Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

97 The employer must develop and post at a place that is accessible to all employees a work place violence prevention policy setting out, among other things, the obligations of the employer, which include the following:

• (a) to provide a safe, healthy and violence-free work place;

• (b) to dedicate sufficient resources and time to address factors that contribute to work place violence including bullying, teasing, and abusive and other aggressive behaviour and to prevent and protect against it;

• (c) to communicate to its employees information in its possession about factors contributing to work place violence; and

• (d) to assist employees who have been exposed to work place violence.