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Workplace Health and Safety Committee

Workplace health and safety committees must be established in workplaces under federal jurisdiction where there are 20 or more employees. These committees have many duties including the following:

• to consider and expeditiously dispose of health and safety complaints;
• to participate in all of the inquiries, investigations, studies and inspections pertaining to employee health and safety;
• to participate in the implementation and monitoring of a program for the provision of personal protective equipment, clothing, devices, or materials, and, if there is no policy committee, participate in the development of the program;
• to participate in the implementation of changes that may affect occupational health and safety, including work processes and procedures, and, if there is no policy committee, participate in the planning of the implementation of those changes; and
• to inspect all or part of the workplace each month, so that every part of the workplace is inspected at least once a year.

Employees sitting on the workplace health and safety committee must receive training and compensation for participating in meetings and carrying out their duties.

For more information, see Pamphlet 6B – Workplace Health and Safety Committees.

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Date Modified:

2011-07-29