In our Planning 10 course, before we get to anything else, we’ve been looking at safety in the workplace. This is very important for anyone who has a job, or is looking to get one (me).

We first started out with a short quiz on our  work experience we already have, but since I haven’t had any work experience, I didn’t have to answer many of the questions.

In my near future, I think I’d like to be a ski instructor, hockey referee, or just work at a local store.

The next item on the to-do list is to watch a video about real people who were injured on their job, and what their life is like now. We watched this because it really shows us how our life could change in an instant if we don’t know what we are doing while working.

This video was very realistic in the fact that we do need to be careful, and to know our rights as a worker to refuse anything we don’t feel safe doing.

Another small activity we did to find out the rules and regulations between the employer and the employee, was to search the regulation!  In this task we had to look up different rules in this worksafe BC website that will help us find the answer to the questions. These questions were about different situations that could happen while you’re working, and what you can do about it.

This helped me because I know now that I don’t have to anything I feel is unsafe when I get a job, and that I have rights as a worker, wherever I work.

To finish off this assignment, we needed to create a visual that would summarize what we just learned. And this is what I created:

I created this to show what really could end up happening if you’re not careful, and to show the importance of knowing that you can say no to working something unsafe.

Thats all for this unit so far,

 

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