Ontario site safety inspection report requirements

What Ontario requires

• A supervisor, or a competent person the supervisor appoints, inspects all machinery and equipment at the project, including fire extinguishing equipment, magazines, electrical installations, communication systems, sanitation and medical facilities, buildings and other structures, temporary supports and means of access and egress, at least once a week or more often as the supervisor decides, to make sure they do not endanger any workerO. Reg. 213/91, s. 14 (3), (4)
• A constructor appoints a supervisor for every project where five or more workers will work at the same time, and an employer of five or more workers on a project appoints a supervisor for them; the supervisor supervises the work at all times, personally or through a competent assistant; a competent person performs the tests and observations needed to detect hazardous conditionsO. Reg. 213/91, ss. 14 (1), (2), (5), 15
• On a project with a joint health and safety committee (20 or more workers regularly employed, expected to last three months or more) or a health and safety representative (more than five workers and no committee), the designated worker member or the representative inspects the physical condition of the workplace at least once a monthOccupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.1, ss. 8 (1), (6), 9 (1) (a), (2) (a), (26) · Guide for health and safety committees and representatives (ontario.ca)
• Where a worker may fall more than 3 metres, more than 1.2 metres on a path used by wheelbarrows or similar equipment, into operating machinery, into water or another liquid, into or onto a hazardous substance or object, or through an opening, the worker is protected by a guardrail system or, if that is not practicable, by the highest ranked practicable method: travel restraint, a fall restricting system, a fall arrest system, or a safety netO. Reg. 213/91, ss. 26, 26.1 (1), (2)
• A guardrail system is used where a worker has access to the perimeter or an open side of a floor (including a mezzanine or balcony), a bridge surface, a roof while formwork is in place, or a scaffold or other work platform, runway or ramp, and may fall 2.4 metres or more; openings in a work surface are guarded by a guardrail or by a covering that is secured, identified as covering an opening and strong enoughO. Reg. 213/91, s. 26.3 (1), (2)
• A worker who may use a fall protection system is adequately trained in its use, with oral and written instructions from a competent person, and meets the working at heights training requirements of O. Reg. 297/13; the trainer prepares and signs a written training record with the worker's name and training dates, available to an inspector on requestO. Reg. 213/91, s. 26.2
• Every worker wears protective headwear and protective footwear at all times when on a projectO. Reg. 213/91, ss. 22 (1), 23 (1)
• All vehicles, machinery, tools and equipment are maintained so they do not endanger a worker, and none is used while it is defective or hazardous, when weather or other conditions make its use likely to endanger a worker, or while being repaired or serviced unless the work requires it to runO. Reg. 213/91, s. 93 (1), (2)
• The walls of an excavation are held up by a support system, except, among others, an excavation less than 1.2 metres deep, one no worker has to enter, one cut in sound and stable rock, and walls sloped as the regulation sets out for the soil typeO. Reg. 213/91, s. 234 (1), (2)