Workplace emergency procedures

Keeping the office ready for a major emergency

Colin Gibson

Question: Are emergency procedures (for events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods) considered part of an employer’s obligations to make the workplace as safe as possible under occupational health and safety legislation? If our emergency procedures aren’t updated, does that create occupational health and safety liability, even if the everyday operation of the workplace is safe?

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