Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/86-304)

10.15 The employer shall keep a written or computerized record of the instruction and training given to every employee and

• (a) make it readily available for examination by the employee; and

• (b) keep it for a period of two years after the employee ceases

  • (i) to handle or be exposed to the hazardous substance, or

  • (ii) to install, operate, maintain or repair the assembly of pipes.

• 10.16 (1) No person shall use a hazardous substance in a work place where it is reasonably practicable to substitute a substance for it that is not a hazardous substance.

• (2) Where a hazardous substance is to be used for any purpose in a work place and an equivalent substance that is less hazardous is available to be used for that purpose, the equivalent substance shall be substituted for the hazardous substance where reasonably practicable.

• 10.17 (1) Every ventilation system installed on or after January 1, 1997 to control the concentration of an airborne hazardous substance shall be so designed, constructed, installed, operated and maintained that

  • (a) the concentration of the airborne hazardous substance does not exceed the values and levels prescribed in subsections 10.19(1) and 10.20(1) and (2); and

  • (b) it meets the standards set out in

    • (i) Part 6 of the National Building Code,

    • (ii) the publication of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists entitled Industrial Ventilation, 20th edition, dated 1988, as amended from time to time, or

    • (iii) ANSI Standard ANSI Z9.2-1979 entitled Fundamentals Governing the Design and Operation of Local Exhaust Systems, dated 1979, as amended from time to time.

• (2) To the extent that is reasonably practicable, every ventilation system installed before January 1, 1997 to control the concentration of an airborne hazardous substance shall be maintained so as to meet the requirements set out in subsection (1).

• 10.18 (1) Before a ventilation system referred to in subsection 10.17(1) is operated for the first time in a work place, the employer shall set out in writing instructions pertaining to the inspection, testing and maintenance of that ventilation system.

• (2) The instructions referred to in subsection (1) shall specify the nature and frequency of inspections, tests and maintenance to be performed on the ventilation system.

• (3) The employer shall ensure that a qualified person

  • (a) carries out each inspection, testing and maintenance of the ventilation system in accordance with the instructions referred to in subsection (1); and

  • (b) makes and signs a report with respect to each inspection, test or maintenance work.

• (4) A report referred to in paragraph (3)(b) shall

  • (a) include the date of the inspection, test or maintenance work performed by the qualified person;

  • (b) identify the ventilation system that was inspected, tested or maintained; and

  • (c) set out the safety observations of the qualified person in respect of the ventilation system.

• (5) The employer shall keep at the work place at which the ventilation system is located a copy of

  • (a) the instructions referred to in subsection (1), and

  • (b) the most recent report referred to in paragraph (3)(b).

• (6) The employer shall give to every operator of a ventilation system the necessary instruction and training for the safe and proper use of the system.

• (7) The employer shall keep a written or computerized record of the instruction and training given to every operator of a ventilation system for as long as the operator remains in the employer’s employ.