OHS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Csa Group, Workplace Violence, Occupational Safety And Health
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Ohs module 6 - prevention legislation (part one) The three rights: the right to know, workers have the right to know about the hazards in their workplace. Regulations and other guidance: enabling legislation authorizes the creation of detailed regulations. This task is given to the lieutenant governor in council a term which means the cabinet. Ontario, this authority is included in section 70. There are some 52 subsections detailing all of the kinds of regulations that can be made under the authority of the act: the process of making a regulation begins with the ministry responsible for the legislation. Section 2 of the ontario act binds the crown (makes the legislation apply to the government). Section 3 lists several areas where the act does not apply. This was an appeal of an order written under the. The appellant company was in the business of producing mushroom spawn from mushroom spores for the purpose of sale to mushroom growers.