Part 3 (Div.3 – 115(2)(f)) of the Workers Compensation Act says that employers are required to make a copy of the Workers Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation readily available for review by the employer’s workers. There are online versions, but they cannot be printed.
If you have a computer dedicated for use by employees, you can put links to these resources on the desktop and be compliant.
- Occupational Health and Safety Regulation: https://www.worksafebc.com/en/law-policy/occupational-health-safety/searchable-ohs-regulation/ohs-regulation
- Workers Compensation Act: http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/96492_00
If you do not want to do that, you need to purchase hard copies of these documents from Crown Publishers and place them in a location in your workplace that employees can easily access, like a lunch or break room.
You can purchase these items online and have them shipped from:
- Occupational Health and Safety Regulation – $67.25
- Workers Compensation Act – $22.95
Finally, you must permanently post the location of these reference books (or computer) so that employees know where to go to read them. WorkSafeBC provides a posting for this purpose – Notice to Workers (Act and Regulation).