The safety training your crew has to hold.

Every worker in Ontario must complete a basic occupational health and safety awareness training program, and the regulation says when: as soon as practicable (s. 1 (1)). Every supervisor must complete the supervisor version within one week of performing work as a supervisor (s. 2 (1)). The Ministry publishes both programs and they are free: Worker health and safety awareness in four steps and Supervisor health and safety awareness in five steps. You may use another program as long as it covers what s. 1 (3) and s. 2 (3) require.

The Ministry does not store certificates or keep a record for you. The employer maintains the record of who has completed it (s. 4 (1)), gives a worker written proof on request (s. 4 (3)), and still has to do so if the worker asks within six months of leaving (s. 4 (5)).

Sources: O. Reg. 297/13 on e-Lawsontario.ca: Health and safety training

This one applies to workers on construction projects who are required under O. Reg. 213/91 to use a listed method of fall protection: travel restraint, fall restricting, fall arrest, safety nets, and a safety belt or harness with a lanyard tied off (s. 6). Before such a worker may use fall protection, the employer must ensure they have completed a working at heights program that is approved by the Chief Prevention Officer and provided by a training provider approved by the Chief Prevention Officer (s. 7 (2)). A course from an unapproved provider does not count, however good it was.

The training is valid for three years from the date of successful completion (s. 8 (1)). Ontario's page on the program states the rest plainly: after 3 years, workers need to successfully complete a refresher program to keep their training valid for another 3 years. The employer's record must carry four things: the worker's name, the approved provider's name, the completion date and the name of the approved program (s. 10 (2)), and a copy of the worker's proof of completion issued by the Chief Prevention Officer counts as that record (s. 10 (3)). Newfoundland and Labrador fall protection training is accepted in place of it (s. 7 (1) (b)).

Sources: O. Reg. 297/13 on e-Lawsontario.ca: Training: working at heights

Every worker who works with, or may be exposed in the course of their work to, a hazardous product must be instructed in the contents of labels and safety data sheets and what they mean, the procedures for safe use, storage, handling and disposal, the procedures when fugitive emissions are present, and what to do in an emergency involving the product (s. 7 (1)). The program has to be developed and implemented for the employer's workplace, not bought off a shelf and filed (s. 7 (2)).

Be careful with the number you have heard. Reg. 860 sets no validity period and no annual renewal; the duty in s. 7 (3) is that the instruction results in the workers being able to use the information to protect their health and safety. Many employers refresh it yearly or when the products on site change, and that is a sound practice, but it is a practice and not a number in the regulation.

Sources: Reg. 860 (WHMIS) on e-Laws

A joint health and safety committee is required at a workplace at which twenty or more workers are regularly employed (s. 9 (2) (a)), and also where an order under s. 33 is in effect or a designated-substance regulation applies (s. 9 (2) (b) and (c)). Once you have a committee, the constructor or employer must ensure that at least one member of the committee representing the constructor or employer and at least one member representing workers are certified members (s. 9 (12)).

Certification comes from completing an approved program, Part One and Part Two, from an approved provider. Ontario's page on it states the validity: your joint health and safety committee certification is valid for 3 years after the successful completion of an approved JHSC Part two training program, and a refresher must be completed within three years of certification, or of the last refresher, to keep it valid. Members hold a record issued by the Chief Prevention Officer as proof.

Sources: OHSA s. 9 on e-Lawsontario.ca: Training for JHSC members

First aid is the one requirement on this page that sits under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act rather than the OHSA, and the level of certificate it demands scales with the number of workers on a shift. Up to five workers in a shift: a first aid station in the charge of a worker holding a valid Emergency First Aid certificate or its equivalent (s. 8). Six to fifteen: a valid Standard First Aid certificate (s. 9). Sixteen to 199: Standard First Aid, plus a stretcher and two blankets (s. 10). Two hundred or more: a first aid room (s. 11).

On a construction, repair or demolition site the station goes in the time office, or in a vehicle or building on site if there is no time office (s. 14). The station must display the valid first aid certificates of the trained workers on duty (s. 1 (1)), the employer records every first aid treatment given (s. 5), and the boxes are inspected at least quarterly with the inspection card signed and dated (s. 6).

Sources: Reg. 1101 (First Aid Requirements) on e-Laws

On a project, the employer must ensure that every worker who enters a confined space or who performs related work receives adequate training to perform the work safely, in accordance with the relevant plan (s. 9.1 (2)). In workplaces other than projects the duty is s. 8 (1): adequate training for safe work practices in confined spaces and for related work, including training in the recognition of hazards associated with confined spaces. Either way the training is tied to the written confined space plan for that site, which is why it cannot be a generic card.

Sources: O. Reg. 632/05 (Confined Spaces) on e-Laws