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Study Sheet

Transferable Skills

  • A skill that can be used in multiple different occupations
  • A transferable skill is one that you can take with you - portable skill
  • You learn transferable skill through your interactions & expereices with others, school voluteering, home, jobs
  • Transferable skills are organized into 3 sub-sets
    • Working with people
    • Working with things
    • information & data
  • A gransferable skill can give you an edge above others because employers will consider you a better candidate
  • Makes you a more efficient worker

Leadership

  • A good leader:
  • listens to ideas of others
  • encourages others to participate
  • take charge, not take control
  • Life people up they dont let them down
  • Take responsibilities for mistakes and not blame others
  • Lead through respect not through fear
  • Solve conflicts and direct their group
  • Give feedback that is clear and specific

Communication Skills

  • Skills that are needed for writing, speaking to and interaction with others effectively
  • Communication can be verbal (ex. speaking singing) and non-verbal (ex. written, body language, facial expression)
  • One way communication is one main speaker, people listen
  • Two way communication is back and forth interaction, building on to the points, sustsaining the conversation

Communication Process

Process Description
Sender Person delivering informationto the reciever or receivers
Receiver The receiver is the person that decodes and interprets the message
Feedback Response given to reciever
Interference Anything that impedes the communication

How To Receive A Message

  • Listen \(`\rightarrow`\) Analyze \(`\rightarrow`\) Check
  • Barrier to communication: something that prevents the receiver to understand the message
  • Possible Barriers
    • Physical, hearing impaired
    • Language
    • Noise
    • Distance, proximity
    • Medium
    • Intereptions
  • Active Listening Active engagement, shows that you are listening, gives alot of feedback

Stress Management

  • Stress: The imbalance between demands and resources. When pressure exceeds ones perceived ability to cope.
  • Stress Management Skills: help to balance yourself so that the level of stress is at a manageable level
  • Possible Stressors
    • School
    • Relationships
    • Job/responsibilities
    • Everything, enviornment
  • Peer pressure: expectations of yourself and others that you dont feel that you can keep up with them
    • Do well in school, drugs etc
  • Eustress: positive, productive stresss to help you get things done. Motivates you to do better
    • Wedding day, excitied, ready to go to colleges, anxiety, scary book/movie
  • Indentify your stressors!
    • Avoid the stressors
    • Alter the stressors
    • Accept the stressors
    • Adapt the stressors

Organization

  • State of being structured and arranged in an orderly way
  • Advantages of Organization
    • reduces stress/workload
    • increases efficiency
    • maintains order and convenience
  • Effective organizational skills are
    • learned, practiced, and updated constantly (ex: learning to prioritize urgency vs importance in order to better manage time)

Negotiation

  • Negotiation is a discussion that is aimed at reaching a argreement
  • Sometimes negotiation requires a third party called a mediator
  • Mediator: a neutral third party
  • The mediator will try to help the two parties settle an agreement. The mediataor must educate themselves about both parties and what they are trying to achieve and what they will settle for in order to help them come to a resolution
  • Possible outcomes
    • One team wins, both team wins, one team loses

Teamwork

  • Ability to work, cooperate, and get along with other people in order to attain a common goal

Workplace Hazards

  • Hazard: Something that does harm to you or makes you ill |Type of Hazard|Examples| |:————-|:——-| |Physical|- electricity
    - constant loud noise
    - liquid/spills
    -unguarded moving machinary| |Biological|- blood or bodily fluids
    - fungi
    - bacteria & virius
    - plants| |Chemical|- Liquids eg. paints, acids
    - Vapours + fumes eg. welding fumes
    - gases eg. acetlyene, propane, carbon monoxide
    - flammable materials eg. gasoline| |Ergonomic|- poor lighting
    - poor workstation or chairs
    - poor posture
    - constant lifting|

Occupational Health and Safety Act Rights

  • Right To Know
    • employer must tell you about all hazards at your job
  • Right To Participate
    • take part in keeping the workplace safe
  • Right To Refuse
    • you may refuse work that is unsafe/endangering

Responsiblities For A Safe Enviornment

  • Ensure that required training is given to you
  • you are provided with equipment & training on how to use it properly
  • make you & supervisors aware of all possible hazards

3 Types Of General Safety Traing

  • General workplace safety training/information
  • specific safety training
  • WHMIS

Reasons To Report Injury Right Away

  • correct medical treatment can be received immediately
  • correct amount of compensation recieved
  • cause of the injury can be investigated & prevented from happening again
  • PPE: - personal protection equipment

ESA

  • Purpose of The Employment Standarads Act 2000 (ESA)
    • Sets out the rights & responsiblities of both employers & employers in ontario workplaces
  • Employment Standards Act 2000
    • An act that provides the minimum standards for most employers working in ontario
  • A 30 min break must be offered per 5 hours of work
  • When young workers are called in to work, and they work more than 3hrs/day normally, they will get paid the 3hrs, even if they didnt do the work for 3hrs because they are called in
  • Young workers are eligible for overtime if they work over 44hrs a week, which they get 1.5 their normal pay
  • Young workers are entitled to be paid for public holidays
  • When an employee works on a public holiday, they either get 1.5x their pay or alternative day off
  • Young workers who are part-time employess are covered by the ESA
  • The ESA covers young workers, the have the same rights as other employees in ontario workplaces under the ESA (certain jobs can be exempted)
  • An employee cannot deduct the cost of a uniform or other items from an employees pay, unless agreed in written form
  • An employee cannot withhold, make dudction from or require an employee to turn over their tips and other gratuties unless following a court order or there is a tip pool arrangement
  • To see if getting paid correctly, keep a record of hours worked
  • Young workers are only entitled to vacation pay after 12 months of employment
  • Young workers working in retial are allowed to refuse to work on public holidays or sundays, unless agreed upon at time of hire, basicalyl having the option to work
    • Depends on certain services (eg. restaurants), will be informed upon hiring
  • Employers have to tell young workers in advance if they are going to end their employement
  • Young workers can file through ministry of labour to get money owed by the employer
  • Call the ESA for more info
  • Workers that are not covered by the Employment Standards Act: bank tellers
  • General hourly minimum wage: $14
    • 3 exceptions
    1. Firefighters
    2. Actors
    3. Student ($13.5)
  • 3 Basic Rights
  1. Right to refuse unsafe work.
  2. Right to participate in the workplace health and safety activities through the Health and Safety Committee (HSC) or as a worker health and safety representative.
  3. Right to know, or the right to be informed about, actual and potential dangers in the workplace.

Minimum Age

Job Minimum Age
Factory Worker 15
Window Cleaner 18
Underground Miner 18
Construction Worker 16
Logger 16

Jobs That Work During Holidays

  1. Hotel motels, tourist resorts
  2. restaurants, and tavers
  3. hosipital and nursing homes
  4. continuous operations
  • They should be payed a public holiday pay + premium pay for each hours worked