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CanadaHarassment Training Requirements

Each Canadian province’s respective occupational health and safety laws require that employers train both supervisors and workers on recognizing, preventing, and reporting harassment annually. While each province has its own law with varying language, they all require training that include information around reporting violent harassment.

Creating a culture of compliance means moving past the bare minimum, and implementing a training program that truly engages minds and changes behaviors. Emtrain’s Canadian Workplace Harassment Training Course includes workplace violence prevention lessons, and we also strongly recommend that you dive deeper with Emtrain’s Workplace Violence Prevention Training Course, along with other compliance and culture training.

Alberta

Occupational Health and Safety Code:

391 An employer must ensure that workers are trained in:

  • (a) the recognition of violence and harassment,
  • (b) the policies, procedures and workplace arrangements that the employer has developed and implemented to eliminate or control the hazards of violence and harassment,
  • (c) the appropriate response to violence and harassment, including procedures for obtaining assistance, and
  • (d) the procedures for reporting, investigating and documenting incidents of violence and harassment.

Workers Compensation Act, Section 21(2)(b) and (e):

WorkSafeBC considers that reasonable steps by an employer to prevent where possible, or otherwise minimize, workplace bullying and harassment include the following:

(f) training supervisors and workers on:

  • i. recognizing the potential for bullying and harassment;
  • ii. responding to bullying and harassment; and
  • iii. procedures for reporting, and how the employer will deal with incidents

Occupational Health and Safety Act
(O.C. 91-1035)
Regulation 91-191

374.4 (1)An employer shall establish a written code of practice for harassment at the place of employment to ensure the health and safety of employees to the extent possible.

374.7(1)An employer shall implement a training program in respect of the codes of practice established under sections 374.2 and 374.4 for each employee and for each supervisor who is responsible for an employee.

Occupational Health and Safety Act
(O.C. 2019-017)
Regulation 2019

24.2 (1) An employer shall participate in training relating to harassment prevention.

(2) An employer shall provide training to employees regarding harassment prevention and the harassment prevention plan.

Occupational Health and Safety Act:

Program, violence

32.0.2 (1) An employer shall develop and maintain a program to implement the policy with respect to workplace violence required under clause 32.0.1 (1) (a). 2009, c. 23, s. 3.

(2) An employer shall provide a worker with,

  • (a) information and instruction that is appropriate for the worker on the contents of the policy and program with respect to workplace violence
Information and instruction, harassment
32.0.8 An employer shall provide a worker with
  • (a) information and instruction that is appropriate for the worker on the contents of the policy and program with respect to workplace harassment

An act respecting occupational health and safety

51. Every employer must take the necessary measures to protect the health and ensure the safety and physical well-being of his worker. He must, in particular,

  • (a) the recognition of violence and harassment,
  • (b) the policies, procedures and workplace arrangements that the employer has developed and implemented to eliminate or control the hazards of violence and harassment,
  • (c) the appropriate response to violence and harassment, including procedures for obtaining assistance, and
  • (d) the procedures for reporting, investigating and documenting incidents of violence and harassment.

Protected Characteristics in Canada

  • Race
  • National or ethnic Origin
  • Color
  • Religion
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Gender Identity or Expression
  • Marital Status
  • Family Status
  • Genetic Characteristics
  • Disability

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