When is a joint health and safety committee required on a farming operation?
Not all farms will require a joint health and safety committee. Farms will require a joint health and safety committee if there are 20 or more workers who are regularly employed and have duties related to one or more of the following operations: • greenhouse, • mushroom, • dairy, • hog, • cattle, and • poultry. These six types of farms were selected because they typically hire workers on a year-round basis. The threshold of 20 workers has been in the OHSA since it first came into force in 1979.
