Legislative Compliance

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Legislative Compliance

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.