Part II of the 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)