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Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.008
Application of Labour Relations Act , R.S.N.L. 1990, c. L-1 205.008 (1) Despite section 4 of the Canada Labour Code and any other Act of Parliament, the provisions of the Labour Relations Act , R.S.N.L. 1990, c. L-1, as amended from time to time, and any regulations made under it, apply to and in respect of (a) a marine installation or structure that is situated within the offshore area in connection with the exploration or drilling for — or the production, conservation or processing of — petroleum, or in connection with offshore renewable energy projects, within the offshore area and that is in the offshore area for the purpose of becoming, or that is, permanently attached to, permanently anchored to or permanently resting on the seabed or subsoil of the submarine areas of the offshore area; (b) any workboat used by an employee, and operated from a marine installation or structure, to perform routine maintenance or repair work in connection with a work or activity for which an authorization has been issued; and (c) a dive site from which, and any underwater area at which, a diving operation is conducted by an employee in connection with a work or activity for which an authorization has been issued. Application of Part I of Canada Labour Code (2) Part I of the Canada Labour Code applies to and in respect of a marine installation or structure that is situated within the offshore area in connection with the exploration or drilling for — or the production, conservation or processing of — petroleum, or in connection with offshore renewable energy projects, within the offshore area if subsection (1) does not apply to or in respect of the marine installation or structure. 2014, c. 13, s. 45 2024, c. 20, s. 91
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.009
Prevention of accidents and injury 205.009 (1) The purpose of this Part is to prevent accidents and injury arising out of, linked to or occurring in the course of employment to which this Part applies, in particular by (a) allocating responsibility for occupational health and safety among the Regulator and the persons, unions and committees having obligations under this Part; and (b) establishing a framework for them to exercise their rights and carry out their obligations. Preventive measures (2) Preventive measures should first aim at the elimination of hazards, then the reduction of the risks posed by the hazards and finally, the taking of protective measures, all with the goal of ensuring the health and safety of employees. 2014, c. 13, s. 45 2024, c. 20, s. 101 2024, c. 20, s. 103(F)
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.01
Principles 205.01 (1) The allocation of responsibility for occupational health and safety is based on the following principles: (a) operators have overall responsibility; and (b) operators, employers, suppliers, providers of services, employees, supervisors, owners and interest holders have individual and shared responsibilities, and are responsible for cooperating with each other and coordinating their activities related to occupational health and safety. Specific obligations not to limit general obligations (2) For greater certainty, the imposition of any specific obligation under this Part shall not be construed as limiting the generality of any other obligation under this Part. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.011
Duty to establish occupational health and safety policy 205.011 (1) Every operator shall develop an occupational health and safety policy governing its workplaces. Contents (2) The policy shall be set out in writing and contain (a) the commitments of the operator related to occupational health and safety, including its commitment to cooperate with employees with regard to health and safety; (b) the responsibilities of the employers at any of the operator’s workplaces related to occupational health and safety; and (c) any prescribed requirements. Duty to review (3) The operator shall review the policy at least every three years in consultation with each workplace committee that it establishes and with each employer at any of the operator’s workplaces. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.012
Duty to take reasonable measures 205.012 Every operator shall take all reasonable measures to ensure the health and safety of all employees and other individuals at its workplaces and of all employees or other passengers while — and immediately before — being transported on a passenger craft to or from any of those workplaces. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.013
at workplace is inspected at least once a year, and ensure that the workplace committee participates; (r) ensure that a record is kept of each inspection referred to in paragraph (q), including any corrective action taken as a consequence; and (s) cooperate with the Regulator and with persons carrying out duties or functions under this Part. Exception to paragraph (1)(q) (2) Despite paragraph (1)(q), all or part of a workplace described in paragraph (a) of the definition workplace in subsection 205.001(1) does not have to be inspected at least once a month if that workplace, or that part of the workplace, is normally unattended and is used for the purpose of carrying out an offshore renewable energy project. 2014, c. 13, s. 45 2024, c. 20, s. 92 2024, c. 20, s. 101
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.014
