Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

20.3 The employer shall develop and post at a place accessible to all employees a work place violence prevention policy setting out, among other things, the following obligations of the employer:

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

• (b) to dedicate sufficient attention, resources and time to address factors that contribute to work place violence including, but not limited to, 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.