Occupational Health & Safety

The primary goal of the Occupational Health and Safety Division is accident and illness prevention. OHS recognizes that all workers have a fundamental right to a workplace that neither impairs their health nor imperils their safety. This is achieved by working with stakeholders to establish, promote an enforce workplace practices, standards and procedures.

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• What’s New
  • The Provincial Government’s new Radiation Health and Safety Act, 2021 and the updated regulations will take effect on December 2, 2024. The legislation governs the inspection, installation, use, maintenance and registration of equipment that produces radiation such as X-ray machines and CT scanners. The new Act and regulations strengthen existing worker health and safety standards for the operation or installation of radiation equipment. It also formalizes processes and procedures for all workers involved in either the operation or installation of radiation equipment.
  • In March 2024, a number of amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act were proclaimed. Effective March 1, 2024:
    • Employers with 20 or more workers at a worksite will require and occupational health and safety committees and a program.
    • Employers with fewer than 20 workers at a worksite require an occupational health and safety policy and worker representative.
    • Where there are fewer than six workers at a worksite, the employer is to appoint a workplace health and safety designate.

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    Digital Government and Service NL
    100 Prince Phillip Drive
    P.O. Box 8700
    St. John’s, NL A1B 4J6
    Tel: 1-709-729-4834
    DGSNLInfo@gov.nl.ca

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