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The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulation of British Columbia is the primary source of law governing workplace health and safety, which was most recently amended in 2016. It sets the standard to which workplaces must attain when inspected by WorkSafeBC, unless they are exempt from inspection, e.g. mines.
By method of compromise the 1917 act included regulations for medical aid. The regulations allowed finances to be collected from employees at a fixed rate per day while the employers would cover any outstanding costs. In short, the WCA of 1917 set up the framework for which amendments would be made, resulting in the WorkSafeBC that exists today ...
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health; Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Germany) Health and Safety Authority (Ireland) National Institute of Occupational Health (Norway) Swedish Work Environment Authority; Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (France)
WorkSafe is a term used for workplace health and safety organisations. Worksafe Inc, workers' health and safety non-profit organization in Oakland, California; WorkSafeBC, the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia; WorkSafe New Zealand, the workplace health and safety regulator in New Zealand
Workers Compensation Act, Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, section 4.22.1; Articles on Grant's Law at Global News "Grant’s Law" at British Columbia Labour Heritage Centre "Grant’s Law stripped down" at Surrey Now-Leader "Sit-in over Grant’s Law" at Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News
Crown corporations in BC are public-sector organizations established and funded by the Government of British Columbia to provide specialized goods and services to citizens. [1] They operate at varying levels of government control, depending on how they are defined, funded, and the kinds of services they provide.
CCOHS was created in 1978 by an Act of Parliament – Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act S.C., 1977–78, c. 29. The act was based on the belief that all Canadians had "...a fundamental right to a healthy and safe working environment".
In British Columbia, the occupational health and safety mandate (including the powers to make regulation, inspect and assess administrative penalties) is legislatively assigned to the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia . In most provinces, the workers' compensation board or commission remains concerned solely with insurance.