Guides & Toolkits

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: EMPLOYERS Employer Under Section 25 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the Act), duties of the employer include: 1. Providing equipment, materials and protective devices (e.g., guards on machines, safety harnesses, eye wash stations, gloves, etc.) 2. Providing equipment, materials and protective devices that are maintained in good condition. 3. Ensuring equipment, materials and protective devices are used properly and in a safe manner. 4. Providing information, instruction and supervision to employees to protect the health and safety of the employee. 5. Appointing competent supervisors. 6. Providing (upon request), in a medical emergency, information in the possession of the employer, including confidential business information to a legally qualified medical practitioner, and to such other persons as may be required by law. 7. Acquainting a worker or a person in authority over an employee with any hazard in the workplace and in the handling, storage, use, disposal and transport of any article, device, equipment or a biological, chemical or physical agent. 8. Affording assistance and co-operation to the joint health and safety committee (JHSC), and a health and safety representative in the carrying out by the committee and the representative of any of their functions. (In a workplace where 20 or more workers are regularly employed) 9. Only employing a worker over the prescribed age. 10. Not knowingly permitting anyone under the prescribed age in or about the workplace. 11. Taking every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of an employee. 12. Providing to the JHSC or to a health and safety representative, the results of a report respecting occupational health and safety that is in the employer's possession and, if that report is in writing, a copy of the portions of the report that concern occupational health and safety. (In a workplace where 20 or more workers are regularly employed) WSPS.CA

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