Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

20.7 (1) The employer shall review the effectiveness of the work place violence prevention measures set out in sections 20.3 to 20.6 and update them whenever there is a change that compromises the effectiveness of those measures, but at least every three years.

(2) The review shall include consideration of the following:

• (a) work place conditions and work locations and activities;

• (b) work place inspection reports;

• (c) the employees’ reports and the employer’s records of investigations into work place violence or the risk of work place violence;

• (d) work place health and safety evaluations;

• (e) data on work place violence or the risk of work place violence in the employees’ work place or in similar work places;

• (f) the observations of the policy committee, or if there is no policy committee, the work place committee or the health and safety representative; and

• (g) other relevant information.

(3) The employer shall keep, for a period of three years, a written or electronic record of findings following the review of the work place violence prevention measures, and make it readily available for examination by a health and safety officer.