Urge for Safety Consulting after Alberta OHS Act!

Safety Consulting is more than a bandwagon to implement the law. Frequent changes in the legal suits may dehydrate company’s resources. To keep watch on each move may cost you your business. Safety consulting services can do better for your company. Like changes to OHS in Ontario & Saskatchewan, minor changes were also brought to OHS, Alberta. It sounds like news for Alberta Safety, as the state would be affected to the greater extent. I’m referring to the revisions of Dec, 2012. Change should never go unnoticed! Bill 6 is the surprise that has contoured OHS Act. Alterations are seen in the following fields:

• Communication Vehicle: It is permitted to send & receive regulations & orders to a person or authority or organization through electronic means, i.e. email or fax as per the proposed revisions.
• Administrative Appeals: Besides OHS order appeals, the OHS Council has been given the accountability to hear & execute the administrative penalty appeals as well.
• Third Party Penalties: Under the Provincial Offenses Procedures Act, an offender is liable to pay fine proportional to the outstanding sentence it owes to a third party.
• Administrative Penalties: For OHS violations, the department has the power to impose heavy fines like $10,000 penalty per violation per day. The rule holds for workers, employers, suppliers and contractors.
• Contractor: This revision would mainly affect Alberta Construction Safety! It says that wherever either two or more than two employers work together even with a minor risk, a prime contractor is the pre-requisite.
• Identity: Once again, for the sake of Alberta Construction Safety! Inspectors are given the power to ask any employer to identify the employees or employee to identify the employers in a defined workplace. Intervening the inspection would be considered as serious offend.

This piece of information is mainly to update the knowledge bank of safety consulting services providers as well as their clients. The offense is hard to digest for construction companies majorly. Wear Alberta Construction Safety Hat to escape all the odds of penalties.