What are the workplace rights and responsibilities of an employee?

What are the workplace rights and responsibilities of an employee?

Read the workplace safety and health poster at the jobsite. Comply with all applicable OSHA and Maine safety standards. Follow all lawful employer safety and health rules and regulations, and wear or use required protective equipment while working. Report hazardous conditions to the employer.

What are the 3 basic rights of every employee in the workplace?

The Occupational Health and Safety Act entitles all employees to three fundamental rights:

• The right to know about health and safety matters.
• The right to participate in decisions that could affect their health and safety.
• The right to refuse work that could affect their health and safety and that of others.

What are the basic rights of an employee in the workplace?

Workers’ rights encompass a large array of human rights from the right to decent work and freedom of association to equal opportunity and protection against discrimination. Specific rights related to the workplace include health and safety in the workplace and the right to privacy at work, amongst many others.

What are right and responsibilities?

A right is a choice to make your own opinion and entitlement to things such as education, religion and freedom of speech. Responsibilities are duties or something an individual should do such as following the law and rules.

What are the responsibilities of employees?

Duties of Employees

• take reasonable care for their own health and safety.
• take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may affected by their acts or omissions.
• cooperate with anything the employer does to comply with OHS requirements.

What are the responsibilities of an employer?

Duties of employers

• make sure that work areas, machinery and equipment are kept in a safe condition.
• organise ways of working safely.
• provide information, instruction, training and supervision of employees so they can work safely.
• make sure that employees are aware of potential hazards.

What are examples of rights and responsibilities?

Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens under the Constitution

• Right to life;
• The right to equality, equal protection and equal benefit in law;
• Human dignity;
• Freedom and security;
• Protection from slavery, servitude & forced labour;
• Freedom of conscience, religion, belief and opinion;
• Freedom of expression;

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