Specific duties — passenger craft 205.014 (1) Every operator shall, each time before employees or other passengers are transported on a passenger craft to or from any of its workplaces, (a) ensure that the employees and other passengers are provided with any information and instruction — including any that are prescribed — necessary for their health and safety; and (b) ensure that the employees are provided with the operator’s contact information for the purposes of subsection 205.054(2). Specific duty — passenger craft (2) Every operator shall ensure that a passenger craft going to or from any of its workplaces (a) meets the requirements of any Act or other law that relates to the health or safety of the employees and other passengers on the passenger craft; and (b) is equipped with any equipment, devices and materials necessary to ensure the health and safety of the employees and other passengers, including any that are prescribed. Specific duties — personal protective equipment (3) Every operator shall ensure that all employees and other passengers on a passenger craft going to or from any of its workplaces (a) are provided with any personal protective equipment necessary to ensure their health and safety, including any that is prescribed; and (b) are provided with the information and training — including any that are prescribed —  required for the proper use of personal protective equipment provided under paragraph (a) and the equipment, devices and materials referred to in paragraph (2)(b). 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.015
Occupational health and safety management system 205.015 (1) Every operator shall develop, implement and maintain an occupational health and safety management system that fosters a culture of workplace safety and that is adapted to the circumstances of the work or activity specified in each authorization issued to the operator, for the purposes of (a) implementing its occupational health and safety policy; (b) ensuring that the provisions of this Part and the regulations made under this Part are complied with; and (c) complying with the occupational health and safety requirements of each of those authorizations, and those undertaken in a declaration related to any of those authorizations. Contents (2) The system shall be set out in writing and include provisions regarding (a) the management of risks to the health and safety of employees — including any prescribed risks — and procedures for (i) the ongoing and systematic identification and reporting of all hazards, (ii) the assessment of risks associated with identified hazards, and (iii) the implementation of hazard control measures; (b) the role of any committee established for any of the operator’s workplaces and the interaction between those committees; (c) the roles and accountability of the employers, employees, providers of services and suppliers that are responsible for implementing the operator’s occupational health and safety policy and occupational health and safety management system; (d) the allocation of sufficient resources to ensure that employees continue to be qualified and competent, that there is proper quality control of documents, facilities, equipment and materials and that there is effective cooperation among employers; (e) the procedures for carrying out work or activities, dealing with changes in operations and responding to emergencies; (f) the procedures for dealing with failures to comply with the system and the procedures for the reporting and investigating of occupational diseases and of accidents, incidents and other hazardous occurrences and the keeping of related records and statistical analysis; (g) the auditing of the adequacy and effectiveness of the system, including (i) determining the ability of the system to achieve the purposes set out in subsection (1), and (ii) identifying improvements that could be made to the system; and (h) the implementation of the improvements identified during the audit referred to in paragraph (g). Duty to review (3) The operator shall review the system at least every three years in consultation with each workplace committee that it establishes. Limitation (4) If the regulations establish requirements in respect of anything described in any of paragraphs (2)(a) to (h), the system shall meet the requirements of those regulations. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.016
Power to require code of practice 205.016 (1) The Chief Safety Officer may, in writing, require an operator to establish a code of practice in respect of occupational health and safety, or to adopt a code of practice in respect of occupational health and safety that is specified by the Chief Safety Officer, in respect of (a) any of its workplaces or any work or activity carried out at any of its workplaces; or (b) the transportation of employees to or from any of its workplaces. Revision of code of practice (2) The code of practice may be revised by the Chief Safety Officer from time to time, or the Chief Safety Officer may require the operator to revise it from time to time. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.017
