Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/86-304)

16.11 Before assigning employees to a workplace, the employer shall

• (a) ensure that for that workplace there is an ambulance service or other suitable means of transporting an injured or ill employee to a health unit or medical treatment facility; and

• (b) provide for that workplace a means of quickly summoning the ambulance service or other suitable means of transportation.

• 16.12 (1) An organization that wants to obtain the approval of the Minister for offering courses in first aid shall apply for it in writing to the Minister.

• (2) The application shall be accompanied by a description of the proposed courses.

• (3) If the application is for approval for offering a course in advanced first aid, including wilderness first aid, in relation to a particular work place, the application shall also be accompanied by a report from the employer at that work place, prepared in consultation with the work place committee or health and safety representative, that identifies the first aid training requirements for the work place, having regard to the particular nature of that work place.

• (4) The Minister shall approve an application by an organization to offer courses in basic and standard first aid if the organization’s training program contains the elements and meets the criteria set out in Schedule V to this Part.

• (5) The Minister shall approve an application by an organization to offer courses in advanced first aid, including wilderness first aid, in relation to a particular workplace if the organization’s training program is appropriate for that workplace, having regard to the training requirements identified in the report referred to in subsection (3).

• (6) Subject to subsections (7) and (8), a letter of approval from the Minister is valid for a period of five years starting on the date of issue.

• (7) The Minister may suspend or cancel the approval of an organization under subsection (4) if the organization’s training program no longer contains the elements or meets the criteria set out in Schedule V to this Part.

• (8) The Minister may suspend or cancel the approval of an organization under subsection (5) in relation to a workplace if the organization’s training program is no longer appropriate for that workplace.

• (9) Basic and standard first aid certificates and certifications of completion of advanced first aid courses, including wilderness first aid courses, are valid for a maximum of three years, starting on their date of issue.

• 16.13 (1) If first aid is required by this Part to be rendered, the first aid attendant who renders the first aid shall

  • (a) enter in a first aid record the following information:

    • (i) the date and time of the reporting of the injury or illness,

    • (ii) the full name of the injured or ill employee,

    • (iii) the date, time and location of the occurrence of the injury or illness,

    • (iv) a brief description of the injury or illness,

    • (v) a brief description of the first aid rendered, if any,

    • (vi) a brief description of arrangements made for the treatment or transportation of the injured or ill employee, and

    • (vii) the names of witnesses, if applicable; and

  • (b) sign the first aid record beneath the information entered in accordance with paragraph (a).

• (2) The information referred to in subsection (1) shall be entered

  • (a) if first aid was rendered to an employee at a remote workplace detached from the main party or on a snowmobile or other small vehicle, in the first aid record stored in the first aid kit at the site of the main party or work site; and

  • (b) in any other case, in the first aid record stored in the first aid kit.

• (3) The employer shall keep a first aid record containing information entered in accordance with subsection (2) for a period of two years beginning on the date of that entry.

• (4) Persons with access to first aid records shall keep the information contained in the records confidential, except as required for the purposes of meeting reporting obligations under Part XV.

• (5) On receiving a written request from a workers’ compensation authority for the province where the workplace is located or a medical practitioner, the employer shall provide an employee with a copy of the first aid record pertaining to the employee’s treatment.

• (6) The employer shall maintain a record of the expiry dates of the first aid certificates of the first aid attendants and make it readily available to them.