Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 18
Emergency response plan 18 (1) Every employer must, for each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure and having regard to the risk assessment carried out by it for the purpose of the occupational health and safety program, develop, implement and maintain a written emergency response plan in preparation for any reasonably foreseeable emergency that might compromise the health and safety of persons at that workplace or at any other workplace under its control that is a workboat or dive site associated with the marine installation or structure. Contents of plan (2) The emergency response plan must (a) indicate the maximum number of persons who can safely occupy the workplace; (b) indicate the minimum number of persons needed at the workplace to be able to maintain safe operations in the event of an emergency; (c) set out procedures for ensuring that the personnel on board list, which sets out the total number of persons at the workplace each day and the name, position, employer and, if applicable, cabin number of each, is kept up to date; (d) set out the name and contact information of the operator, if the operator is not the employer with control over the workplace; (e) provide for the establishment of emergency response teams; (f) set out the name, position and contact information, including the usual location, of each person responsible for overseeing the emergency response teams and the implementation of emergency response procedures, as well as the name, position and contact information of those persons’ delegates; (g) set out the duties of employees, including members of the emergency response teams, and the procedures to be followed by all persons during an emergency; (h) indicate the muster station or other location where each employee is required to report during an emergency; (i) identify the system to be used for counting employees at each muster station and determining which employees, if any, are missing; (j) include a description of all emergency alarm signals that may be used, including how the order to abandon is to be given; (k) set out contact information for obtaining a means of transportation to be used to evacuate the workplace; (l) identify and set out contact information for all emergency response entities — and other entities operating nearby — that could render assistance in the event of an emergency; (m) include verified drawings of the layout of the workplace that clearly identify the person who verified them, indicate the scale of the drawings and show (i) the location of all exits, fire escapes, stairways, elevators, corridors and other exit routes, (ii) the location of all muster stations, temporary refuge areas, evacuation stations and other locations where lifeboats and life rafts are stored, (iii) the location, quantity and type of all equipment that may be used or worn in implementing emergency response procedures, (iv) the location of manual emergency shutdown and activation devices for all safety critical systems, (v) the location, quantity and type of all emergency communications equipment, (vi) the location of all first aid stations, medical rooms and casualty clearing areas, and (vii) the location of all designated hazardous substance storage areas; and (n) identify all resources necessary for the plan’s implementation. Availability of plan (3) The employer must ensure that a copy of the emergency response plan is made readily available to all employees at the workplace. Multiple employers (4) If an employer has employees at a workplace not under its control, it must ensure that those employees comply with (a) the duties and procedures set out in the emergency response plan developed by the employer with control over the workplace; or (b) emergency duties and procedures that the employer has ensured are aligned with those referred to in paragraph (a).