Notification of accidents, etc. 205.017 (1) Every operator shall, as soon as it becomes known to the operator, notify the Chief Safety Officer of (a) any occupational disease at any of its workplaces; or (b) any accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence at any of its workplaces, or on a passenger craft going to or from any of those workplaces, that causes a death or serious injury or in which a death or serious injury is narrowly avoided. Investigation of accidents, etc. (2) Every operator shall investigate any occupational disease, or any accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence, described in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) and shall keep adequate records of its investigation — including any records that are prescribed — for the period that is prescribed. Report (3) An operator shall, no later than April 1 of each year, submit to each workplace committee that it establishes, to the Chief Safety Officer and, on request, to any special committee established for any of its workplaces, a written report for the immediately preceding calendar year, in a form determined by that Officer. Contents of report (4) The report shall set out data on all occupational diseases, and all accidents, incidents and other hazardous occurrences, that have occurred at any of the operator’s workplaces or on a passenger craft going to or from any of those workplaces during the calendar year covered by the report, including the number of deaths, the number of serious injuries and the number of minor injuries. Definition of serious injury (5) In this section, serious injury means an injury that (a) results in the loss by an individual of a body member or part of a body member or in the complete loss by an individual of the usefulness of a body member or part of a body member; (b) results in the permanent impairment of a body function of an individual; or (c) prevents an employee from reporting for work or from effectively performing all the functions connected with their regular work on any day subsequent to the day on which the injury occurred, whether or not that subsequent day is a working day for them. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.018
Duty to take reasonable measures 205.018 Every employer shall take all reasonable measures to ensure (a) the health and safety of its employees and other individuals at a workplace under its control; (b) the health and safety of its employees at a workplace that is not under its control, to the extent that it controls their activities at the workplace; and (c) the health and safety of its employees while — and immediately before — they are transported on a passenger craft. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.019
01(1) does not have to be inspected at least once a month if that workplace, or that part of the workplace, is normally unattended and is used for the purpose of carrying out an offshore renewable energy project. Training (2) An employee who, with the approval of their employer, is receiving training that is required under this Part shall be paid the same wages and granted the same benefits that the employee would have received had they been working. 2014, c. 13, s. 45 2024, c. 20, s. 93 2024, c. 20, s. 101
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.02
Occupational health and safety program 205.02 (1) For the purpose of implementing the operator’s occupational health and safety policy, every employer shall, in consultation with the workplace committee, develop, implement and maintain, in respect of each workplace under the employer’s control, an occupational health and safety program that fosters a culture of workplace safety, if (a) five or more employees are normally employed at the workplace by the employer; (b) the program is required by the Chief Safety Officer; or (c) the requirement for such a program is prescribed. Contents (2) The program shall be set out in writing and include provisions regarding (a) the management of risks to the health and safety of the employees — including any prescribed risks — and procedures for (i) the ongoing and systematic identification and reporting of all hazards, (ii) the assessment of risks associated with identified hazards, and (iii) the implementation of hazard control measures; (b) the training and supervision of the employees that are necessary to ensure their health and safety and that of other individuals at the workplace; (c) the establishment of special committees, the operation of workplace committees and special committees, the access by committees to a level of management with authority to resolve occupational health and safety matters and the information required under this Part to be maintained in relation to those committees; (d) the roles of committees and their interaction in implementing the operator’s occupational health and safety policy; (e) the roles and accountability of the employers, employees, providers of services and suppliers that are responsible for implementing the operator’s occupational health and safety policy; (f) the procedures, including those required under this Part, to be followed to protect the employees’ health and safety, and the identification of the types of work to which those procedures apply; (g) the procedures to be followed to deal with (i) failures to comply with the program and with the reporting and investigating of occupational diseases, and of accidents, incidents and other hazardous occurrences, at the workplace, and (ii) the keeping of related records and statistical analysis; (h) the auditing of the adequacy and effectiveness of the program, including (i) determining the ability of the program to meet the requirements of the operator’s occupational health and safety policy and occupational health and safety management system, and (ii) identifying improvements that could be made to the program; and (i) the implementation of the improvements identified during the audit referred to in paragraph (h). Limitation (3) If the regulations establish requirements in respect of anything described in any of paragraphs (2)(a) to (i), the program shall meet the requirements of those regulations. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.021
