Compliance & Best Practices Guides

Ministry of Labour and Workers’ Compensation Board in all jurisdictions are getting tough with companies that don’t measure up to health & safety and employment standards rules and regulations. There are more audits and inspections, increased fines and penalties, and new enforcement techniques introduced yearly. This guide explains these enforcement procedures and administrative penalties in each jurisdiction and provides three valuable self-audit tools:

- an occupational health & safety checklist
- an employment standards compliance checklist and
- a due diligence checklist

Using these checklists is a simple way to verify your level of compliance and recognize where you need to make changes.

Workplace violence and harassment prevention: A practical guide for employers

The 63-page guide from First Reference examines Canadian employers' legal obligations with respect to workplace violence and harassment from the perspective of occupational health and safety. It directs employers in their efforts to develop policies that can be implemented in a workplace violence and harassment prevention program. The guide contains practical, in-depth information, sample policies, and helpful forms and checklists. Click here to view the Table of Contents.

Co-published by First Reference and the Human Resources Professional Association, this 40-page paper explains why HR professionals are ideally positioned to take the lead in pandemic planning within their organizations, and provides a methodology for building a robust Business Continuity Plan.

(updated version available March 2010)

This guide discusses the recent requirement for organizations across Canada to obtain consent from individuals whose personal information they gather and use for commercial purposes as well as in the course of the employment relationship. The guide offers practical solutions to incorporate the privacy requirements in your employment and corporate policies and procedures, and includes a sample privacy policy.

The 32-page paper serves as a comprehensive guide to writing and maintaining policies that create a sound internal control framework to minimize risk and establish best practices within your organization.

The 70-page guide features checklists that make it simple to evaluate your company’s exposure to risk in eight key areas (like the revenue cycle, purchasing and payroll). Cross references in the checklists identify the FAPP policies that address the risks.