Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

253 (1) Every employer must, in consultation with the policy committee or, if there is no policy committee, the work place committee or the health and safety representative, develop and implement an employee education and training program with respect to hazard prevention and control at the work place.

(2) The employee education and training program must include

• (a) the education and training of each employee who handles or is exposed to or who 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 or by the employer on a safety data sheet or label,

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

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

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

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

• (b) the education and training of each employee who operates, maintains or repairs 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,

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

  • (iii) the significance of the labelling, colour-coding, placarding or other modes of identification that are used;

• (c) the education and training of each employee who is referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), with respect to

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

  • (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

  • (iii) the procedures to follow if an employee is exposed to fugitive emissions as defined in section 259; and

• (d) the education and training of each employee on the procedures to follow to access electronic or paper versions of reports, records of education and training given and safety data sheets.

(3) Every employer must, in consultation with the policy committee or, if there is no policy committee, the work place committee or the health and safety representative, review the employee education and training program at least once a year and, if necessary, revise it

• (a) whenever there is a change in conditions in respect of the presence of 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 paper or electronic record of the education and training program given to each employee.

(5) The employer must make the record readily available for examination by the employee in any form, as determined in consultation with the policy committee or, if there is no policy committee, the work place committee or the health and safety representative, and keep it for a period of 10 years after the day on which the employee ceases to

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

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