Four parts include questions to evaluate compliance
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has created a checklist aiming to help employers meet health and safety requirements.
The checklist is organized into four parts, and includes questions to help employers evaluate how well they are complying with the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
“This Health and Safety Checklist will go a long way to help small business owners ensure their workplaces are safe and the people who work for them remain healthy," Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn said in a news release.
"Safe companies are successful companies, and it’s important to this government that we make resources available to help small businesses thrive."
The four parts of the checklist are:
Roles and responsibilities — to help employers and workers understand their responsibilities in the workplace.
Reporting and records management — to help employers understand reporting requirements when there is a workplace incident such as an injury.
Hazards in the workplace — ensuring procedures are in place to control hazards.
Training — ensuring all workers complete mandatory health and safety awareness training, including specific training on hazards found in the workplace.
The ministry has also created a web site for small businesses so that resources are available in one place. Small businesses, those with fewer than 50 workers, make up 95 per cent of all business in Ontario.
Small businesses employ more than 1.6 million Ontarians — almost a third of the workforce — and their lost-time injury rate is higher than the Ontario average.
The checklist is organized into four parts, and includes questions to help employers evaluate how well they are complying with the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
“This Health and Safety Checklist will go a long way to help small business owners ensure their workplaces are safe and the people who work for them remain healthy," Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn said in a news release.
"Safe companies are successful companies, and it’s important to this government that we make resources available to help small businesses thrive."
The four parts of the checklist are:
Roles and responsibilities — to help employers and workers understand their responsibilities in the workplace.
Reporting and records management — to help employers understand reporting requirements when there is a workplace incident such as an injury.
Hazards in the workplace — ensuring procedures are in place to control hazards.
Training — ensuring all workers complete mandatory health and safety awareness training, including specific training on hazards found in the workplace.
The ministry has also created a web site for small businesses so that resources are available in one place. Small businesses, those with fewer than 50 workers, make up 95 per cent of all business in Ontario.
Small businesses employ more than 1.6 million Ontarians — almost a third of the workforce — and their lost-time injury rate is higher than the Ontario average.
