HOW DOES THE DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (DOHS) FIT INTO THE PICTURE?
Section 26 (see below) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act provides some guidelines around the monitoring and administration of workplace health and safety issues. While York University has established a department of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS) not all workplaces have such departments. Sometimes a Workplace Health and Safety Officer is hired for a workplace instead of a department. Additional duties of employers 26. (1) In addition to the duties imposed by section 25, an employer shall, (a) establish an occupational health service for workers as prescribed; (b) where an occupational health service is established as prescribed, maintain the same according to the standards prescribed; (c) keep and maintain accurate records of the handling, storage, use and disposal of biological, chemical or physical agents as prescribed; (d) accurately keep and maintain and make available to the worker affected such records of the exposure of a worker to biological, chemical or physical
