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Workplace Posting Requirements OHS and Workers Comp Checklist – Nova Scotia

The duty to post notices, information and other materials at your workplace for your employees comes from 4 different sets of laws, including OHS and workers’ compensation.

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

OHS (+ WORKERS’ COMP)

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Names + contact info of JHSC members or safety rep
Minutes of most recent JHSC meeting
Copy of OHS Act
Code of practice for workplace violence
Code of practice for SCUBA diving at construction or industrial site
Code of practice for using rubber gloves instead of hot line tools to handle energized power lines or equipment over 750 volts
Code of practice for work requiring rope access
Code of practice for maintenance, utility or construction work at temporary highway workplaces
Any other code of practice required by OHS Act or Regs.
Current phone number for workers to report OHS concerns to Division
OHS Policy (if 5 or more employees regularly employed at site)
Copy of OHS order, edited order, compliance notice or notice of appeal or decision
Application to appeal OHS inspector’s order
Notice of appeal
Application for deviation from Regs.
Copy of decision on deviation application
Names of gases stored (must be posted in compressed gas cylinder storage area)
Currently valid certification of confined space conditions
Location of first aid supplies
Location or phone number of first aid attendant(s)
List of emergency phone numbers
Copy of workplace violence prevention statement
Notice listing nearest location where workers can get copy of Workers’ Comp Act
Any card, notice or printed info the WCB orders the employer to post