Every employer in Ontario has obligations under the Occupational Health & Safety Act or Canada Labour Code.

Employers must provide a safe and well-maintained workplace.
Failure to comply may lead to serious fines, orders to comply and even shutting down of projects. There are laws - the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), the Canada Labour Code (CLC), Technical Safety Standards Act (TSSA) among others - which mandate this.

In a few hours, a qualified Priority inspector could save your company thousands of dollars.

Priority can come to your place of business and quickly identify areas of need to bring your workplace up to proper standards. Here are some of the ways we can help:

• Employers must have an up-to-date health and safety policy and program.
Priority has written hundreds of policies and programs for companies like yours and can provide a policy that meets your needs – or update your existing policy. Find out more.

• Employers must provide safety training and supervision for workers. That training must address the hazards present in the workplace.
Priority provides some of the best training available in the province based on our years of service. We can also work with supervisors to help them understand and control hazards in your workplace. Find out more about our general & specialized training.

• Employers must provide payments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) for insurance coverage premiums for workers or employees.
Employers are required to submit to financial audits by the WSIB upon request, to “verify” payroll records, insurable earnings, worker status, business activity, classification, claims, and first-aid regulation compliance. Priority is available to do a pre-audit analysis to verify status and compliance with WSIB regulations. Find out more.

• Employers must realize that when a WSIB employee enters your workplace they will make a report on what he/she saw there.
Your company must potentially prepare for questions about claims and for an audit by the WSIB’s other branch of auditors, the Workwell auditor - who audits for health and safety compliance through examination of your written health and safety programs. Find out more.

Contact Priority today, and let's get started!