Compliance 1. Compliance Calendar: Compliance Calendar is our tool within Austin to track and maintain 100% conformance to company WHS policies and procedures. At a minimum, CACF WHS must adhere to both internal and external compliance requirements. Compliance Calendar is also used to ensure compliance to provincial regulations and legislation, as prescribed. 2. Policy Implementation Annual Review: Annual policy implementation audit and review are the site WHS team cadence to validate policies are implemented as prescribed with documented evidence or proof to confirm robust implementation of WHS policies and procedures. 3. Internal Compliance Audits: Internal compliance audits are conducted through Site Self-Assessments (SSA). SSA is Amazons system, located within Austin, whereby sites are to undergo an audit to verify conformance to company WHS Policies and procedures. 4. External Compliance Audits: in addition to internal compliance audits, Amazon also establishes an external compliance audit whereby sites are randomly selected for participation and are audited against company WHS policies and procedures as well as provincial regulations.
5. Provincial Regulatory Activity: In Canada, each province has their own regulatory agency where they enforce Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements (WSBC, MOL, OHS Alberta, CNESST) and are permitted entry into all workplaces to conduct investigations or site visits as they are notified of any OHS concern. Common examples of regulatory agency visits are worker/anonymous OHS complaints, work refusals, work stoppages, or random unscheduled visits as part of their OHS campaigns. All regulatory activities are communicated to Amazons internal Governance and Legal teams to advise on next steps, cooperate and support the regulatory visit to maintain amazon assets. One more example of regulatory encounters is due to critical injury notification. • Critical Injury Reporting – Critical Injury or Serious Injury reporting is a requirement under provincial regulations whereby the employer is required to notify the regulatory agency immediately when informed of or when a critical injury occurs at the workplace or on company premises. For definition of critical injury within each province please refer to appendix D of the WHS Regulatory Activity Procedure. 6. Training (Provincial Regulatory Requirements): In Canada, there are federal and provincial training requirements for workers (hourly workers) and supervisors(management). Such trainings are Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS), worker rights (right to know, participate, and refuse), Duties of the employee/supervisor/employer, Joint Health and Safety Awareness, and supervisor training (5-Steps Training MOL Requirement).
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