The plan must be made available to anyone who asks to see it, and posted in a place where it will be seen easily. All employers are encouraged to review and update their safety plan regularly. You can use the workplace safety plan builder to help create your plan.
Employers are not required to send their plan to the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development and the ministry will not provide comments on safety plans sent in. During an inspection of your workplace, an inspector or compliance officer could ask whether you have developed a safety plan and may ask to see it.
This guide does not replace the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the Employment Standards Act and their regulations and should not be used as or considered legal advice. Health and safety inspectors and employment standards officers apply the law based on the facts in the workplace. Share the plan with all workplace parties when it is done. This will help ensure your workers and others understand how you plan to manage the risks of COVID covid Check the resources to prevent COVID covid 19 in the workplace for sector-specific information and examples of controls that apply to your type of workplace.
These documents may be helpful as you develop your plan. Visit the webpage regularly to check for the latest information. Find out about the latest public health measures, advice and restrictions. The first step to control risks in a workplace is to identify them. COVID covid 19 primarily spreads from person-to-person through respiratory droplets created by a person who is infected. Respiratory droplets vary in size from large droplets that fall to the ground rapidly near the person, to smaller droplets, sometimes called aerosols.
The droplets are created when a person:. Each additional risk factor in the workplace increases the risk of transmission. Not having any of these factors does not mean there is no risk of transmission. The risk of severe health outcomes is not the same for all workers. The risk increases with age and is higher for people with certain medical conditions. It is possible for COVID covid 19 to be spread by people who do not have any symptoms, including people who have been vaccinated.
Act as if everyone is infected when setting up controls. Control measures are the steps you take to reduce the risks to your workers. With an infectious disease like COVID covid 19 your controls can help to break the chain of transmission of the virus and reduce the risk of a workplace outbreak.
Your controls should address the key risk factors for COVID covid 19 transmission in your workplace. The most effective way to stop the spread of COVID covid 19 is to limit interactions between people.
All workers who can work from home should continue to do so. This is an important way to both protect these workers and help protect those who do have to go into the workplace. For workers who must be in the workplace, there are a variety of control measures to help reduce the risk of transmission. These measures help to protect workers in different ways. For example:. The best way to reduce the likelihood of transmission in your workplace is to have multiple controls in place.
This is especially important in situations where one or more controls cannot be consistently maintained. COVID covid 19 vaccines may supplement, but should not replace, any workplace controls. No single action, including vaccination, is perfect at controlling risks. Workplace control measures reduce the chance of people being exposed to the virus.
Vaccination reduces the chance that the person vaccinated will get sick if they are exposed to COVID covid The hierarchy of controls image and description below can help you choose the right controls for your workplace.
When making your plan, always start by considering the most effective controls first. First, try to eliminate the hazard altogether. Where eliminating the hazard is not possible, use multiple engineering and administrative controls.
The higher the control appears in the diagram and the earlier it is in the list, the more effective it is. The first three types of controls are more effective because once in place they do not usually require additional action by a worker.
The effective use of administrative controls and PPE requires workers and other people to implement them properly and consistently every time. Even with the rapid and collaborative response to COVID covid 19 , there are still many uncertainties about the disease. As new findings emerge, what we know about the risks and best practices for controls may change, so it is important to stay current.
The safety plan approach allows you to incorporate new information as it becomes available. Remove the risk of exposure entirely from the workplace. For example, having everyone work from home all the time would eliminate COVID covid 19 risk from a workplace.
Replace a hazardous substance with something less hazardous for example, replace one chemical with another. Make physical changes to remove the hazard through ventilation or separate workers from the hazard, including changes that support physical distancing and hygiene.
For example, you could:. Make changes to the ways people work and interact, using policies, procedures, training and signage. This is equipment and clothing worn by a worker to minimize exposure to hazards and prevent illnesses and infection. Correct use of PPE can help prevent some exposures, but it should not take the place of other control measures, for example, screening, hand hygiene, use of barriers and physical distancing where possible.
PPE must be used alongside other control measures already in place. It is fixed to the face with straps, ties or elastic, either behind the head or with ear loops. Not all masks are suitable for both purposes, however, many masks that are suitable for use as PPE also work for source control. You need to consider how you will use the mask in your workplace and make sure to select a suitable type of mask.
Cloth masks are not PPE. To help you decide what is right for your workplace, see using masks in the workplace for more information. There are six questions you should think through as you develop your COVID covid 19 workplace safety plan. The information in this document will help you to think through the issues as you develop a plan for the unique situation in your workplace.
Provide clear information and instruction to your workers. Make sure they know what they need to do to protect themselves and others. Ensure they know how to follow the work and hygiene practices in your plan, including all new safety measures.
Set up or use your current internal communication systems to provide frequent reminders and updates. Use a variety of ways to reach your workers, such as:. Share new information as soon as possible. Screening helps keep infected workers and others from entering the workplace. This can reduce possible transmission in your workplace. Read more about workplace screening. Make sure all workers know to stay home if they have symptoms that are new, getting worse or unexplained for example, not caused by an existing condition and how to access health, job and financial supports that are available to them.
Know the symptoms and risk factors to look for and plan for how you will screen workers and others who enter your workplace. You must make sure that your screening process follows the instructions issued by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, including for screening after vaccination. Make sure any people working as screeners receive information and instruction on how to perform this work safely and what to do if a person must be excluded from the workplace.
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