Workers Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island
Safety is everyone's responsibility. Click on one of the topics below to find out what you can do to stay safe and avoid injury on the job.
Ammonia Carbon Monoxide Compressed Gas Confined Spaces Contaminants Diving Electricity
Impairment in the workplace can result when workers ingest alcohol, prescription medication, recreational drugs and other impairing substances.
Other Hazards
Safety is everyone's responsibility. Click on one of the topics below to find out what you can do to stay safe and avoid injury on the job.
Ammonia Carbon Monoxide Compressed Gas Confined Spaces Contaminants Diving Electricity
- Electricity - OHS App
- Lockout Tag Out - OHS App
- Farming Safely Around Electrical Power Lines Hazard Alert
- Lock-out Tag-out Hazard Alert
- Working Safely Around Electrical Power Lines - Poster
- Ergonomics - OHS App
- Manual Lifting - OHS App
- Rules of Lifting Poster
- Adjusting and Adapting Your Workstation (hrsb.ca)
- Back Talk: An Owner’s Manual (WorksafeBC)
- How to Make Your Computer Workstation Fit You (WorksafeBC)
- MSD Prevention Tool Kit (IWH Ontario)
- Office Ergonomics (CCOHS)
- Pictograms to Prevent MSDs (IWH Ontario)
Excavation and Trenching
- Excavation and Trenches - OHS App
- Excavation and Trenching - Hazard Alert
- Fact Sheet - There is always time for safe trenching preparation
- Safety Talk- Excavation and Trenching
- Poster - Don't become the worst-case scenario when excavating and trenching
- Working in Heat and Cold - OHS App
- Guide to Cold Stress at Work
- Guide to Prevention of Heat Stress at Work
- Hurricane Season Safety Tips Prevention Update
- Heat Stress Prevention Update
- Poster - Heat Stress
- A Guide for Working in the Heat and Humidity (CCOHS)
- Cold Environments (CCOHS)
Impairment in the workplace can result when workers ingest alcohol, prescription medication, recreational drugs and other impairing substances.
- Fit for Duty - OHS App
- Impairment - OHS App
- Cannabis and Workplace Safety
- Fit for Duty Prevention Update
- CCOHS Cannabis White Paper
- CCOHS Resources: "Impairment at Work" Fact Sheet
- "Medical Marijuana" Fact Sheet
- OEMAC Position Statement on the Implications of Cannabis Use
- "Problematic Substance Use - That Impacts the Workplace" - Atlantic Canada Council on Addiction
- PEI Laws on Use of Cannabis
- "Workplace Strategies: Risk of Impairment from Cannabis" White Paper
- Infectious Diseases - OHS App
- Guide to Communicable Disease Prevention
- Hand-Washing Sign
- Histoplasmosis Prevention Update
- Histoplasmosis - Protecting Workers At Risk
- Working Around Bird And Bat Droppings
- Histoplasmosis (CCOHS)
- Mechanical Safety - OHS App
- Equipment Maintenance Hazard Alert
- Grain Bin Hazard Alert
- Oyster Boom Crane Hazard Alert
- Potato Harvester Hazard Alert
- Occupational Carcinogens - OHS App
- Hexavalent Chromium Prevention Update
- Silica Dust Safety Talk
- Silica Prevention Update
- Solar Radiation (Sun Exposure) Prevention Update
- Radiation and Your Health
- Powered Mobile Equipment - OHS App
- Forage Harvester Hazard Alert
- Power Take Off (PTO) Hazard Alert
- Seat Belt Hazard Alert
- Snow-blower Hazard Alert
- Towing Hazard Alert
- PEI Aquaculture Safety Code of Practice
- Risk of Drowning- OHS App
- Aquaculture – OHS App
- Risk of Drowning Hazard Alert
- Selection of Personal Flotation Devices and Life Jackets
- Traffic Control - OHS App
- Blind Spots Hazard Alert
- Distracted Driving Prevention Update
- Temporary Workplace Traffic Control Manual 2016
- Signalling/Spotting Poster
