Duty of Employee and Employer
Duty of Employers
Employers are responsible to:
Ensure workplace safety: Employers must ensure that the workplace, equipment, work techniques, procedures, and systems under their control ensure the health and safety of their workers as far as reasonably practicable.
Inform workers of hazards: Employers must make their workers aware of all known or reasonably foreseeable hazards or potential hazards to which they are likely to be exposed by their work.
Inform workers of their rights and responsibilities: Employers must inform their workers of their rights, responsibilities, and duties under this Part of the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act.
Ensure compliance with the Act and regulations: Employers must ensure that their workers comply with the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act and its associated regulations.
Provide necessary information, instruction, training, supervision, and facilities: Employers must provide their workers with the information, instruction, training, supervision, and facilities necessary to ensure that work is performed in a safe manner.
Consult and cooperate with worker health and safety representatives: Employers must consult and cooperate with the committee or worker health and safety representative, as applicable, regarding their duties and matters of the committee or worker health and safety representative under this Part.
Ensure competency of supervisors: Employers must ensure that their supervisors are competent, because of knowledge, training, or experience, to ensure that work is performed in a safe manner. They must also ensure that supervisors are familiar with the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act and its associated regulations that are applicable to the work being supervised.
Check the health and safety of workers: Employers must make efforts to check the health and safety of their workers in situations when workers might not be able to secure assistance in the event of injury or other misfortune.
Ensure the use of protective equipment and clothing: Employers must ensure that their workers use the protective equipment and wear the protective clothing required to be used or worn under this Part of the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act.
Prevent injury or death to other employers' workers and other persons: Employers must take all precautions and adopt and carry out all work techniques, procedures, and systems under their control that will prevent or reduce the risk of injury or death to other employers' workers and other persons at or near the workplace.
Establish health and safety management systems: Employers must establish health and safety management systems, as required, in accordance with this Part of the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act and its associated regulations.
Maintain records: Employers must maintain records of the information, instruction, and training provided under this Part of the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act and make those records available to the following on request:
their workers;
the committee or worker health and safety representative;
an officer;
a person authorized under the Workers' Compensation Act.
Provide notice of accidents: Employers must immediately provide notice of accidents that occur in the workplace to the following:
the committee or worker health and safety representative;
an officer;
the Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board.
Investigate accidents: Employers must investigate, in accordance with the regulations, every accident that causes or may cause injury to a worker or damage to equipment or other property.
Provide information to officers: Employers must provide information, documents, and things as requested by an officer carrying out their duties under the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act.
Cooperate with officers: Employers must cooperate with officers carrying out their duties under the Workers' Safety and Compensation Act.
Provide access to the workplace: Employers must provide officers with access to the workplace, equipment, and work processes during regular working
Duty of employee
Employees are responsible to do the following to ensure their health and safety:
Take necessary precautions for their own safety and the safety of others.
Follow established safe work procedures.
Use all necessary protective equipment and clothing provided by the employer.
Refrain from engaging in any activity that might create a hazard.
Report any unsafe acts or conditions to their supervisor or employer.
Cooperate with the committee or worker health and safety representative.
Cooperate with anyone performing a duty under regulations
YK Workers Safety and Compensation Act s.27-29