Infectious Diseases Sample Clauses

Infectious Diseases. The Employer and the Union desire to arrest the spread of infectious diseases in the nursing home. To achieve this objective, the Joint Health and Safety Committee may review and offer input into infection control programs and protocols including surveillance, outbreak control, isolation, precautions, worker education and training, and personal protective equipment. The Employer will provide training and ongoing education in communicable disease recognition, use of personal protective equipment, decontamination of equipment, and disposal of hazardous waste.

Infectious Diseases. The Employer and the Union desire to arrest the spread of infectious diseases in the Home. To achieve this objective, the Joint Health and Safety Committee may review and offer input into infection control programs and protocols including surveillance, outbreak control, isolation, precautions, worker education and training, and personal protective equipment. The Employer will provide training and ongoing education in communicable disease recognition, use of personal protective equipment, decontamination of equipment, and disposal of hazardous waste.

Infectious Diseases. The Employer and the Union desire to arrest the spread of infectious diseases in the nursing home. To achieve this objective, the Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee may review and offer input into infection control programs and protocols including surveillance, outbreak control, isolation, precautions, worker education and training, and personal protective equipment. The Employer will provide training and ongoing education in communicable disease recognition, use of personal protective equipment, decontamination of equipment, and disposal of hazardous waste. Each year on April at am, one minute of silence shall be observed in memory of workers killed or injured on the job. The Employer will use its best efforts to record and report all needlesticks and sharps incidents. The parties agree that if incidents in the workplace involving aggressive resident and/or family 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. It is understood that such resident occurrences will be reviewed at the Resident Care Conference. The Joint Health and Safety Committee will discuss and shall recommend, where appropriate, appropriate measures to promote health and safety in workplaces, including, but not limited to: Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Needle Stick Injury Prevention Personal Protective Equipment Training designed to ensure competency under the Act for those persons with supervisory responsibilities The Employer and the Union are committed to providing a positive environment for staff. All individuals have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in an atmosphere which promotes respectful interactions and is free from discrimination, harassment and aggression. Where a bargaining unit member complains of harassment by another bargaining unit member, she shall bring such complaint to the attention of the Employer and the Union. The Employer and the Union will then initiate a complete and joint investigation of the complaint and report the findings back to the complainant who shall be accompanied by a Xxxxxxx. If the complaint directly or indirectly involves the complainant’s supervisor or a Xxxxxxx she may contact an alternate person in management or the Union to ensure that the complaint is handled in a...

Infectious Diseases. BCPSS shall adhere to OSHA and MOSH standards, and to all accepted public health protocols, to assure adequate work place protection for personnel potentially exposed to infectious diseases such as, but not limited to, tuberculosis, hepatitis, whooping cough (pertussis), meningitis, ringworm, conjunctivitis, and HIV/AIDS.

Infectious Diseases. The Employer shall provide the strongest feasible protection to employees from occupational transmission of bloodborne and airborne infectious diseases, including but not limited to Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, through the use of engineering controls, work practice controls, personal protective equipment, training and education and the development of a comprehensive bloodborne and airborne infectious disease program.

Infectious Diseases. Upon report by a Registered Medical Practitioner that by reason of contact with a person suffering from an infectious disease and through the operation of restrictions imposed by law in respect of such disease, an Employee is unable to attend work, the Employer may grant the Employee special leave of absence with pay. The period of leave must not be for any period beyond the earliest date at which it would be practicable for the Employee to return to work having regard to the restrictions imposed by law.

Infectious Diseases. Both Parties agree that in the event of the enactment of any government regulations, executive orders, policies, rules and/or recommendations, including, but not limited to, those relating to the prevent the spread of communicable and/or infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and/or Coronavirus, and any mitigation thereof, which, in the sole and exclusive discretion of Copernicus, materially affect and/or impact the profitability of the Event and/or any Performance, and/or it becomes impractical and/or impossible for Xxxxxxxxxx to perform its obligations under the Agreement, Xxxxxxxxxx shall be entitled to cancel the Agreement, the Event and all Performances without any further obligation to perform under this Agreement. Also, Xxxxxxxxxx disclaims, and the Vendor hereby releases Xxxxxxxxxx from any and all liability relating to any person who has entered the Premises for any reason relating to Vendor’s use of the Premises, the Event, and/or any Performance (i) being exposed to and/or becoming effected with COVID-19 and/or the Coronavirus while on the Premises.

Infectious Diseases. Employees will be allowed to take work time to receive testing and/or inoculations for Tuberculosis, hepatitis or other communicable diseases, provided there is a verifiable business reason for receiving inoculations.

Infectious Diseases. The Joint Health and Safety Committee may review and offer input into infection control programs and protocols including surveillance, outbreak control, isolation, precautions, worker education and training, and personal protective equipment. The Employer will provide training and ongoing education in communicable disease recognition, use of personal protective equipment, decontamination of equipment, and disposal of hazardous waste. The Employer and Employees will use its best efforts to record and report all needlesticks and sharps incidents.

Infectious Diseases a) The employer shall take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker. [Occupational Health and Safety Act, s. 25 (2) (h)]. b) When faced with occupational health and safety decisions, the Hospital will not await full scientific or absolute certainty before taking reasonable action(s) including but not limited to, providing readily accessible personal protective equipment that reduces risk and protects employees. c) Hospitals will ensure adequate stocks of the N95 respirator or equivalent or better (or such other personal protective equipment as the parties may in writing agree) to be made available to bargaining unit members at short notice in the event that there are reasonable indications of the emergence of a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the community served by the Hospital. d) A worker who is required by their employer to wear or use any protective clothing, equipment or device shall be instructed and trained in its care, use and limitations before wearing or using it for the first time and at regular intervals thereafter and the worker shall participate in such instruction and training. Personal protective equipment that is to be provided, worn or used shall, be properly used and maintained, be a proper fit, be inspected for damage or deterioration and be stored in a convenient, clean and sanitary location when not in use. [O. Reg. 67/93 –