Prince Edward Island safety manual template
A complete written health and safety program for Prince Edward Island construction employers, written to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the General Regulations and the fall protection, scaffolding, harassment and WHMIS regulations, and laid out on the 14 national COR elements. 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 with everything the Act asks it to cover, reviewed every year, the written program and every element it must contain, and responsibilities for management, supervisors, workers, the committee or representative, constructors, subcontractors and visitors.
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 PEI law requires by name, from the violence risk assessment to the workplace first aid risk assessment.
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 Prince Edward Island 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, plans and assessments PEI law requires, from the written fall protection plan to working alone procedures.
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 a worker for exercising their rights.
6. Personal protective equipment
The work that needs PPE and how it is chosen to the standards the regulations name, fit, care and use of harnesses, respirators and hearing protection, training and inspection.
7. Preventative maintenance program
An equipment inventory, the inspections the regulations require, maintenance records, who may do the work, and taking defective equipment out of service.
8. Training and communication
Orientation before work starts, the training the law requires, from fall protection and first aid to WHMIS and signallers, job-specific and supervisor training, competency checks, safety meetings and toolbox talks, and the Youth Employment Act rules for young workers.
9. Inspections
The inspection schedule your program sets and the inspections the regulations require, the forms and pre-use checklists used, who inspects, committee inspections, and correcting and sharing what is found.
10. Investigations and reporting
Written notice to the Director of Occupational Health and Safety within 24 hours of a serious injury, accidental explosions, leaving the scene undisturbed, the Employer’s Report (Form 7) to the WCB within 3 days, 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 General Regulations: the written workplace first aid risk assessment, first aiders by certificate level, 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 workers and supervisors can answer an auditor’s interview questions: the law on site, their rights, refusing unsafe work step by step, protection from discriminatory action, and reporting to the Workers Compensation Board.
14. Procurement and contractor management
Choosing and monitoring subcontractors and service providers, the constructor’s duties when several employers share a project, and buying products safely.
15. Prince Edward Island requirements
What PEI law requires beyond the national elements: the joint occupational health and safety committee or representative, a harassment policy with every required element, the violence risk assessment, working alone procedures, hearing conservation and hearing tests, return to work, and the postings the law requires.
Appendix A. COR cross-reference
Every one of the 74 documentation questions in the 14 national COR elements, 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
30 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, return-to-work plans and a working alone check-in log.
Laid out on the national COR elements
Prince Edward Island has no COR program of its own. This manual follows the 14 elements every harmonized COR audit shares, in the same order and numbering the Atlantic safety associations use, so it is ready for a COR audit wherever you certify. A certifying association adds its own provincial supplement; ask it for its audit tool and check the manual against it.
Section 15 then gathers what Prince Edward Island law requires that the national elements don’t cover: the committee or representative, harassment, violence, working alone, hearing conservation, return to work and postings. Appendix A shows where each of the 74 documentation questions is answered. 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 Prince Edward Island law as it stands
Every requirement is cited to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the General Regulations, the Fall Protection, Scaffolding, Workplace Harassment and WHMIS Regulations, the Workers Compensation Act or the Youth Employment Act, checked against the consolidations current in 2026. That includes the risk-based first aid rules in force since January 2025. Nothing in it is borrowed from another province’s rules.
Where the law sets no number, such as how often to hold toolbox talks or how long to keep most records, 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
Prince Edward Island construction employers who need a written program: the occupational health and safety policy the Act requires once 5 or more workers are regularly employed, and the written program it requires at 20 or more, both reviewed every year. It also suits PEI contractors preparing for COR with a safety association outside the province.
If you are working toward certification, check the manual against your certifying association’s own audit tool and provincial supplement.
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 October 1, 2026
- First edition, laid out on the 14 national elements of the harmonized COR audit, with a section of Prince Edward Island requirements.
- Written to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the General Regulations and the fall protection, scaffolding, harassment and WHMIS regulations as consolidated in 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.
Does Prince Edward Island have COR?
Not of its own: there is no COR program or certifying association based in Prince Edward Island. The manual follows the 14 national elements every harmonized COR audit shares, so it is ready if you certify through an association elsewhere, and section 15 covers PEI’s own legal requirements. A certifying association may add its own provincial supplement, so check the manual against its audit tool.
Do I need a written safety policy and program in Prince Edward Island?
Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an employer with 5 or more workers regularly employed needs a written occupational health and safety policy, and at 20 or more a written occupational health and safety program, each reviewed at least once a year. Every employer also needs a written harassment policy and a violence risk assessment, and the manual includes both.
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 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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