in the workplace!
Please jot down any questions you have throughout the presentation, and we will be happy to answer them during the question and answer period. Please remember, this is your learning experience and you are in a safe environment.

3. True or False questions
Health and Safety in the workplace is the responsibility of the employer. True or False?
You should receive and sign off on an entire school’s safety plan binder when you arrive in the morning for an assignment? True or False?
The right to refuse work is guaranteed under the Act. Historically, and in rare cases, this provision has been successfully put to the test by individual teachers, but never by an entire school staff acting in solidarity. True or False?

4. True or false?
Health and Safety in the workplace is the responsibility of the employer. True or False? T
TRUE…and FALSE – it’s a shared responsibility
You should receive and sign off on an entire school’s safety plan binder when you arrive in the morning for an assignment? True or False?
FALSE – the binder should contain students in the classrooms you are teaching in that assignment, as per our Collective Agreement, Article a) b) c)
The right to refuse work is guaranteed under the Act. Historically, and in rare cases, this provision has been successfully put to the test by individual teachers, but never by an entire school staff acting in solidarity. True or False?
FALSE – An entire school staff did a work refusal, right here in Simcoe County!

5. lOCAL Websites and resources
Etfo.ca
Etfo Health and Safety
ETFO MOU Task Force on Health and Safety, Report and Recommendations, September 2014
ETFO PRS Matters Bulletins
sceot.org (Duty to Report, SCDSB Forms for health and safety, newsletters, contact information, etc.)
SCDSB staff website – Departments - Corportate Risk – Health and Safety
Harassment and Objectionable Behaviour Forms

6. Information from the board
Internal Responsibility System (IRS) with emphasis on freedom from reprisal
Health and safety concern reporting
SCDSB health and safety web page information
Health and safety legislation
Injury reporting
SCDSB health and safety placemat (included in your handout package)

7. Duty to Report
The prospect of filling out a health and safety report can raise uncomfortable questions for Occasional Teachers:  Where do I find those reports at this school?  What if I’m told not to bother?  Will reporting make me look like a bad teacher?  Will the principal tell me about how the report was dealt with?
There is one important fact that puts everything into perspective:  Filling out a health and safety report isn’t a choice, it’s a duty.  Occasional Teachers, like any other worker in Ontario, have to meet the legal and policy requirements for making health and safety reports. AND, like any other supervisor in Ontario, your principal must investigate and deal with those reports.

8. Case studies
Please work on the provided case studies in groups of 6 or 7 people (sitting closest to you) on the two case studies provided to each group.
We will gather as a whole group to discuss each of the six case studies.
You have 10 minutes (5 minutes per case study).

9. Case Study #1 – Safety Plans
You arrive at a school to begin your assignment in a grade 6 class. Before being provided a key, you are asked to sign off on the entire school’s Safety Plan binder, and note that there is only one student with a Plan in your grade 6 class, and it reads as outdated and vague.
What’s problematic about this situation?
Should you sign off?
To whom should you address any questions or concerns?
If a satisfactory remedy does not occur, what are your options?

10. Case Study #2 – Work Refusal
You are greeted by the site steward upon arrival for your assignment. The steward informs you that you will be supplying that day for a teacher engaged in a work refusal.
Is this a plausible situation?
How do you react?
How should you react?
Legally, what are your options?

11. Case Study #3 – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
You accept an assignment knowing that Personal Protective Equipment will be provided. The equipment you are required to wear turns out to be ill fitting and uncomfortable. You wear it anyway.
Do have any recourse in this situation?
What are the broader implications of accepting this assignment and wearing the equipment?
From a legal standpoint, if you are physically assaulted while fulfilling your duties, is there any remedy available to you?

12. Case Study #4 – Aggressive Incident (A.I.) Reporting
In the course of a daily assignment, you overhear a student denigrating the homeroom teacher for whom you are filling in. Comments range from inappropriate language around physical appearance to actual threats of physical harm. Despite verbal warnings from you, the behaviour persists. You decide to fill out an Aggressive Incident Form, but are dissuaded from doing so by the Vice-Principal, who promises to deal with the student.
Has something similar ever happened to you?
Does this seem like a reasonable response to the situation?
Is this the best resolution under the circumstances?
Is there anything wrong with filling out an A.I. form anyway?

13. Case Study #5 – Concern Reporting
While on yard duty in the course of a daily assignment you notice a steel drainage grate sticking up a good couple of inches above the pavement in the play area that you are monitoring. Another teacher says it’s been that way for years.
Should this be the end of the matter?
What are your options if you’d like to see the matter addressed?
For whom is this a potential hazard?
Should this grate result in serious injury, who is responsible/liable?
What other hazards relating to your surroundings in and outside the school building might you confront on a daily basis?

