Duties in the Workplace

• Employers are required to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their workers.
• Employers are required, to the extent that it is reasonably practicable, to ensure that workers, students, volunteers and independent contractors are not exposed to harassment in the workplace.
• Employers are required to ensure that the activities of workers do not negatively affect the health, safety or welfare of other workers.

Employers in federally regulated workplaces must also ensure that the health and safety of their workers is protected. They must take measures to prevent and protect against harassment and violence in the work place, respond to occurrences of harassment and violence in the work place and offer support to employees affected by harassment and violence in the work place.

• Supervisors are responsible for ensuring the health and safety of worker’s under their direct supervision and direction.
• Supervisors must ensure that workers under their supervision are responsible for complying with health and safety standards.
• Supervisors are also required, to the extent that is reasonably practicable, to ensure that workers, students, volunteers and independent contractors under their direct supervision and direction are not exposed to harassment in the workplace.

• Workers have a duty to take reasonable care to protect their own health and safety.
• Workers have a duty to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of other workers who could be affected by their actions.
• Workers must comply with health and safety standards.
• Workers must refrain from causing or participating in the harassment of a worker, student, volunteer or independent contractor in the workplace.

Workers in federally regulated workplaces must also take all reasonable care to protect their own and other workers’ health and safety. Workers also have a duty to inform their employer about any situation that is likely to be hazardous to their health or safety or that of others in the workplace.