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Health and Safety Committees and Representatives

Health and safety committees and representatives play a vital role in preventing work-related injuries and diseases, and are an important part of what is called the internal responsibility system. This system, based on cooperation between employers and employees, improves the overall understanding of occupational health and safety issues in the workplace.

The Canada Labour Code also provides a specific dispute resolution mechanism called the internal complaint resolution process. Employers and employees must follow this process to resolve occupational health and safety problems and disputes. Both the internal responsibility system and the internal complaint resolution process require extensive participation by the health and safety committees and representatives.

Depending on the size of the individual workplaces concerned, employers under federal jurisdiction must:

• establish a workplace health and safety committee;
• establish a policy health and safety committee; and/or
• designate a health and safety representative.

In addition, employers with more than 300 employees across Canada must have a Policy Committee that allows employees to more effectively participate in and contribute to the management of health and safety in the workplace.

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Date Modified:

2011-06-07