PART III GENERAL DUTIES — Occupational health and safety program

a statement of the employer’s commitment to cooperate with the occupational health and safety committee and workers in the workplace in carrying out their collective responsibility for occupational health and safety; implement the occupational health and safety program; and

a statement of the respective responsibilities of the employer, supervisors, the occupational health and safety committee and workers in carrying out their collective responsibility for occupational health and safety; review and, where necessary, revise the occupational health and safety program as follows:

procedures to identify the need for, and for the preparation of written safe work procedures to implement health and safety practices, including practices required by the Act and the regulations, or as required by an officer;

written work procedures appropriate to the hazards and work activity in the workplace;

a plan for orienting and training workers and supervisors in workplace and job-specific safe work practices, plans, policies and procedures, including emergency response, that are necessary to eliminate, reduce or control hazards;

provisions for establishing and operating an occupational health and safety committee, including provisions respecting

maintenance of membership records, (ii) procedural rules, (iii) access by the committee to management staff with the authority to resolve health and safety issues and to information about the employer’s operations required under the Act and the regulations, and (iv) a plan for training committee members as required under the Act; evaluation and monitoring of the workplace to identify potential hazards and the associated risks, (ii) procedures and schedules for regular inspections by management and committee members, (iii) procedures for the identification, reporting and control or correction of hazards, (iv) procedures for the prompt investigation of hazardous occurrences to determine the cause of the occurrence and the actions necessary to prevent a recurrence, a system to ensure that persons contracted by the employer or for the employer’s benefit comply with the program developed under this section and the Act and regulations; at least every 3 years, (ii) where there is a change of circumstances that may affect the health and safety of workers, and (iii) where an officer requests a review.

a system for the recognition, evaluation and control of hazards that includes:

identification of the circumstances where the employer is required to report hazards to the committee and the procedures for doing so, and (vi) measures for the accountability of persons responsible for the reporting and correction of hazards;

a plan for the control of biological and chemical substances handled, used, stored, produced or disposed of at the workplace and where appropriate, the monitoring of the work environment to ensure the health and safety of workers and other persons at or near the workplace;

an emergency response plan;

maintenance of records and statistics, including occupational health and safety committee minutes, reports of occupational health and safety inspections and investigations, with procedures to allow access to them by persons entitled to receive them under the Act; and

provision for monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of the program.

An employer that is required to establish and maintain an occupational health and safety program under section 36.1 of the Act shall