Week 12

• Police can drive any vehicle without a license for it
• Class F includes a regular bus with a maximum capacity of 24 passenger capacity and it also includes ambulances
• Highway Traffic Act describes a bus as a motor vehicle designed to carry 10 or more passengers and is used for transportation
• Emergency Response vehicle: a vehicle operated by an ambulance service that is not an ambulance; examples are ERUs, FRUs, and PRUs
• Emergency vehicle refers to an ambulance, fire department vehicle, police department vehicle and utility emergency vehicle
• Only police can have forward facing blue and red lights
• Only an ambulance, fire, police, public utility emergency vehicle and a school bus can have forward- flashing red rights
• Green lights are for volunteer responder and firefighters
• Only emergency vehicles can use sirens
• Its mandatory to complete an inspection report for an ambulance at the start of your shift
• No persons should use cell phones or hand-held devices while driving except paramedics, firefighters and police. One exception to this rule is if 911 is being called
• Firefighters can exceed the speed limit to get to a fire but not returning from a call
• Firetrucks, ambulances and police cars with lights and sirens can go thru an intersection on a red only after stopping and when it is safe to do so
• The process of running a red is stopping at an intersection, going to the middle and then proceeding
• Stay under 20 km/h on a red light when passing thru
• When approaching a stopped emergency vehicle: you must slow down and proceed with caution. You should also move over to the next lane if possible. First offence to this is a $400 to $2000 fine and 3 demerit points. Next offence (within 5 years) is $1000 to $4000 and possible jail time for up to 6 months and suspension of license for up to 2 years
• Paramedics can't go into closed highways unless there is a call there
• Paramedics must stop for a school bus with the stop arm out
• The Ontario health and safety act is divided into 10 sections and was made in 1979
• OHSA includes 32 regulations with an internal responsibility system. It was made to protect workers
• The OHSA outlines the legal duties of workplace parties and sets out penalties for non-compliance
• Owner is defined as trustee, receiver, mortgagee or in possession of a workplace
• An employer has 1 or more worker and they contract their own work of services; essentially if you ask someone to chop down a tree and the workers don't wear PPE, you could be liable as you're an employer
• Lead hands: not a supervisor but in charge of other workers
• An example of a lead hand is your preceptor on rideouts
• Worker definition can still apply to students on ride outs; there's a clause in the OHSA act
• A worker is a person who is paid to perform or supply services for compensation
• Industrial establishment is an office, building, shop or any land used for commercial purposes.
• Workplace violence doesn't just apply in the workplace; if domestic abuse is reported, the workplace may have to intervene
• Exclusions and limitations to refusing unsafe work: can't refuse work if someone's life is in danger if you don't do work or if that work is what's expected of your actual job
• For OHSA, you're guilty until proven innocent
• OHSA violations results in fines that are up to $25000 or a year in jail or both
• MOL Inspectors can issue orders and have the force of law under section 57
• OHSA violation charges can laid up to 1 year after violation and can be charged retrospectively as well
• Inspectors have 3 orders: A stop work order, forthwith order and time compliant order
• Inspectors can issue tickets under the provincial offences act
• Stop work order: means to stop work immediately and workplace is shut down
• Forthwith order: must immediately comply to suggestion
• Provincial set fines for not wearing PPE: $195 for each and a 30% victim's services charge to each set fine
• Critical injuries are injuries of a serious nature that: places life in jeopardy, produces unconsciousness, results in substantial loss of blood, involves fracture of leg/arm but not finger/toe, involves amputation of leg, arm, hand, foot but not finger/toe, causes burns to major portion of body and causes loss of sight in an eye