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Provides comprehensive occupational health services and information

Diagnostics

• Compiles detailed analysis on work history
• Provides medical examination
• Determines whether workplace caused health issues

Group
Supports workplace joint occupational health committees and groups of workers by:

• Conducting an analysis of health in workplaces
• Reporting identified problems and issues back to joint occupational health committees and groups

Inquiry

• Answers questions regarding workplace occupational health issues

Education

• Conducts presentations on occupational health
• Provides various resources related to health and safety such as hazard check lists

Research

• Participates in various research studies
• Collects statistics on related issues
• Maintains a Cluster Registry of Occupational Disease and Reproductive Hazards

• Operates as one of the four health and safety associations in Ontario

Provides the following services to businesses:

• Advice and information
• Classroom and online training programs
• Ergonomic assessments
• Health and safety audits
• Industrial hygiene testing
• On-site consultations

Provides enforcement and information on Occupational Health and Safety Act and regulations made under the Employment Standards Act through call centre.

COVID-19 -- Closed to in-person service until further notice; call office to inquire about programs and services offered virtually

For information and resources for employers to ensure safety of workers during the pandemic, click here https://covid19.wsps.ca

Provides information resources, consulting and expertise, training and industry-specific health and safety products to businesses in the agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors

• health and safety programs, including workplace Joint Health and Safety Committee certification training, and online and self-paced learning for individuals and groups
• networking and conferences for health and safety professionals

Enforces Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations including construction, industrial and mining health and safety, and health care and residential facilities workplace safety

• inspects work sites
• investigates refusals to work under unsafe conditions
• investigates fatalities and serious accidents
• promotes education and prevention

Community legal clinic

• advice and representation
• advocacy
• research and consultation for individuals
• community education
• law reform
• referrals to union organizers
• outreach, particularly to small workplaces with immigrant workforces
• funded by Legal Aid Ontario

Administers and enforces the Employment Standards Act, 2000

For a guide to the Employment Standards Act, 2000, CLICK HERE

For information on the Infectious Disease Emergency Leave CLICK HERE

Provides for minimum terms and conditions of employment:

• sets out maximum number of hours that can be worked in a day or week, minimum daily, weekly or biweekly rest periods, and rules for overtime pay
• establishes the minimum wage rates
• General rates, Jan 1, 2022: $15.00 per hour, increasing to $15.50 per hour Oct 1, 2022
• Students under 18 years, Jan 1, 2022: $14.10 per hour, increasing to $14.60 Oct 1, 2022
• establishes vacation pay and paid public holidays -- New Year's Day, Family Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, Boxing Day
• prohibits unequal pay for equal work on the basis of sex
• prohibits discrimination on bases such as sex, age or marital status in employer-provided benefit plans
• establishes entitlement to various categories of leave such as sick leave, pregnancy and parental leave, caregiver leave, or personal emergency leave
• 8 days unpaid emergency leave per calendar year (3 days for personal illness; 3 days for family responsibilities such as illness of child or spouse; 2 days for bereavement leave)
• forbids lie detector testing
• obliges employers to provide notice of termination or pay in lieu
• obliges employers to provide severance pay to terminated employees when applicable
• permits retail store workers to refuse work on Sunday and public holidays under particular circumstances
• protects the rights of domestic workers and homeworkers

COVID-19 -- offices are open but call ahead to ensure someone is available to assist you; call 1-800-387-0750 Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm or use online services at wsib.ca/en/onlineservices

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Promotes workplace health and safety

• administers no-fault workplace insurance for employers and their workers
• disability benefits for workers who are injured on the job or contract an occupational disease, or who have sustained sudden, traumatic mental stress or chronic stress injury that is the result of a work-related stressor (conditions apply, call for details)
• facilitates return to work
• administers survivor benefits for spouse, child or other dependant of a worker who died as the result of workplace injury or disease
• financial incentives for safe employers

Investigations -- call 1-888-745-3237 or email sileads@wsib.on.ca to report suspected cases of fraud or non-compliance

During the COVID-19 pandemic, this organization is working remotely without telephone service. To contact please visit the website to access options to contact staff with your health and safety questions, or for assistance with our products and services. They have also put a hold on physical product purchases and shipments but there is access to search fact sheets, access pandemic resources, and browse online products and services.

Advances workplace health and safety by providing information, training, education, and management systems that support health and safety programs and the prevention of injury and illness. Safety InfoLine is a free, confidential, person-to-person information service about workplace health and safety available to all Canadians.

Provides occupational health and safety training and information services.

Independent, representational, quasi-judicial tribunal

• responsible for the interpretation and application of the Canada Labor Code, Part I, Industrial Relations, and certain provisions of Part II, Occupational Health and Safety.
• responsible for the interpretation and administration of Part II (Professional Relations) of the Status of the Artist Act.

Provides industry-specific health and safety products, training and consulting services

Provides national leadership in safety through information, education and collaboration

Courses:

• Babysitting Training Course
• Home Alone Course
• Defensive Driving Course
• Professional Driver Improvement course
• the 55 Alive Mature Driver course
• Gearing Up Motorcycle Training Course
• Courses on ATV, UTV, ARGO and snowmobile

Online learning:

• Green Defensive Driving Courses
• Motorcycle Safety
• Extensive catalogue of Occupational Health and Safety Courses: Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), including:
  • Fire Safety
  • Transportation of Dangerous Goods
  • Workplace Violence and Harassment

Public Awareness Campaigns: Annual campaigns with vital preventive information on:

• farm safety
• summer safety
• road safety
• school safety
• community safety and crime prevention
• seniors' safety
• home fire safety
• safe driving