Policy Statements > Fitness For Duty / Work

Power Tech Industries is committed to providing a safe, healthy, respectful and productive workplace. As an employee of Power Tech Industries, you contribute to this goal by ensuring that you are fit for work and bringing forward any circumstances or conditions which reasonably indicate that you or another employee may not be fit to carry out the duties and responsibilities of your/their role.

Employees are considered fit for work when they are physically and mentally able to perform their assigned tasks in a manner that does not compromise workplace safety, quality, or productivity. Our goal in outlining this policy is to increase our collective awareness of the many factors that may affect fitness for work and to support all Power Tech Industries’s employees in resolving any underlying issues. These may include a variety of factors that could have a different impact on different employees:

•Injury or illness (work or non‐work related)

•Alcohol (as well as “hangover” effects)

•Drug(s): Any substance which has the potential to compromise an employee’s motor or cognitive skills (as well as “hangover” effects) including the categories defined below:

oIllicit Drug: Any drug or substance which is not legally obtainable and whose use, sale, possession, purchase or transfer is restricted or prohibited by law (e.g. street drugs such as cocaine and heroin);

oMedication: Any drug which is legally obtainable, either over‐the‐counter or through a doctor’s prescription (e.g. cold/flu medication and anti‐depressants);

oMood Altering Substance: Any product that is legally or illegally used, resulting in

ocognitive or physical limitations that negatively impact performance on the job (e.g., marijuana and morphine).

•Personal factors (e.g. psychological, psychiatric issues, family issues or illnesses)

•Insufficient sleep / fatigue

•Excessive work hours

•Secondary employment or volunteer activities

•Recreational activities and sport

•General health and fitness

It is important that, as an employee of Power Tech Industries, you know that you have an obligation to ensure you are fit for work and to inform Senior Management or your foreman in any case where you are/may not be fit for work.