Canada Labour Code (Occupational Health and Safety)

Part II of the Code establishes provisions to prevent workplace-related accidents and injuries, including occupational diseases.
Under Part II, the employer has a general obligation to protect the health and safety of:

• employees while at work, and
• non-employees (such as contractors or members of the public) who are granted access to the workplace

It also places obligations on the following groups to help prevent occupational-related injuries and diseases:

• employees, and
• the health and safety committee, or
• the health and safety representative

List of industries that must follow Part II (Occupational Health and Safety) of the Code:

• air transportation, including airlines, airports, aerodromes and aircraft operations
• banks, including authorized foreign banks
• grain elevators, feed and seed mills, feed warehouses and grain-seed cleaning plants
• first Nations Band Councils (including certain community services on reserve)
• most federal Crown corporations, for example, Canada Post Corporation
• port services, marine shipping, ferries, tunnels, canals, bridges and pipelines (oil and gas) that cross international or provincial borders
• radio and television broadcasting
• railways that cross provincial or international borders and some short-line railways
• road transportation services, including trucks and buses, that cross provincial or international borders
• telecommunications, for example, telephone, internet, telegraph and cable systems
• uranium mining and processing and atomic energy
• any business that is vital, essential or integral to the operation of one of the above activities
  federal public service
• parliament (for example, the Senate, the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament)