Employers and other workplace stakeholders have little
time to waste in preparing for the upcoming changes to
Alberta's Occupational Health and Safety and Workers'
Compensation legislation.
Bill 30: An Act To Protect The Health And Well-Being Of
Working Albertans, which amends Alberta's Occupational
Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation legislation, has
now passed third reading and will come into force in the new
year.
The Bill was been heralded by the Alberta Government as greatly
improving the province's OHS and WCB statutory schemes. While
time will tell if meaningful improvements are achieved, we know for
certain that this overhaul of Alberta's OHS and WCB laws will
enlarge the bureaucracy of both regulatory regimes and impose
further layers of substantive and administrative obligations on
employers and other industry stakeholders. Alberta businesses will
also need to adjust quickly, with many WCB changes taking effect
January 1, 2018 and most OHS