14. Case Study #6 – Keys
When signing in at the office to begin your assignment, you are told that there are not any spare keys available and that you must ask another teacher or the custodian whenever you see fit to lock/unlock the classroom.
Is this workable?
Is it acceptable?
What should you do?
Why is this a bigger issue than it seems?

15. SAFETY PLANS
Safety Plans are a key component to students and classrooms in every school.
Read them, know them, understand them and make sure they work for both your safety and that of the student.
ETFO PRS Matters on The Student Safety Plans
Guidelines for creating a new safety plan (this can be used to help you know what should be included in safety plans and is included in your handout package).
Remember, our Collective Agreement includes language surrounding access to safety plans. Know your rights and advocate for proper access at all schools with a gentle reminder of our collective agreement (Article 19.06)

16. Work Refusals
As an OT you have the right to refuse work you deem unsafe.
If you are called to replace a teacher who is absent due to a work refusal, you must be informed of the reason for the work refusal in the presence of a member of your executive and/or a member of the JHSC. After this has been done, you can make an informed choice as to whether to accept the assignment.
Should you feel the need to refuse work, fill out form HS (included in your handout package)
AND
Always contact your union president if you feel compelled to refuse work.

17. Aggressive Incident Reporting
To be completed by the Teacher when they believe they have been the victim of an aggressive act or an aggressive act not directed at them but has the potential to injure them (teacher decides).
Form is completed electronically and sent to the Principal and they MUST have a meeting (within 3 days) with the member to review the incident. If meeting does not occur within 3 days the principal and copy Amy Chevis, SCEOT President.
During this meeting the incident is discussed and something must change to mitigate the chance of the event occurring again.
Once the meeting is over and the form is completed it is sent to the Board and Amy has access to them.
Amy may attend the meeting with you if you do not feel comfortable meeting with your administrator.

18. Concern reporting
This form is to report a potential or existing hazard which you believe presents a risk to health and safety of individuals in your workplace. Please submit to your principal or supervisor and keep a copy for your records. Any hazard which is identified as immediately dangerous to life or health must be brought to the Principal/Supervisor’s attention without delay and all steps reasonable to control the hazard must be taken immediately.
Procedure HS Appendix A
Part of H and S Memo found on SCSDB staff website – Departments – Corporate Risk – Health and Safety – Health and Safety Procedures Manual
separated by section – Section 2 is Safety Concern Reporting

19. Violent incident form
To be completed when a weapon was used or if the attack was motivated by race, religion or sexual orientation.
Form is completed and submitted to the principal (pen and paper)
Police must be contacted when the form is submitted and a reference number is documented.
There is no mandatory meeting but members are encouraged to follow up to see what the police have said.

20. Safe schools form Safe schools forms are a Ministry tracking document.
Included in your package you receive today.
They are completed to document or track student on student aggression or violence.
Forms are supposed to go into the OSR and follow the student.

21. KEYS, FOBS and access
Keys are to be provided to ALL members for ALL assignments. If you do not receive keys upon arrival at a school, please contact Amy Chevis immediately and I will ensure the school has more cut.
All members have their own FOB for access to schools and they are activated daily based on accepted SCARRI assignments.
Portables have student FOBS for access to schools during the day. If you do not have a FOB for student use, please contact Amy Chevis immediately and I will ensure more are made for the school and student use. Do not share your FOB.
All members have individual access to all computers in the school – if you don’t know your access information, please contact the IT helpdesk.
All information on FOBS is sent to your board address.

22. Question and answer session
We will be creating a FAQ section in this presentation that includes questions that come up today. This will be sent to all members and posted on our website.
FAQs brought up June 9th, 2017.
If you hurt your foot wearing open toed shoes, would you be covered through WSIB?
Yes, you would as the board has not stipulated anything otherwise and you are covered.

23. CONTACTS SCEOT office: Amy Chevis (705) 725-0316 sceotnews@gmail.com
ETFO – – ask to speak with the PRS staff officer on duty
Police or Emergency Services *
If you are facing immediate danger or an emergency, don’t ever hesitate to call 911.

24. RESOURCES and Regulations
ETFO conferences and workshops – check out etfo.ca for details
Occupational Health and Safety Act and FAQ’s
Education Act
Provincial Model for a Local Police/School Board Protocol
Ministry of Labour online resources, including Workplace Violence and Harassment: Understanding the Law
Compassion Fatigue Workshops (through SCDSB and/or SCEOT)