Employers’ workplace responsibilities

The WCA identifies responsibilities that are common to all places of employment. To ensure health and safety, the employer must:

• remedy workplace hazardous conditions
• ensure that workers:

• • • are aware of known or foreseeable hazards of their work
    • comply with the Act and Regulation
    • are made aware of their rights and duties

• establish occupational health and safety policies
• provide and maintain protective equipment, devices, and clothing as required
• provide information, instruction, training, and supervision to workers in carrying out their work
• make a copy of the Act and Regulation available for review by workers
• co-operate with workplace safety representative and WorkSafeBC