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OHS & Workers’ Comp Workplace Posting Requirements Checklist – Federal

The duty to post notices, information and other materials at your workplace for your employees comes in 2 basic kinds.

Use this checklist to ensure your organization has the required postings.

Posting Requirements Checklist – Federal

Item Yes No Comments
1. Names, workplace phone numbers + locations of all JHSC members or workplace safety rep (Canada Labour Code, Sec. 125(1)(z.17))      
2. Copy of request for exemption from requirement to establish JHSC or safety rep at your workplace (Code, Sec. 135(6.1))      
3. Notice of Danger required by MOL (near machine, equipment or site where danger is located) (Code, Sec. 145(3))      
4. Copy of an OHS officer report or direction (Code, Sec. 145(5)(a))      
5. Phone number of contact person to field health + safety-related indoor air complaints (COHS Regs., Sec. 2.26)      
6. Report indicating employee likely to be exposed to hazardous level of noise (Lex,8 equal to or greater than 84 dBA) (COHS Regs., Sec. 7.3(7)(a))      
7. Signs warning of potentially hazardous levels of sound at workplaces where an employee may be exposed to an A-weighted sound pressure level greater than 87 dBA (COHS Regs., Sec. 7.7.8(1))      
8. Legible sign with words “Danger — High Voltage” and “Danger — Haute Tension” in letters at least 50 mm in height on a contrasting background at every approach to live high voltage electrical equipment (COHS Regs., Sec. 8.7)      
9. Signs advising employees of hazards and required precautions in service work areas where friction material is handled or dust arising from that material is generated if an employee undertaking automotive service procedures may be exposed to asbestos from friction material or dust arising from that material (COHS Regs., Sec. 10.26.3)      
10. Results of asbestos air sampling tests (within 24 hours of obtaining) (COHS Regs., Sec. 10.26.8(3))      
11. Results of asbestos clearance air sampling tests (within 24 hours of obtaining) (COHS, Sec. 10.26.10)      
12. Instead of a WHMIS label can use a sign listing following info about a hazardous product that’s not in a container:(a) the product identifier; (b) the product’s hazard information; and (c) a statement that an SDS for the hazardous product is available in the workplace (COHS Regs., Sec. 10.36)      
13. Sign that discloses the product identifier near a hazardous product that’s: (a) in a process, reaction or storage vessel; (b) in a continuous-run container; (c) in a bulk shipment that’s not placed in a container at the workplace; or (d) not in a container and stored in bulk (COHS Regs., Sec. 10.38)      
14. Sign listing generic name and hazard information of a hazardous waste in workplace near the hazardous waste or its container (COHS Regs., Sec. 10.43)      
15. Warning sign in a materials handling area (unless there’s a signaller in control) (COHS Regs., Sec. 14.38(1))      
16. Warning signs with the words “DANGEROUS INTERSECTION — CROISEMENT DANGEREUX”, in letters at least 50 mm in height on a contrasting background along the approaches to the intersection where an aisle, corridor or other principal traffic route in a workplace intersects with another route (COHS Regs., Sec. 14.44(3))      
17. Information about first aid, including: (a) description of first aid to be provided for an injury or illness, including: (b) Location first aid stations + rooms; (c) List of first aid attendants + where they’re located; (d) List of emergency phone numbers; and (e) Info for evacuating injured employees (COHS Regs., Sec. 16.6(1))      
18. Details of evacuation plans + procedures (COHS Regs., Sec. 17.6(2))      
19. Signs at entrances to fire hazard areas that: (a) identify area as a fire hazard area; and (b) ban use of an open flame or other source of ignition in area (COHS Regs., Sec. 17.12)      

JHSC: Joint Health + Safety Committee
Safety Rep: Workplace Health + Safety Representative
DSR: Designated Smoking Room