ABOUT GENIVAR
Health & safety
Occupational Health & Safety
D – Rights of the Employee
As well as the particular rights given to the employees by the Occupational Health and Safety Act in each province, these national laws recognize to employees the following basic rights:
• Right of be informed of the possible dangers to which he could be exposed. It gives him the right to have training courses and information on tools, equipment, working conditions, used methods and dangerous substances.
• Right to participate in the identification and elimination of accident and occupational diseases risks on workplace and in health and safety activities. He also has the right to indicate dangerous practices and conditions.
• Right to refuse to work if he judges that it entails dangers for his health and safety or the one of other colleague, if he has reasonable motives to think that his workplace is dangerous for him or for an other employee.
• However, the employee cannot exercise his right to refuse if the danger is a regular condition of his work.
E – Responsibilities of the Contractors
• General contractors, subcontractors and general suppliers who made works for GENIVAR, accept, in accordance with the conditions stipulated in their contract, to respect the laws and by-laws governing health and safety of environment and workplaces as GENIVAR administrative policies and directives to this effect.
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