Regulations

setting out the health and safety standards to be established at workplaces or classes of workplaces;

designating an employment as an occupation;

respecting the preparation, content and implementation of an occupational health and safety program and an occupational health and safety policy;

respecting the working environment, workplace and safety of workers as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council considers necessary for the protection of the life and health of workers employed in or about a mine;

defining "mine ";

providing for the adoption and implementation of nationally uniform standards respecting the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System regulated under the Hazardous Products Act ( Canada ), and other applicable federal legislation;

[Rep. by 1998 c19 s20]

establishing conditions as to the design, construction and use of a plant or undertaking in order to protect the health and safety of workers;

prescribing minimum standards of the facilities for the feeding, rest, hygiene and sanitary needs of workers;

prohibiting or controlling the manufacture, supply or use of a plant, equipment or machinery;

prohibiting or controlling the manufacture, supply, storage, handling or use of a substance or material in order to protect the health and safety of workers;

imposing requirements with respect to the testing, labelling or examination of a substance or material that may affect the health and safety of workers;

controlling or prohibiting the employment in specified circumstances of a person or class of persons where it is necessary to protect their health and safety;

restricting the performance of certain tasks to persons having certain qualifications;

requiring the making of arrangements by employers for the prevention of industrial disease and for securing the health of workers, including arrangements for medical examinations and health surveys;

requiring the making of arrangements by employers for monitoring the atmospheric or other conditions of workplaces;

requiring an employer to identify, assess and minimize the risk of a prescribed injury or disease to workers;

prescribing standards for tools, appliances and equipment including the adoption of codes or standards, and providing for the prohibition of the sale, rental or lease of tools, appliances or equipment that do not meet the prescribed standards;

requiring and governing medical facilities or first aid facilities to be located at workplaces;

requiring the use of certain clothing and personal protection equipment by workers or classes of workers;

designating occupations as hazardous occupations;

designating a workplace or class of workplace as a hazardous workplace;

requiring the making of reports by employers to the division;

[Rep. by 1997 c13 s49]

respecting the appointment of committees to advise the minister on technical matters relating to occupational health and safety;

[Rep. by 1997 c13 s49]

prescribing records to be kept by employers and submitted to the division;

[Rep. by 1998 c19 s20] and (aa) generally, to give effect to the purpose of this Act.

Where a regulation is made under this section requiring a worker or an applicant for employment to obtain a medical examination, the employer of the worker and the prospective employer of the applicant shall pay the fee for that examination directly to the medical examiner.

The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may in addition to or instead of regulations made under subsection (1) adopt by reference and constitute as regulations the whole or part or provisions of a code adopted or standards fixed, with or without modification, and including amendments, by the Canadian Standards Association, or another standards organization acceptable to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

A certificate of the minister that a document is a copy of a code or standard referred to in subsection (1) or an extract from, a modification of, or an amendment to, a code or standard is without further proof presumptive evidence of the content of that code or standard, or extract or amendment.