Content Changes
Element 1: Management Leadership and Organizational Commitment
- Safety policy to include declaration of commitment to health and safety that addresses physical, psychological, and social well-being (1.01)
- Removal of contractors from 1.03
- Addition of understanding of OHS rights, verified by employee interviews (1.06a)
- Removal of frequency requirement for management participation in meetings (1.12)
Element 2: Hazard Assessment
- Requirement for formal hazard identification when new process introduced (2.09)
Element 3: Hazard Control
- Addition of 2 documentation questions about Violence Prevention Policy and Procedures (3.11 and 3.12) and one new question about violence prevention training (3.13)
- Addition of 2 documentation questions about Harassment Prevention Policy and Procedures (3.14, 3.15), 1 new question about harassment training (3.16) and 1 new question about review (3.17)
*NEW*
Element 4: Joint Work Site Health and Safety Committees (HSC) and Health and Safety Representatives (HS Representatives)
- Terms of reference
- Policy or procedure meeting legislated requirements
- Establishment per terms of reference
- Appointment of HS representative
- Duties for the committee or representative
- Training
- Understanding of duties and responsibilities
- Participation in health and safety activities
- Addressing employee concerns
- Employee concerns and complaints process
- Recommendations to management
- Resolving complaints
- Holding meetings per terms of reference
- Completing inspections
- Posting of names
Element 5: Qualifications, Orientation, and Training
- Removal of contractor questions
- Addition of OHS rights to orientation content (5.02)
- New question on inclusion of practical demonstration for job-specific training (5.06)
*NEW*
Element 6: Other Parties at or in the Vicinity of the Work Site
Addition of new element which includes other employers, self-employed persons, and external work site parties.
- Policy addressing protection of others
- Process for selecting and evaluating contractors
- Process for monitoring contractors
- Orientation of visitors and others
- Communication with external work site parties re: responsibilities, controls, changes
- Communication with contractors re: health and safety policy
- Information made available to external work site parties
- Process to address non-compliance
Element 7: Inspections
- Addition of all areas of operation to inspection policy (7.01)
Element 8: Emergency Response
- Addition of question re: employees understanding of their responsibilities in emergency response (8.04 – used to be embedded in another question)
Element 9: Incident Investigation
- Addition of work refusals to reporting (9.01, 9.02, 9.03) and investigations (9.05)
- Addition re: worker participation in investigations (9.08)
- Addition re: ensuring investigations completed per procedures (9.12)
Element 10: System Administration
- Addition re: health and safety information being readily available to employees (10.02)
- Addition of action plan COR maintenance option to annual evaluation question (10.05 and 10.06)
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