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All employees must strive to ensure that all municipal, provincial and federal government legislation applicable to the work is adhered to.
Although it is impossible to cover all parts of applicable legislation in this manual, the following does incorporate legislative requirements wherever possible.
Applicable legislation includes:
•Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) Act and Regulations
•The Oil & Gas Conservation Act & Regulations
•Motor Vehicle Act
•Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act
•Saskatchewan Workers Compensation Act & Regulations
•Environmental Protection Acts & Regulations
Occupational Health & Safety Act
Every Employer shall:
•Ensure the health, safety, and welfare, at work, of all the employer’s workers
•Consult and cooperate with any occupational health and safety committee and the OH&S Representative at the place of employment for the purpose of resolving any health, safety and welfare concerns
•Ensure that workers are not exposed to harassment at the place of employment
•Cooperate with any other person exercising a duty imposed by this Act or Regulations
•Comply with the Act and Regulations
•Establish and maintain a written OH&S program in compliance with the regulations and in consultation with the OH&S Committee, Representative or the workers.
•Establish an OH&S Committee at worksites that employ 10 or more employees.
•Report all serious occurrences / losses to OH&S.
Every Worker shall:
•Take reasonable care to protect the HSE of him / herself and other workers
•Refrain from causing or participating in the harassment of another worker
•Cooperate with his/her employer for the purposes of protecting the HSE of him / herself and other workers,
•Cooperate with any other person exercising a duty imposed by this Act or Regulations,
•Comply with the Act and Regulations.
No Worker shall:
•Carry out any work or operate any tool / equipment if, on reasonable grounds, he/she believes there exists or that it will cause to exist an imminent danger to that worker or any other worker.
Upon being notified, the Employer shall:
•investigate and take action to eliminate the imminent danger,
•ensure that no other worker is assigned that work until the imminent danger has been eliminated,
•Not discipline the worker who refused the work.