New Brunswick COR safety manual template
A complete written health and safety program for New Brunswick construction employers, laid out section by section on the New Brunswick Construction Safety Association (NBCSA) COR audit and written to the Occupational Health and Safety Act and General Regulation 91-191. It arrives as an editable Word file you make your own: your name, your logo, your job titles and your work.
A look inside
Sample pages from the manual, marked and cut short. Your copy has no watermark.
What’s in the manual
1. Safety and health policy
A signed, dated policy covering what the audit checks, a yearly review of the policy and the whole program, and written responsibilities for management, supervisors, employees, the committee or representative, subcontractors and visitors, including your duties as contractor on a project site.
2. Hazard assessment, analysis and control
Formal and site-specific hazard assessments, the 5 × 5 risk matrix, critical tasks, controls in order with a person and a date for each, and the assessments New Brunswick law requires by name.
3. Safe work practices
Twelve starter practices for common construction work: site conduct, ladders, working at heights, tools, lifting, mobile equipment, silica, working alone, heat and cold, WHMIS, temporary power and excavations, each ending with the New Brunswick legislation that applies.
4. Safe job procedures
Step-by-step procedures for six critical tasks, from lockout and fall arrest to entering a trench and hoisting, and a table of the written procedures and codes of practice the law requires.
5. Company safety rules
Written company and site rules and a progressive discipline process that is applied the same way every time and never used as discriminatory action against an employee for exercising their rights.
6. Personal protective equipment
The work that needs PPE and how it is chosen, fit, care and use of harnesses, respirators and hearing protection, training and inspection.
7. Preventative maintenance program
An equipment inventory, maintenance to manufacturer and Regulation standards, maintenance records, who may do the work, and tagging defective equipment out of service.
8. Training and communication
Orientation covering every topic the Act lists, before work starts, the training the law requires, job-specific and supervisor training, competency checks, safety meetings and toolbox talks.
9. Inspections
The monthly inspection the Act requires and the rest of the schedule, the forms and pre-use checklists used, who inspects, and correcting and sharing what is found.
10. Investigations and reporting
What must be reported to WorkSafeNB immediately and what goes in the 3-day report, leaving the scene of a serious accident undisturbed, near misses, investigations, corrective action and management review.
11. Emergency preparedness
Emergency plans for each site, equipment, training and roles, drills, fire response, and first aid under the First Aid Regulation: first aid providers by employees per shift, kits, the first aid room and records.
12. Statistics, records and document control
Document control and records retention, leading and lagging indicators, year-over-year trends, first aid records and audit action plans.
13. Legislation
Written so employees and supervisors can answer the auditor’s interview questions: the law on site, their rights, refusing unsafe work step by step, protection from discriminatory action, and reporting to WorkSafeNB.
14. Procurement and contractor management
Choosing and monitoring contractors and service providers, the contractor’s duties when several employers share a project site, and buying products safely.
15. New Brunswick supplement
Everything NBCSA’s supplement checks: the joint health and safety committee or representative, washrooms, lunchrooms and drinking water, a workplace accommodation program, the harassment code of practice and training, the violence risk assessment and code of practice, an environmental policy, WHMIS, and every code of practice New Brunswick law requires, with the working alone code written out.
Appendix A. COR cross-reference
Every one of the 84 documentation questions in the NBCSA COR audit, what it looks for in plain words, the section that answers it, and whether the auditor will also want your records. Each entry links to its section.
Appendix B. Forms
29 print-ready forms that match the manual, each on one page with a form code: policy review, hazard assessments, critical tasks, procedures, discipline, PPE, maintenance, orientation, training, meetings, inspections, incidents, investigations, emergencies, statistics, work refusals, contractors, products, committee meetings and modified duties.
Built around the NBCSA COR audit
The manual follows NBCSA’s COR audit, the national harmonized instrument with a New Brunswick supplement, in the same order: the 14 national sections, then the supplement, which covers the committee or representative, site facilities, accommodation, harassment and violence, the environment, WHMIS and codes of practice. Each has its own section.
The audit scores documents, interviews and observations. This manual answers each of the 84 documentation questions in writing, and Appendix A shows where. The 68 interview questions and 32 observations are passed by your people doing what the manual says, so the supplement and section 13, Legislation, say plainly what the site must show and what employees must know. No template can guarantee a certificate on its own, and we don’t claim to. What it gives you is a complete, audit-shaped program to put in place.
Written to New Brunswick law as it stands
Every requirement is cited to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, General Regulation 91-191, the First Aid, WHMIS and working alone regulations, or the Workers’ Compensation Act, checked against the laws.gnb.ca consolidations current in September 2026, including the 2024 changes to hearing conservation, ladders, scaffolds and hard hats on project sites. Nothing in it is borrowed from another province’s rules.
Where the law sets no number, such as how often to hold toolbox talks, the manual says so and gives you a highlighted default to set yourself. When the law changes, we update the template and you get the new edition free.
Who it is for
New Brunswick construction employers working toward COR with NBCSA. It is also the written safety policy and health and safety program the Act requires once 20 or more employees are regularly employed, reviewed every year.
If you are working toward certification with another safety association, check the manual against that association’s own audit tool.
Lifetime updates
When legislation or the audit changes, we publish a new edition and email everyone who bought the template. Every update is free, for as long as we publish it.
Version 1.0 September 30, 2026
- First edition, laid out on NBCSA’s COR Harmonized Audit Instrument with the New Brunswick supplement.
- Written to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, General Regulation 91-191 and related regulations as consolidated on laws.gnb.ca in September 2026.
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Questions
What format is the manual in?
An editable Microsoft Word (.docx) file on US Letter pages. It works best in desktop Word for Windows or Mac. It also opens in Google Docs and Word on the web, where you use Find and replace to put your company name in.
Will this manual get us COR?
It gives you the written program the COR audit reviews, laid out on the NBCSA audit, with every documentation question answered and cross-referenced. Certification also depends on your records, employee interviews and what the auditor observes on site, so no template can promise a pass. If you want help putting it in place, or a gap analysis before your audit, our team does that too.
Does it include the codes of practice New Brunswick requires?
It lists every code of practice General Regulation 91-191 and the Code of Practice for Working Alone Regulation require, when each applies and what it must contain, with the harassment and violence codes and the working alone code written out. Codes for specific jobs, such as a confined space or a critical lift, are written for that job using the manual’s framework.
Do I need a written safety policy and program in New Brunswick?
Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an employer with 20 or more employees regularly employed in the province needs a written safety policy and a health and safety program, reviewed every year. Every employer must assess the risk of violence, and COR requires a documented program whatever your size.
How do I get the file after I pay?
Your download is on the confirmation page the moment payment goes through, and we email you a download link as well.
What happens when the legislation or the audit changes?
We update the template, and you get every update free for as long as we publish it: lifetime updates at no extra charge. We email you when a new edition is ready, with what changed and a link to download it.
Does it work with TruStar Connect?
Yes. The manual rates risk on the same 5 × 5 matrix TruStar Connect uses for its hazard register and investigations, so if you run your program in Connect, your ratings, bands and actions carry straight over.
Can I use it for more than one company?
Each purchase is licensed to one company. Consultants setting up programs for several clients should contact us.
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