Category » Occupational Health and Safety Act

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1. Occupational Health and Safety Act Amendments
   The Occupational Health and Safety Act has had several amendments. The amendments have dealt wit several items ranging from changing the Department's name to updating the appeal process for Discriminatory Action Complaints as well incorporating recent changes to the OHS Appeal Panel now being co ...
2. Workplace Safety and Your Employees: New Businesses in Nova Scotia
   As a new business leader you can help change workplace safety attitudes and ensure that the human and economic toll of injuries is reduced year over year; occupational health and safety is more than laws and regulations it is also the commitment and leadership of people such as yourself. The In ...
3. Home Owners and OHS Act (Infosheet A-8)
   As a home owner what duties do you have under the OHS Act? While a home owner is not specifically defined under the Act, Section 19 deals with a property owner's precautions and duties when work is occuring on their property. Essentially when a home owner hires someone or a business to work on t ...
4. Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee & Representatives (Infosheet A-2)
   Does my business require a Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee or Health or Safety Representative? A Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee is required in workplaces with 20 or more employees who work for more than four weeks in a row. A Health and Safety Representative is r ...
5. Duty to Disclose
   When an accident occurs in the workplace the accident must be reported to the Occupational Health and Safety Division of the Department of Labour and Advanced Education, at which time an Officer will perform an inspection of the worksite. Everyone in a workplace is responsible for occupational ...
6. Due Diligence and OHS
   Due diligence is a term that is used in a number of different contexts. It may be used in a financial context, like the research done in preparation for a business transaction, or it may be used in an occupational health and safety context. In the latter case it is generally understood to mean ...
7. Requirements for Business (under 5 employees)
   How does the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulation affect you? Generally, all employers are expected to apply the Act and the appropriate regulations to their workplace and to make their employees familiar with the requirements and responsibilities. The requirements under the Act ar ...
8. Requirements for Business (5 to 19 employees inclusive)
   How does the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulation affect you? Generally, all employers are expected to apply the Act and the appropriate regulations to their workplace and to make their employees familiar with the requirements and responsibilities. The requirements under the Act ar ...
9. Requirements for Business (20 or more employees)
   How does the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations affect you? Generally, all employers are expected to apply the Act and the appropriate regulations to their workplace and to make their employees familiar with the requirements and responsibilities. The requirements under the Act a ...
10. Discriminatory Action (Definition)
    "Discriminatory action" Discriminatory action is defined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act as: "an action that adversely affects an employee with respect to terms or conditions of employment or any opportunity for employment or promotion and includes dismissal, layoff, suspension, d ...
11. Prohibition against discriminatory action
    Prohibition of "discriminatory action" Discriminatory Action means an action that adversely affects an employee with respect to terms or conditions of employment or any opportunity for employment or promotion and includes dismissal, layoff, suspension, demotion, transfer of job or location, c ...
12. Right to Complain or Grieve
    Right to make complaint or file grievance: Section 46 of The Occupational Health and Safety Act includes provisions for employee complaints and grievances in relation to Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committees, Health and Safety Representatives, those employees who have rightly exerci ...
13. Work Refusal
    If you have reasonable grounds to believe that your work is unhealthy or dangerous to yourself or anyone else at your workplace you may exercise your Right to Refuse Work. What does "reasonable grounds to believe" mean? Having "reasonable grounds to believe" means that you have an honest be ...
14. Health and Safety Policy
    The Occupational Health and Safety Act requires everyone who regularly employs 5 or more persons to have a Health and Safety Policy. This policy is generally found in the form of a one page document and contains the following elements: Reasons for the employer's commitment to health and safe ...
15. Right to Refuse (Info Sheet - Employers)
    The Right to Refuse: Employers (Info sheet A-10) If an employee has reasonable grounds to believe that their work is unhealthy or dangerous to themselves or anyone else at their workplace they may exercise their right to refuse work. What does “reasonable grounds to believe” mean? ...
16. Right to Refuse - (Info Sheet - Employee)
    Right to Refuse: Employees (Info Sheet A9) If you have reasonable grounds to believe that your work is unhealthy or dangerous to yourself or anyone else at your workplace you may exercise your right to refuse work. What does “reasonable grounds to believe” mean? Having “reason ...
17. Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee
    As noted in the article on the Internal Responsibility System, one of the components of the Internal Responsibility System is that all workplace parties have a shared responsibility, based on their roles, and how much control they have in ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. One of the ways ...
18. Construction/Project Joint Occcupational Health and Safety Committee
    The Act requires the establishment of a Joint Occupational Health and Safety (JOHS) Committee whenever there are 20 or more persons regularly employed at a work-site or by order of the OHS Executive Director. Sometimes these are single-employer work-sites (all employees are employed by one empl ...
19. Health and Safety Representative
    As noted in the article on the Internal Responsibility System, one of the components of this principle is that the workplace parties all have a shared responsibility, based on their roles and how much control they have, in ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. One of the ways the Act ensures ...