Joint health and safety committees — medium-sized project site
14.3(1)This section applies to a project site where
(a)
work on the site has continued for more than ninety days, and
(b)
thirty or more employees but fewer than five hundred employees work at the site.
14.3(2)A contractor who is responsible for a project site shall ensure that a joint health and safety committee is established within two weeks after the criteria set out in subsection (1) have been met.
14.3(3)A contractor shall ensure that a committee
(a)
is constituted of both employer and employee representatives, of which not less than half of the representatives are designated by employees in accordance with this section,
(b)
has at least two employee representatives designated by employees in accordance with this section, and
(c)
has at least one person designated by the contractor as the representative of the contractor.
14.3(4)Where an employer has six or more employees working at a project site,
(a)
the employer may designate a person to serve on the committee as an employer representative, and
(b)
the employees shall designate a person to serve on the committee as an employee representative.
14.3(5)Nothing in subsection (4) prevents employees who work for one employer from designating an employee who works for another employer to serve on the committee as an employee representative.
14.3(6)If the number of employees working at the site at any time exceeds four hundred and ninety-nine, the committee established under this section is dissolved, and the contractor shall establish a committee in accordance with section 14.4.
14.3(7)The documents, minutes, records and any other material of the committee that is dissolved become the documents, minutes, records and material of the committee that is subsequently established.