Occupational Health and Safety Provisions of the Canada Labour Code (Part II)

Approximately 19,000 employers and approximately 1,300,000 employees (8% of all Canadian workers) are subject to Part II of the Canada Labour Code. This includes full-time and part-time employees, and seasonal, temporary, and casual employees and excludes military members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Federal Jurisdiction Businesses and Industries include:

Interprovincial and International Transportation

• Railways
• Road transportation – trucks and buses
• Airports, aerodromes, airlines and aircraft operations
• Marine navigation and shipping, port services and maintenance of waterways
• Ferries, tunnels, canals and bridges
• Pipelines – oil and gas

Grain

• Grain elevators
• Feed and seed mills
• Feed warehouses and grain-seed cleaning plants

Banking

• For example, Bank of Canada

Uranium

• Uranium mining and processing
• Atomic energy

Telecommunications and broadcasting

• Radio
• television
• telephone
• internet

Federal Public Service and Parliamentary precinct

• Persons employed by the Public Service, federal Crown corporations, and Parliament (for example Senate, House of Commons, Library, etc.)

First Nations Band Councils and Indigenous Self-Governments

• Certain community services