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COVID-19 Updates: Taking steps to return to normal.
OHS officers focus inspections on specific industry sectors, employers or types of work.
Each year, OHS proactively inspects employers to monitor compliance with legislation. OHS chooses employers and sectors with:
Inspection programs help work site parties identify health and safety hazards and measures to mitigate the hazards. More information on prevention priorities for the OHS system is available in the Prevention Initiative for Alberta's OHS System.
An OHS officer’s role is to monitor compliance with the legislation through review of records and documents, observations and conversations with work site parties. OHS officers may take measurements, samples, photos or recordings. A record of the inspection will be provided to work site parties at the conclusion of a site visit.
Work site parties are responsible for correcting any non-compliance identified by the OHS officer.
OHS officers may re-inspect sites to check on previous non-compliance with OHS laws.
Timing of programs will run from January 2021 to December 2022. The Healthcare Inspection Program is completed.
OHS will focusing on the following areas:
K-12 school re-entry inspection program
Arena focused inspections program
Care worker violence prevention focused inspection program
Fuel and convenience retailers focused inspections program
Vulnerable workers focused inspections program
Connect with OHS:
Phone: 780-415-8690 (Edmonton)
Toll free: 1-866-415-8690
TTY: 780-427-9999 (Edmonton)
TTY: 1-800-232-7215
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