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Ontario

Health and safety on Ontario construction

The statutory safety duties on site and the bodies that enforce them.

6 authorities, 6 statutory, 6 free to read.

StatutoryFree to read

Occupational Health and Safety Act and O. Reg. 213/91 (Construction Projects)

Government of Ontario

construction site safetynotices of projectcompetent supervisionfall protection

Reusable Crown text like the OBC, so it is an ingestion candidate on the same terms. Its notice-of-project and constructor-duty provisions bear directly on what a contractor must do before starting.

StatutoryFree to read

Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.1

Government of Ontario

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Free and openly licensed on Ontario e-Laws. Note that e-Laws pages render client-side and may not respond to a plain fetch; the Ministry's own guideline PDFs and the CanLII mirror are useful fallbacks.

StatutoryFree to read

Ontario workplace safety and insurance regime and clearance certificate practice

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (Ontario)

workplace insurance coverage for construction workclearance certificates evidencing an account in good standinga principal's exposure for a contractor's unpaid premiums

Included because it is a payment-blocking document rather than a safety document: an arithmetically perfect payment application is held without a current clearance attached. Deliberately left as must_verify with no figures. The interaction worth flagging to whoever verifies it is the timing one, a certificate valid at submission but lapsed at certification stops the payment just as effectively as none at all, so the validity period is the operationally load-bearing number.

StatutoryFree to read

Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 and the WSIB operational policy on expanded compulsory coverage in construction

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario

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The clearance certificate is a per-payment-period document, not a one-time award document, which is why it belongs as a column on the payment application rather than as an attachment. Getting this wrong transfers a subcontractor's unpaid premiums onto the contractor.

The rest of the Ontario register

The register tells you what. The back office does it.

AEC Stack carries the registrations, the insurance certificates, the payment notices and their deadlines, and the documents a buyer wants before they let you start. Across Canada, built deepest for Ontario.

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