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Pre-Start Health & Safety Review (PSR) (PSHSR)

The Ontario Ministry of Labour PSR Guidelines

The employer is responsible for ensuring that all requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and regulations are complied with in the workplace. Even where a Pre-Start Health and Safety Review is not required or an exemption from the requirements of section 7 applies, the employer must ensure that workers will be protected when they use any apparatus, structure, protective element or process in the workplace.

The 8 circumstances that require a PSHSR are:

  1. Flammable liquids are located or dispensed in a building, room or area.
  2. Any of the following are used as protective elements in connection with an apparatus:
    • Safeguarding devices that signal the apparatus to stop, including but not limited to safety light curtains and screens, area scanning safeguarding systems, radio frequency systems and capacitance safeguarding systems, safety mat systems, two-hand control systems, two-hand tripping systems and single or multiple beam systems
    • Barrier guards that use interlocking mechanical or electrical safeguarding devices
  3. Materials, articles or things are placed or stored on a structure that is a rack or stacking structure
  4. A process involves a risk of ignition or explosion that creates a condition of imminent hazard to a person's health or safety.
  5. The use of a dust collector involves a risk of ignition or explosion that creates a condition of imminent hazard to a person's health or safety.
  6. A factory produces aluminum or steel or is a foundry that melts material or handles molten material
  7. The construction, addition, installation or modification relates to a lifting device, travelling crane or automobile hoist
  8. A process uses or produces a substance that may result in the exposure of a worker in excess of any occupational exposure limit set out in Regulation 833, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845 or 846 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990

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