Yukon COR safety manual template
A complete written health and safety program for Yukon construction employers, laid out element by element on the Northern Safety Network Yukon (NSNY) COR audit and written to the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Act and the Workplace Health and Safety Regulations. 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, the health and safety management system the Act requires at 20 or more workers and its twelve required parts, the three-year reviews, and responsibilities for the employer, supervisors, workers, the prime contractor, owners, suppliers, the committee or representative, subcontractors and visitors.
2. Hazard assessment, analysis and control
Formal and site-specific hazard assessments and when the regulations require a new one, the 5 × 5 risk matrix, critical tasks, controls in order with a person and a date for each, and the assessments Yukon 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, hazardous products, temporary power and overhead lines, and excavations, each ending with the Yukon 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, a table of every written procedure and plan Yukon law requires, and what the board’s codes of practice mean in law.
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 a reprisal against a worker for exercising their rights.
6. Personal protective equipment
The work that needs PPE and how it is chosen with workers, what the employer provides at no cost, high visibility apparel levels, hearing protection, respirators and fit testing, care, training and inspection.
7. Preventative maintenance
An equipment inventory, the inspections and records the regulations require (cranes, mobile equipment, slings, extinguishers), who may do the work, and taking defective equipment out of service.
8. Training and communication
Orientation built on the board’s Code of Practice for young and new workers, the training and certifications the regulations require, from crane operators to blaster’s permits and first-aid attendants, supervisor training, competency checks, safety meetings and toolbox talks.
9. Workplace inspections
The inspection schedule, the checklists used, committee and representative participation, and correcting and sharing what is found.
10. Incident investigations and reporting
Immediate reports of serious incidents and injuries to the board, by the prime contractor first, the scene rules, the written investigation report, the employer’s notice of injury within three days, corrective action and management review.
11. Emergency preparedness
Emergency plans for each site, equipment, roles, drills, fire response, and first aid under Part 18 of the regulations: construction as Class A hazard work, the attendant and kit table for close, distant and isolated workplaces, and emergency transportation.
12. Statistics, records and document control
Document control and the records the law gives a period to, leading and lagging indicators, year-over-year trends, first aid records and audit action plans.
13. Legislation
Written so workers and supervisors can answer the auditor’s interview questions: the law on site, their rights, refusing unsafe work step by step, protection from reprisal, reporting to the board, and medical monitoring for noise, silica, lead and asbestos.
14. Procurement and contractor management
Choosing and monitoring subcontractors and service providers, the prime contractor and site coordinator on a project, and buying products safely.
15. Yukon supplement
The three parts of NSNY’s Yukon supplement: the joint health and safety committee or worker health and safety representative, the return-to-work program and policy, and a violence and harassment prevention policy and procedures written out with every element the regulations require.
Appendix A. COR cross-reference
Every one of the 94 documentation questions in the NSNY COR audit, what it looks for in plain words, the section that answers it, and whether the auditor will also want your records, with the questions that apply only to COR (not SECOR) marked. Each entry links to its section.
Appendix B. Forms
31 print-ready forms that match the manual, each on one page with a form code, from policy review and hazard assessments to a noise and medical monitoring log, committee meeting records, a return-to-work plan and a violence or harassment report.
Built around the NSNY COR audit
The manual follows NSNY’s COR®/SECOR® Harmonized Audit Tool with the Yukon supplement (January 2025, v.3) in the same order: the 14 national elements, then the Yukon supplement on committees and representatives, return to work, and violence and harassment prevention. Each has its own section, and NSNY’s Yukon question on medical monitoring is answered in section 13.
The audit scores documents, interviews and observations, and needs 80% overall with no section below 50%. This manual answers each of the 94 documentation questions in writing, and Appendix A shows where, marking the questions that apply only to COR companies of 10 or more. 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 Yukon law as it stands
Every requirement is cited to the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Act, the Workplace Health and Safety Regulations, the Workplace Health Regulations, the WHMIS Regulation, the Employment Standards Act or the board’s codes of practice, read from the official texts. It uses the law in force since July 2022, not the repealed Occupational Health and Safety Act, and nothing in it is borrowed from another province’s rules.
Where the law sets no number, such as how often to inspect 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
Yukon construction employers working toward COR or SECOR with NSNY. It is also the written health and safety management system the Act requires once 20 or more workers are regularly employed, and the written policies and procedures for the prevention of injury every employer needs.
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 October 1, 2026
- First edition, laid out on NSNY’s COR®/SECOR® Harmonized Audit Tool with the Yukon supplement (January 2025, v.3).
- Written to the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Act and the Workplace Health and Safety Regulations, Workplace Health Regulations and WHMIS Regulation as consolidated to September 30, 2022.
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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 NSNY 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 work for SECOR?
Yes. NSNY audits companies of 9 or fewer persons for SECOR® with the same tool, skipping some questions. Appendix A marks the questions that apply only to COR®, so a small company can see what it may leave out.
Do I need a written safety program in Yukon?
Under the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Act, an employer that regularly employs 20 or more workers needs a written health and safety management system and a joint health and safety committee; at 5 to 19 workers it needs a worker health and safety representative. Below 20, the Act requires hazard assessments for each workplace, and the regulations require every employer to have written policies and procedures for the prevention of injury and a written violence and harassment prevention policy.
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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