Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

253 (1) Every employer must, in consultation with the work place committee or the health and safety representative, as the case may be, develop and implement an employee education program with respect to hazard prevention and control at the work place.

(2) The employee education program must include

• (a) issuing instructions to each employee who handles or is exposed to or is likely to handle or be exposed to a hazardous substance with respect to

  • (i) the product identifier of the hazardous substance,

  • (ii) all hazard information disclosed by the supplier of the hazardous substance or by the employer on a material safety data sheet or label,

  • (iii) all hazard information of which the employer is aware or ought reasonably to be aware,

  • (iv) the observations referred to in paragraph 245(3)(a),

  • (v) the information disclosed on the material safety data sheet referred to in subsections 258(2) and 262(1) and the purpose and significance of that information, and

  • (vi) in respect of controlled products on a vessel, the information required to be disclosed on a material safety data sheet and on a label in accordance with sections 262, 263 or 265 and the purposes and significance of that information;

• (b) providing the training and instruction to each employee who is charged with operating, maintaining or repairing an assembly of pipes referred to in section 252 with respect to

  • (i) every valve and other control and safety device connected to the assembly of pipes, and

  • (ii) the procedures to follow for the proper and safe use of the assembly of pipes;

• (c) providing the training and instruction to each employee referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) with respect to

  • (i) the procedures to follow to implement the requirements of subsections 250(1), (2) and (5), and

  • (ii) the procedures to follow for the safe storage, handling, use and disposal of hazardous substances, including procedures to be followed in an emergency involving a hazardous substance; and

• (d) if the employer makes an electronic version of a material safety data sheet available in accordance with subsections 258(2) and 262(1), the training of each employee in accessing that material safety data sheet.

(3) Every employer must, in consultation with the work place committee or the health and safety representative, as the case may be, review the employee education program at least once a year and revise it

• (a) whenever there is a change in conditions in respect of the hazardous substances in the work place; and

• (b) whenever new hazard information in respect of a hazardous substance in the work place becomes available to the employer.

(4) The employer must keep a written or electronic record of the employee education program and any training received by each employee.

(5) The employer must make the record readily available for examination by the employee and keep it for a period of 10 years after the day on which the employee ceases to

• (a) handle or be exposed to the hazardous substance or be likely to handle or be exposed to the hazardous substance; or

• (b) operate, maintain or repair the assembly of pipes.