Occupational Health & Safety Policy

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY POLICY

✓Employer legal name Province: Province Adopted: Policy adoption date

1. STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT 1.1. Statement of commitment to health & safety

2. RESPONSIBILITY 2.1. Responsible for implementing this policy: Persons responsible for implementation. 2.2. H&S representative / Joint Health and Safety Committee 2.3. ⚠️ British Columbia: a formal OHS program is required once headcount reaches 20 (or as low as 9, in higher-risk workplaces). ⚠️ Alberta: a health and safety representative is required at 5–19 workers.

3. TRAINING 3.1. New-hire health & safety training

4. HAZARD REPORTING 4.1. Procedure for reporting hazards

5. REVIEW 5.1. This policy is reviewed at least annually. Next review: Next annual review date.

APPROVED BY ______________ / Signature of senior manager / DATE Policy adoption date

— — — ⚠️ This is a boilerplate template, not legal advice. Employment, consumer-protection, privacy, and food-safety law in Canada is largely PROVINCIAL — this template uses Ontario (Employment Standards Act, 2000 / Occupational Health and Safety Act) as its default reference jurisdiction and flags with ⚠️ the specific British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec divergences named in the underlying research, but it does not resolve every provincial variation for you. Quebec employers additionally have French-language obligations under the Charte de la langue française (Bill 96) that are handled as a separate French-language document, not by this English template. Have this document reviewed and adapted by a lawyer licensed in the relevant province before use, and confirm the current minimums/thresholds in force on the date of use — termination-clause case law in particular (Waksdale, Dufault, Chan and successors) changes year to year.