Bill 19 — Third Session, 29Th Legislature, 66 Elizabeth Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 19 An Act To Protect Gas and Convenience Store Workers (Legislature 29, Session 3)

L29 S3 11709

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2017 Bill 19 Third Session, 29th Legislature, 66 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 19

AN ACT TO PROTECT GAS AND CONVENIENCE STORE WORKERS THE MINISTER OF LABOUR First Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Second Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Committee of the Whole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Third Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Royal Assent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1 Bill 19 BILL 19 2017

AN ACT TO PROTECT GAS AND CONVENIENCE STORE WORKERS ( A s s e n t e d t o , 2 0 1 7 ) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: Amends Occupational Health and Safety Code, 2009 1 The Occupational Health and Safety Code, 2009 is amended by this Act. 2 The following is added after

section 392: Retail Fuel and Convenience Store Worker Safety Application 392.1 Sections 392.2 to 392.6 apply to gas stations, other retail fuelling outlets and convenience stores where workers are ordinarily present during business hours. Workplace violence prevention plan 392.2 An employer must ensure that the development of the policy and procedures under

section 390 includes developing and implementing a workplace violence prevention plan that contains at least the following procedures, policies and control measures: (

a) safe cash-handling procedures, including procedures that minimize the amount of money readily accessible to a worker at the work site;

1 Explanatory Notes Explanatory Notes 1 Amends Occupational Health and Safety Code, 2009. 2 Worker violence prevention plan; worker training; review of plan and training; personal emergency transmitter; mandatory fuel prepayment.

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b) where the work site is open to the public between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., (

i) a time lock safe at th e work site that cannot be opened by a worker between, at minimum, those hours; (ii) limiting the quantities of high-value items, including cash and lottery tickets, accessible at the work site between, at minimum, those hours; (iii) storing remaining high-value items in the time lock safe referred to in subclause (

i) or securely elsewhere; (

c) maintaining good visibility into and out of the work site; (

d) limiting access by the public to the interior of any buildings at the work site; (

e) monitoring the work site by video surveillance; (

f) signs at the work site visible to the public indicating that (

i) where the work site is open to the public between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., (

A) the safe at the work site is a time lock safe that cannot be opened; (

B) the quantity of high-value items such as cash and lottery tickets at the work site is limited; (ii) the work site is monitored by video surveillance; (

g) each worker working alone is provided with a personal emergency transmitter that is monitored by the employer or the employer’s designate. Worker training required 392.3 In addition to any instruction under

section 391, the employer must ensure that a worker is trained in the workplace violence prevention plan.

2 Explanatory Notes

3 Review of workplace violence prevention plan and worker training 392.4 The employer must ensure that the workplace violence prevention plan and corresponding worker training under

section 392.3 are reviewed and, if necessary, revised every 3 years, and whenever there is a change of circumstances that may affect the health and safety of workers. Personal emergency transmitter 392.5 A worker working alone must at all times during the worker’s work shift wear the personal emergency transmitter referred to in

section 392.2(g). Mandatory fuel prepayment 392.6(1) An employer must require that customers prepay for fuel sold at gas stations and other retail fuelling outlets.

(2) In addition to the requirement in subsection (1), an employer may implement procedures or use equipment as approved by a Director for payment for or sale of fuel, or the dispensing of fuel, to ensure worker safety. 3 Sections 392.1 to 392.6 may be amended or repealed in the same way as provided for in the Occupational Health and Safety Act as if they had been made and adopted under

section 40.1 of that Act. 4 This Act comes into force on June 1, 2018.

3 Explanatory Notes 3 Process for amendment or repeal of sections 392.1 to 392.7. 4 Coming into force.

RECORD OF DEBATE Stage Date Member From To Questions and Comments From To Stage Date Member From To Questions and Comments From To Stage Date Member From To Questions and Comments From To Stage Date Member From To Questions and Comments From To Title: 2017 (29th, 3rd) Bill 19,

An Act to Protect Gas and Convenience Store Workers

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