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Canada Labour Code (Occupational Health and Safety)

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)

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