Publications
Acts and Related Materials
Regulations and Related Materials
Draft Regulations
Codes of Practice
Guidelines and other Documents
CSA Standards
Acts and Related Materials
Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Act (PDF 365 KB)
- Posting Requirements for Occupational Health and Safety Act/Regulations and Smoke Free Places (PDF 93 KB)
Smoke-free Places Act
Regulations and Related Materials
Blasting Safety Regulations
Disclosure of Information Regulations
Occupational Diving Regulations
Occupational Safety General Regulations
- Engineering references in the Occupational Safety General Regulations (PDF)
- Info-Sheet R-4: Rollover Protective Structures on Tractors
- List of Standards Referenced in the Regulations
- Occupational Safety General Regulations
Smoke-free Places Regulations
Underground Mining Regulations
Violence in the Workplace Regulations
- Additional Workplace Violence Resources
- Preventing Violence Robbery and Theft (PDF 234 KB)
- Risk Assessment Form (PDF 35 KB), Word
- Workplace Violence Regulations
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
- Administration de SIMDUT (French PDF 16 KB)
- Info-Sheet R-2: Chemicals in the Workplace
- Info-Sheet R-3: WHMIS and Retail Stores
- WHMIS Administration (PDF 14 KB)
- WHMIS Regulations
Workplace Health and Safety Regulations
- Administrative Penalties Guidelines (PDF 138 KB) (for issuing penalties - contains schedule of High Risk Sections)
- Administrative Penalties: What you need to Know (PDF 164 KB)
- Engineering References in Workplace Health and Safety Regulations (PDF)
- First Aid
- Workplace Health and Safety Regulations
Draft Regulations
Codes of Practice
- Code of Practice Content
- Lead in the Workplace: A Guide to Working with Lead (PDF 241 KB)
- Managing Asbestos in the Workplace (PDF 261 KB)
- Preventing Workplace Violence: Codes of Practice
- Removal of friable asbestos containing material (PDF 244 KB)
Guidelines
- Cold Stress Guidelines (PDF 990 KB)
- Dosimeter Information Sheet for Nova Scotia Dental Offices (PDF 338 KB)
- Emergency Responders Traffic Management Guidelines (PDF 8.5 MB)
- Employers' Guide for Communicable Disease (PDF 203 KB)
- Process Safe: A Handbook for Seafood Processing (PDF 3.1 MB)
- Health and Safety Guide: For New Retail Workers (PDF 275 KB)
- Heat Stress Guidelines (PDF 405 KB)
- Health and Safety Card (PDF 104 KB)
- Hygiene Consultant Reports: What to Expect a guideline document prepared by the NS OH&S Division (PDF 218 KB)
- Listing of Definitions Used in Laws administered by the Occupational Health and Safety Division
- OHS Internal Responsibility System Brochure (PDF)
- OHS Internal Responsibility System Brochure: French (PDF)
- OHS Policy and Program Brochure (PDF)
- OHS Policy and Program Brochure: French (PDF)
- OHS Rights and Responsibilities Brochure (PDF)
- OHS Rights and Responsibilities Brochure: French (PDF)
- OHS Stakeholder Engagement Summary Summer 2016 (PDF 871 KB)
- OHS Workplace Visits Brochure (PDF)
- OHS Workplace Visits Brochure: French (PDF)
- Posting requirements for Occupational Health and Safety Act/Regulations and Smoke Free Places (PDF 50 KB)
- Preventing Violence Robbery and Theft (PDF 234 KB)
- Regulatory Development and Review Process
- Safety Manual for Businesses (PDF 426 KB)
- Safety Manual for Businesses (French PDF 482 KB)
- Small Business Occupational Health and Safety Checklist (PDF 267 KB)
- The Forest Professional - Guidelines for the Stewards of Tomorrow's Forests (5th Ed.) (PDF 1.1 MB)
- Tree Care Guidelines (PDF 99 KB)
- Workplace First Aid: A Guide for Employers and First Aiders (PDF 260 KB)
- Workplace First Aid: A Guide for Employers and First Aiders (French PDF 492 KB)