Employees
As an employee, you have a key role to play in preventing work-related injuries and diseases. First, you have to be careful and take the necessary precautions to ensure your own health and safety and that of any colleagues who may be affected by your work or activities.
- You enjoy rights under the Canada Labour Code: the right to know, the right to participate and the right to refuse dangerous work.
- You also have duties with respect to your health and safety and that of your colleagues.
- If you are pregnant or nursing, find out about your rights in Pamphlet 5.
- Find out how the Labour Program handles a health and safety complaint.
Nobody knows a workplace better than the people who work in it, so Part II of the Code gives the workplace parties—the employers and employees—a strong role in identifying and resolving health and safety concerns.
The provisions of the Code are designed to strengthen employers' and employees' self-reliance in dealing with occupational health and safety issues and thereby making workplaces safer.
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