Translation of "Industrial Health and Safety Regulations " (English → French) :

Seasonal workers have the right to equal treatment with nationals of the host country as regards terms of employment, such as the minimum working age, working conditions (such as pay and dismissal, working hours, leave and holidays) and health and safety regulations.

Seasonal workers have the right to equal treatment with nationals of the host country as regards terms of employment, such as the minimum working age, working conditions (such as pay and dismissal, working hours, leave and holidays) and health and safety regulations.

If the commission determines that the information being provided to the worker is not in compliance with the applicable federal, provincial or territorial health and safety regulations, the claimant is ordered to make the necessary corrections and to provide the commission with a copy of the corrected health and safety documentation.

They shall also make the efforts necessary to provide the necessary facilities, in the national migration, tax, customs, health and safety regulations in force in the receiving country, for the material, data and equipment used in the activities covered by the Agreement.

The amendments before you were formulated to ensure that Part II continues to protect workers, to align federal legislation with the occupational health and safety legislation in other jurisdictions, and to modernize Part II's approach to occupational health and safety regulations.

TRAINING On the training front, the Commission plans : - to ask CEDEFOP to take these issues into account in its work on the training of instructors; - to encourage, under its draft programme on the training and preparation of young people for working life, joint initiatiives relating to training, the development of educational materials and improvements in the methods used to ensure health, hygiene and safety at work. SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED UNDERTAKINGS The Commissin will devote particular attention to the problems encountered by small business and consequently during the period 1988-91 intends : - to review the extent to which the ...[+++] existing regulations are understood and applied in this field, by studying a sample and medium-sized undertakings; - to carry out a study of the special rules and exemptions applicable to small business in national health and safety legislation and to assess the need for action and for the harmonization of legislation; - to study the influence of new work layouts on health, hygiene and safety in small business; - to study how health and safety regulations can be made readily understandable to owners of small businesses; - to prepare information manuals containing advice for those setting up small businesses; - to prepare safety training modules aimed at those setting up small businesses; - to develop a system to enable small businesses to have a rapid access to information on safety equipment and individual protective equipment.