{"id":16931,"date":"2017-07-28T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/?post_type=cu-kb-faqs&#038;p=16931"},"modified":"2024-07-28T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T20:58:04","slug":"how-do-i-report-a-hazard-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"cu_description","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/description\/how-do-i-report-a-hazard-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I report a hazard in the workplace?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 id=\"\" class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n\n    <\/header>\n\n<p>It is the worker&#8217;s responsibility to report any workplace hazards to their immediate supervisors. A hazard is defined as any practice, behaviour, condition, thing, situation, or a combination of these things, having the potential to cause injury or illness to a person or damage to property or equipment. For more information, please consult Carleton&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/Hazard-Reporting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hazard Reporting Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[117],"class_list":["post-16931","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry","cu_description_type-workplace-injury"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_description"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/16931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_description_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description_type?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}