Health & Safety Roadmap
Follow these 4 simple, but powerful steps to meet your legal obligations and protect your workers.

STEP 1. Know Your Legal Obligations
Complying with your legal responsibilities as detailed under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act is crucial. By completing our confidential Legislative Compliance Questionnaire you’ll find out what your key responsibilities are, how well you’re doing, and where you need to focus your efforts to ensure that you’re in compliance.

STEP 2. Recognize, Assess & Control Hazards
Here’s where you really start to take control of the health and safety of your workplace. Identifying, assessing and controlling the hazards that exist in your workplace – things like chemicals, machines, materials handling equipment, noise, work surfaces, ergonomic issues and many more.

STEP 3. Provide Information & Training
Ontario’s Occupational Health & Safety Act is anchored on the principle of the internal responsibility system – everyone in the workplace doing their part to keep the workplace safe and healthy. Employers, for example, must provide information and training to workers about the hazards to which they may be exposed. Workers, in turn, must use that training to work safely. Supervisors and others with health and safety responsibilities also need training. This section will help you to determine who in your workplace needs training, and which kind.

STEP 4. Measure, Evaluate and Improve
Employee health and safety are integral to productivity. A management system that integrates health and safety activities into all aspects of the company's operations will help achieve positive results in productivity, quality and, above all, the health and safety of employees.