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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulations Nunavut

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Safety First Emergency Exits

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES My Goal for Today Talk about the new Regulations that came into law in • Nunavut as of March 29, 2016 Answer questions, address concerns • (May need to follow up) Help you identify what, if any, changes you need to • make to be compliant in your work place #1 Goal is to ensure our workplaces are safe! •

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Who must comply with the Safety Act and the OHS Regulations? Easier to say who is not regulated •  Mines ( Mine Health and Safety Act and Regs )  Federal employers ( Canada Labour Code )

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Occupational Health and Safety Regulations Statute Safety Act Regulations OHS Regulations Delegated from the Statute Quasi-legislation Codes of Practice Provide practical guidelines

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES How we got here Nunavut adopted the NWT General Safety • Regulations that were in effect for 25 years (1990): – No review, no updates – Many Regulations are obsolete Areas of concern include: • – Exposure limits (Asbestos) – Omissions (Radiation) Safety Advisory Committee (2004) tasked to review • the entire document and make recommendations.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Objectives for Change Internal Responsibility System (IRS) • – Facilitate partnerships: workers, employers, suppliers, and government Harmonize with other Canadian jurisdictions • – Harassment and violence – Safe work zones Reorganize Regulations by theme • Separate quasi -legislation from the Regulations • (CSA Standards) Make applicable to the North •

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND NUNAVUT Consultation & Stakeholder Responses 48 stakeholders responded 13% Government with approximately 750 comments. 13% 66% Associations Private Common Themes 8% Unions Too prescriptive • Not prescriptive enough •

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Language Changes Clarity and Consistency • WHMIS: Old New work site hazard material workplace hazardous information system material information system

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Less Prescriptive • Current Regulations are unusually prescriptive in view of contemporary OHS approaches. – Examples: Flagger and Confined Spaces • General Safety Regulations were prescriptive and any different approaches had to be approved by the Chief Safety Officer. • OHS Regulations allows for employers to develop safe practices and implement them internally.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Sections most commented on: Consultation After Review Today Draft Supervisor Removed Certification Codes of Practices Supervisor Familiarization • Competent Language OHS Committee • Workers and clarification for Working Alone • Training of competency and RTW • Workers training Joint Occupational Health • requirements and Safety Committees OHS Reformulation of • Representatives section and Committees Requirement for • committee raised from 10 to 20 workers

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Sections most commented on: Consultation Draft After Review Today New Operations and Notification to CSO Code of Practice High Hazard Work process changed Hazard Assessment • Asbestos • High Hazard 10 to 20 Abatement Workers notice Notification templates requirement dropped available online Cold Weather Removed Thermal Conditions Code of Practice Personal Protective No significant change Ten PPE Codes of • Equipment Harmonization Practices • Clothing Exposure Plan Code of Practices • Removed “offensive” PPE • • Thermal Conditions •

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Sections most commented on: Consultation Draft After Review Today Accident Causing Added to general Reporting templates Serious Bodily Injury definitions and for notification and Dangerous sections redrafted for available online Occurrences clarity Harassment Definitions changed to CSA Standard & focus on worker safety Psychological Violence and not only human Health & Safety in the rights Workplace

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Changes NEW OTHER CHANGES • Hazard Assessment • Joint OHS Committees • Supervisor OHS education • First Aid Requirements • Robotics • Personal Protective Equipment • Explosives • Noise Control • Forestry and mill operations • Hearing Conservation • Additional protection for: • Machine Safety • Electrical workers • PME • Health care workers • Scaffolds • Firefighters • Hoists and Cranes • Rigging INTEGRATION • Entrances, Exits and Ladders • Asbestos • Excavations • Smoking in the work site • Confined Space Entry • Silica • Compressed Air • WHMIS2015 • Chemical and Biological Exposure • Fire and Explosion Hazards • Demolition Work

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Comparison General Safety Regulations OHS Regulations Provide Provide Headgear Respiratory protective device • • Eye protection Head Protection • • Flotation Devices Eye and Face Protectors • • Respiratory Protection Skin Protection • • Equipment Hand and Arm Protection • • Separate lanyard, lifeline and Life Jacket • • safety-belt or body-harness Hearing Protection • Ensure Ensure Footwear Lower Body Protection • • Clothing Footwear • • Hand Lifelines • • Personal Fall Arrest System • Full-body Harness •

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OHS Committee Part 4 OHS Committee and Representative Depending on the number of workers at a site: • – 20 or more workers are likely to be at a worksite for more than 90 days must have a committee – Fewer than 20 workers the employer designates safety representative Independent of number of workers at a site: • When directed by the Chief Safety Officer an employer to do so.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OHS Program: Large Business Part 3 General Duties • – 20 or more workers – Directed by the CSO Must have a program (sec 21(2)) : : OHS Policy Statement Training Plan (and Hazards Identification Program documentation) Emergency Procedures Investigation Procedures Statement of responsibilities Joint Occupational Health and Inspection Process Safety Committee and Procedures Worker participation Hazard Control Plan Program review and revision plan

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OHS Program: Small Business Less than 20 workers • Safety Act 4 – maintain establishment in such a manner that the Health and Safety of persons in the establishment not likely to be endangered Part 3 General Duties and Employers (Due Diligence) – Working environments that ensure, as far as reasonably possible, the health and safety of workers OHS Policy Statement Emergency Procedures Hazard Identification Program Reporting Procedures Training/Education Investigations Procedures New Worker Orientations Program review and revision

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND NUNAVUT Chief Safety Officer Approvals General Safety Regs OHS Regs "approved" means “approved” means approved by the Chief Safety (a) approved by an agency Officer or by a testing agency acceptable to the Chief acceptable to the Chief Safety Safety Officer for use under Officer; the conditions specified by the agency, or Acceptable • (b) approved conditionally or Permission • otherwise by a certificate of Authorized • the Chief Safety Officer; Directs • (c) approved by the Chief Designated • Safety Officer in a code of practice approved and issued under section 18(3) of the Act.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Codes to Date As published in the Northwest Territories Gazette and the Nunavut Gazette Asbestos Abatement Personal Protective • • Equipment (10) Confine Spaces • Return to Work • Hazard Assessment • Thermal Conditions • Joint Occupational Health • and Safety Committees Traffic Control Person • Occupational Health and Working Alone • • Safety Education – Supervisors

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Written Plans, Records and Logs

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES A full list of legislated reporting requirements is outlines under OHS Information at: http://www.wscc.nt.ca/occupational-health-safety/ohs-information/incident-reporting-requirements