Comments on: The ‘General Duty’ Clause in Canada http://www.safetyxchange.org/compliance-risk-management/general-duty-clause-canada-2 Putting Safety First Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=5626 hourly 1 By: aquilley@shaw.ca http://www.safetyxchange.org/compliance-risk-management/general-duty-clause-canada-2/comment-page-1#comment-252 aquilley@shaw.ca Sat, 23 May 2009 17:08:14 +0000 http://www.safetyxchange.org/?p=6188#comment-252 In Alberta, the OH&S Code has a supporting document which is the Government OH&S department's interpretation (or guidance) on their thoughts regarding expectations of employers and methods of compliance. Although this document has no direct legal power, if an employer had followed this guidance in establishing their safety compliance process a Crown Prosecutor would have a tough battle proving that the employer didn’t do “everything practical” to prevent an accident. This interpretation document isn’t as complete as it could be but it is a good start in giving clarity to many of Alberta’s performance based code requirements. The history of this document is that this interpretation guide was originally the OH&S Officers’ field directions…I know because I once was one. Thank goodness we decided to share the information with the very people who need to understand and comply. Human’s can be so clever sometimes! If anyone is interested you can use the handy on-line search for examples: http://employment.alberta.ca/hre/whs/reg/Search.asp In Alberta, the OH&S Code has a supporting document which is the Government OH&S department's interpretation (or guidance) on their thoughts regarding expectations of employers and methods of compliance. Although this document has no direct legal power, if an employer had followed this guidance in establishing their safety compliance process a Crown Prosecutor would have a tough battle proving that the employer didn’t do “everything practical” to prevent an accident. This interpretation document isn’t as complete as it could be but it is a good start in giving clarity to many of Alberta’s performance based code requirements. The history of this document is that this interpretation guide was originally the OH&S Officers’ field directions…I know because I once was one. Thank goodness we decided to share the information with the very people who need to understand and comply. Human’s can be so clever sometimes!

If anyone is interested you can use the handy on-line search for examples:
http://employment.alberta.ca/hre/whs/reg/Search.asp

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