Power to require code of practice 205.021 (1) The Chief Safety Officer may, in writing, require an employer to establish, in respect of a workplace under the employer’s control or any work or activity carried out at any of those workplaces, a code of practice in respect of occupational health and safety, or to adopt, in respect of such a workplace, work or activity, a code of practice in respect of occupational health and safety that is specified by the Chief Safety Officer. Revision of code of practice (2) The code of practice may be revised by the Chief Safety Officer from time to time, or the Chief Safety Officer may require the employer to revise it from time to time. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.022
Specific duties of employer — hazardous materials 205.022 Subject to any exceptions that are prescribed, every employer shall, in respect of each workplace under its control, and in respect of any activity performed by any of its employees at a workplace that is not under its control, to the extent that it controls the activity, (a) ensure that concentrations of hazardous substances at the workplace are controlled in accordance with any standards that are prescribed; (b) ensure that all hazardous substances at the workplace are stored and handled in the manner that is prescribed; (c) ensure that all hazardous substances at the workplace, other than controlled products, are identified in the manner that is prescribed; (d) subject to the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act , ensure that each controlled product at the workplace or each container at the workplace in which a controlled product is contained has applied to it a label that discloses information that is prescribed and has displayed on it, in the manner that is prescribed, all applicable hazard symbols that are prescribed; (e) subject to the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act , make available to every employee at the workplace, in the manner that is prescribed, a material safety data sheet that discloses the following information with respect to each controlled product to which the employee may be exposed, namely, (i) if the controlled product is a pure substance, its chemical identity, and if it is not a pure substance, the chemical identity of any of its ingredients that is a controlled product and the concentration of that ingredient, (ii) if the controlled product contains an ingredient that is included in the Ingredient Disclosure List and the ingredient is in a concentration that is equal to or greater than the concentration specified in that List for that ingredient, the chemical identity and concentration of that ingredient, (iii) the chemical identity of any ingredient of the controlled product that the employer believes on reasonable grounds may be harmful to an employee at the workplace and the concentration of that ingredient, (iv) the chemical identity of any ingredient of the controlled product whose toxicological properties are not known to the employer and the concentration of that ingredient, and (v) any other information that is prescribed with respect to the controlled product; (f) if employees at the workplace may be exposed to hazardous substances, investigate and assess the potential exposure in the manner that is prescribed, with the assistance of the workplace committee or the coordinator, as the case may be; and (g) ensure that all records of exposure to hazardous substances are kept and maintained in the manner that is prescribed and that personal records of exposure are made available to the affected employees. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.023
Employer to provide information in emergency 205.023 (1) Every employer shall, in respect of each workplace under its control, and in respect of an activity performed by any of its employees at a workplace that is not under its control, to the extent that it controls the activity, provide, in respect of any controlled product to which an employee may be exposed, as soon as the circumstances permit, any information referred to in paragraph 205.022(e) that is in the employer’s possession to any physician — or other medical professional that is prescribed —  who requests that information for the purpose of making a medical diagnosis of, or rendering medical treatment to, an employee in an emergency. Confidentiality (2) Any physician — or other medical professional that is prescribed — to whom information is provided by an employer under subsection (1) shall keep confidential any information specified by the employer as being confidential, except for the purpose for which it is provided. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.024
Duty to take reasonable measures 205.024 Every supervisor shall take all reasonable measures to ensure the health and safety of employees and other individuals that they supervise at a workplace. 2014, c. 13, s. 45
Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act — C-7.5 205.025
Specific duties 205.025 Every supervisor shall (a) ensure that the employees that they supervise comply with the provisions of this Part and the regulations made under this Part; (b) inform their employer and each of those employees of known or foreseeable health or safety hazards; (c) if required to do so by their employer or the operator, provide those employees with written instructions as to the measures to be taken and the procedures to be followed for the protection of the employees; and (d) report to their employer any failure to comply with the provisions of this Part or of the regulations made under this Part, or with the occupational health and safety requirements of any authorization related to the workplace that is issued to the operator. 2014, c. 13, s. 45