Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

The Department of Natural Resources Canada conducted an audit of Health and Safety Programs in Laboratories in accordance with the Canada Labour Code (CLC), Part II, which obligates the Department to protect the health and safety of its approximately 5,000 employees. NRCan is one of the first government departments to perform such a comprehensive Health and Safety Program Audit which identifies improvements to the Program that should be sought through monitoring.

• Download the Audit of Health and Safety Program in Laboratories Report (pdf)
• Discuss the report

The “scope” of the audit was to review Departmental policies, procedures and activities “related to managing the Health ands Safety Program applied to laboratories” which “represent the highest area of risk in the Health and Safety Program. The audit was conducted between September 2006 and March 2007.

The attached Report/Audit provides information relating to the audit and identifies a number of recommendations and responses from management relating to those recommendations. Please review the attached Report and provide any comments you might have with respect to its content.