Corporation's Obligations. (a) The Corporation has the primary responsibility for ensuring that safe conditions prevail within the workplace, to take appropriate and effective measures, both preventive and corrective, to protect the health and safety of employees. (b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Corporation shall: (i) provide and maintain work places, equipment, work methods and tools that are safe and without risk to health; (ii) inform its employees and their Alliance representative of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health or safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation; (iii) inform employees adequately regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide appropriate training and supervision so that the employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them; (iv) provide the equipment, clothing and devices deemed necessary to prevent injury, except where the collective agreement provides for employee allowances to cover the cost of personal protective clothing, and ensure that employees use the said equipment, clothing and devices on the job; (v) ensure that the necessary investigations, inspections and analyses are carried out and cooperate with any health and safety committee established in accordance with this Article, when there are situations liable to endanger the health or safety of employees; (vi) take, without delay, all the measures necessary to prevent or correct a situation liable to endanger the health and safety of employees, or liable to compromise the environment, as soon as this situation is brought to its attention; (vii) maintain and apply corporate procedures relating to the provision, replacement or allowance for safety footwear; (viii) issue aprons or have a pool of aprons available for samplers and for employees who are required to work with mail bags in the undeliverable mail office or mail rooms.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Corporation's Obligations.
(a) The Corporation has the primary responsibility for ensuring that safe conditions prevail within the workplace, to take appropriate and effective measures, both preventive and corrective, to protect the health and safety of employees.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Corporation shall:
(i) provide and maintain work places, equipment, work methods and tools that are safe and without risk to health;
(ii) inform its employees and their Alliance representative of any situation relating to their work which may endanger their health or safety, as soon as it learns of the said situation;
(iii) inform employees adequately regarding the risks relating to their work, and provide appropriate training and supervision so that the employees have the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform the work assigned to them;
(iv) provide the equipment, clothing and devices deemed necessary to prevent injury, except where the collective agreement provides for employee allowances to cover the cost of personal protective clothing, and ensure that employees use the said equipment, clothing and devices on the job;
(v) ensure that the necessary investigations, inspections and analyses are carried out and cooperate with any health and safety committee established in accordance with this Article, when there are situations liable to endanger the health or safety of employees;
(vi) take, without delay, all the measures necessary to prevent or correct a situation liable to endanger the health and safety of employees, or liable to compromise the environment, as soon as this situation is brought to its attention;
(vii) maintain and apply corporate procedures relating to the provision, replacement or allowance for safety footwear;
(viii) issue aprons or have a pool of aprons available for samplers and for employees who are required to work with mail bags in the undeliverable mail office or mail rooms.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement