Departments of Labour

I. W. Mault, Manitoba Department of Labour A. W. Meiring, State of Indiana, Fire and Building Boiler and Pressure Vessel Division... 

The labels which are the subject of this paper are those to be put on products to let the user know how to handle them safely and correctly. It covers the regulations issued by three different US government agencies the Department of Labour, the Department of Transportation and the Consumer Product Safety Commission US,DEPT.OF LABOR US,DEPT.OF TRANSPORTATION US,CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION... 

Regulations (Standards - 29CFR) Acrylonitrile - 1910.1045, US Department of Labour, www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show document p id=10065 p table=standards... 

E.W.Dryson, and J.A.Ogden, Chronic Organic Solvent Neurotoxicty Diagnostic Criteria. Department of Labour, Wellington, 1992. 

Manitoba Department of Labour, The Power Engineers Act, Manitoba Regulation Number 186/92, 1992 April. 

The Dangerous Goods Division of the Department of Labour controlled all of these materials by specifying the construction of buildings and segregation from other activities. They also controlled the containers and tanks used for storing flammables or explosives. The compliance was usually in line with international practice such as UN codes. 

United States Department of Labour, Concepts and Techniques of Machine Safeguarding, OSHA 3067, US Government Printing Office, Washington (1980)... 

The preceding discussion has implications for the way in which compensation and prevention agencies are organised. Workers compensation and OHS were treated in Australia until very recently as largely unrelated concerns, administered by quite separate agencies. OHS legislation was administered in most states by an industrial inspectorate located in a department of labour or industrial relations, while compensation legislation was normally administered by a compensation board, not part of any such department. 

Victorian DOL 1990, Workplace Fatalities lS>85-89, Melbourne Department of Labour... 

Department of Labour Association, Australia and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine... 

Department of Labour Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Health and Safety Executive assisted by specialist agencies (e g. nuclear) and local goverrunent Policy Health and Safety Commission... 

Figure 10.1 Source Approved Code of Practice for Demolition, pubiished by Occupationai Safety and Heaith Service, Department of Labour, Weiiington, New Zeaiand, Crown copyright 1994.

Government of New Zealand, Department of Labour. 2013. Manufacturing sector plan to 2013. Auckland, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment, Government of New Zealand, http //www.dol.govt.nz/whss/sector-plans/ manufacturing/Ol.asp, downloaded May 16, 2014. 

Establish possible organizational structures, roles and responsibilities, and authority between various stakeholders, regulatory authorities, and decision-makers including Ministry for the Environment, Department of Labour, Ministry of Health, and within local authorities Emergency managers... 

DoL (2011) A changing landscape the impact of the earthquakes on Christchurch workplaces. Labour Immigration Research Centre, Department of Labour, Wellington... 

The construction safety programme is an adjunct of the Department of Labour of the Government of Ontario. However, the Department itself is not actively involved in accident prevention programmes. Instead it restricts its activities to the administration of the Construction Safety Act (1961-62), and the Trench and Hoist Acts, which are the main tools with which Ontario construction safety inspectors work. Under these Acts, enforcement of safety standards is entrusted to municipal safety inspectors, who receive guidance in their work from the Department. In addition to the Acts, municipalities are encouraged to enact further regulations, inasmuch as the Acts set forth only minimum requirements. 

Mr Jelly referred to the Trench Excavators Protection Act. This is enforced by up to 800 municipal employees, many of whom could have other associated duties within the municipal engineering department. The training and guiding of these men in performing this work is the responsibility of the Construction Safety Branch of the Provincial Department of Labour. 

In reply to Mr Forrest, it would appear that the Construction Safety Association of Ontario bias towards education was evident in the Paper. The Construction Safety Association of Ontario places reliance on education because it is chief in importance in their terms of reference. The Construction Safety Branch of the Department of Labour puts reliance on enforcement because that is paramount in their terms of reference. There is a real need for both efforts. 

I have sympathy for the dilemma of Mr Balme. It is quite a prevalent concept that a fistful of statutory instruments, or regulations, is enough to guide and educate a construction group. In Ontario the existence of the Construction Safety Association of Ontario and the Construction Safety Branch of the Department of Labour means that accident prevention education is provided by the one, in addition to the fistful of regulations provided by the other. 

The remarks by Mr Cornish prompt reflections on the manner in which the Construction Safety Association of Ontario works with the Construction Safety Branch of the Department of Labour. They have a very healthy respect for each other. It has become the understanding that the purpose of the Construction Safety Association of Ontario is to create an informed industry in matters regarding accident prevention. It then becomes the privilege of the informed industry to work with the Construction Safety Branch of the Department of Labour in developing informed legislation. 

The processes by which this admirable relationship are effected are as follows. When a particular part of the construction industry has concern for its accident experience it will, through associations or ad hoc groups using the Construction Safety Association of Ontario as secretariat, define and document their concern. The results of such practically orientated research form the substance of briefs to the Department of Labour by which informed legislation is developed. At the same time, the results of such research automatically become part of the curriculum of the Construction Safety Association of Ontario in its educational efforts with the entire construction force. It is encouraging that such ad hoc groups are not stimulated alone by penalties, but by a sincere desire for self-improvement in, or achievement of, better accident prevention procedures. 

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