Occupational Health and Safety Act & Regulation
Compliance
The compliance process is a mandatory process that affects all Yukon businesses (except those, such as telecommunications, airlines and First Nation governments, that fall under federal legislation).
The purpose of this process is to encourage a cooperative, common sense approach to eliminating workplace hazards.
Step 1: A Safety Officer inspects your workplace. If possible, a hazard observed by the Safety Officer should be corrected immediately.
Step 2: If the hazard cannot be corrected right away, an Inspection Order is written. This order will set a deadline for both correcting the hazard and notifying the OH&S office that it was done.
Step 3: Beginning June 1, 2010 if the company fails to notify the OH&S office of compliance within the deadline outlined in the Inspection Order an immediate administrative penalty of $250 will be issued to that company and for every week OH&S has not been notified of compliance, the fine will double.
Note: If the company contacts OH&S before a compliance deadline and provides reasonable grounds for not being able to meet the deadline, an extension will be considered.
Step 4: Beginning June 1, 2010, when a re inspection of a workplace shows the company has failed to comply with the Inspection Order by not correcting the hazard or unsafe situation, immediate administrative penalties will be issued and/or prosecution will be considered.
In addition, if the Compliance Order was to correct a high-risk hazard (one that places workers in imminent danger of serious injury or death), the worksite may be shut down until the hazard is correct and the employer will be fined or prosecuted.
Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board
