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Policy Health and Safety Committee

Employers under federal jurisdiction with 300 or more employees across Canada are required to establish a policy health and safety committee.

The policy committee addresses issues that, because of their nature, cannot be effectively dealt with by individual workplace health and safety committees or representatives. Policy committees strengthen the internal responsibility system by ensuring consistency across an employer's work sites.

The policy committee has many duties including:

• to participate in the development of health and safety policies and programs;
• to deal with matters raised by its members or referred to it by a workplace committee or health and safety representative;
• to participate in the development and monitoring of a program for the prevention of workplace hazards that also provides for the health and safety education of employees; and
• to participate in inquiries, studies, investigations and inspections as it considers necessary.

The policy committee has access to all government and employer reports, studies and tests relating to the health and safety of employees. It can request from the employer any information it considers necessary to identify existing or potential hazards with respect to materials, processes, equipment or activities in any of the employer's workplaces.

For more information, see Pamphlet 6A – Policy Health and Safety Committees.

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Date Modified:

2011-07-29