Alberta Workplace safety training audit
Most compliance checklists ask how many workers you have and stop there. This one asks what you actually operate and what your people are exposed to — because a boom lift, a confined space and a silica dust cloud each carry their own training requirement, and those are the ones that get missed.
- Takes about three minutes
- Findings cite the regulation where we've verified it
- Runs in your browser — nothing is sent to us
- Alberta rules applied
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Describe what your business does in a sentence or two and we'll tick what we can. You review everything before it counts — nothing is assumed on your behalf.
Your worksite
Province sets which rules apply. Postal code is only used to find providers near you — it never changes the findings.
Committees, written programs and policy obligations trigger on the size of the whole workplace, not on who's present at once.
Distance from medical care raises first aid requirements in every province. It's the most commonly missed one.
Province and worker count are needed before we can assess anything.
Understanding Alberta safety training requirements
Workplace safety in Alberta is enforced by Alberta OHS. Most employers know they need first aid coverage and size it by headcount. The requirements that actually generate orders and stop-work notices are the ones tied to specific equipment and specific exposures — and those are invisible on a headcount-based checklist.
Fall protection is generally triggered at 3 metres in Alberta under Alberta OHS Code, s. 139(1)(a), which states that an employer must ensure a worker is protected from falling at a temporary or permanent work area where the worker may fall 3 metres or more.. It also applies below that height where what is underneath presents an unusual risk, which catches a lot of people working over machinery or open floor openings.
Equipment training is largely national rather than provincial. Lift trucks follow CSA B335, and elevating work platforms follow CSA B354.7 and B354.8— the same documents in every province, adopted or referenced by each jurisdiction's own regulation. That is why an operator card alone does not satisfy the requirement: the standards call for a practical evaluation on the class of machine at the workplace where it will be used.
A boom lift is the clearest example of a requirement people miss. Because the platform can travel outside the machine's base and can catapult an occupant over the guardrails, fall arrest is required inside it — so a boom lift needs both MEWP operator training and fall protection training. A guardrailed scissor lift generally does not, and being told otherwise is how employers end up paying for training nobody needed.
Distance from medical care is the other commonly missed input. Every province escalates first aid supplies and the required level of first aider as a site gets further from definitive care, so a remote site sized on headcount alone will be under-provisioned.
Alberta provisions we have checked against the regulation
Each was read from Alberta OHS's own published text on the date shown. Where we have not verified a provision we say so rather than cite one.
- At what height is fall protection required in Alberta?
- An employer must ensure a worker is protected from falling at a temporary or permanent work area where the worker may fall 3 metres or more.Alberta OHS Code, s. 139(1)(a)checked 2026-07-27
- What first aid does a Alberta workplace need?
- First aiders, supplies, equipment, kits and a first aid room must be provided per Schedule 2, Tables 4 to 7 — which key off the number of workers, the hazard level and the distance to a health care facility. Kits must meet CSA Z1220-17 (s. 178(3)) and training must follow CSA Z1210-17 (s. 177(2)). Injuries must be recorded (s. 183) and emergency transportation arranged (s. 180).Alberta OHS Code, Part 11, s. 178(1)checked 2026-07-27
- When does a Alberta workplace need a health and safety committee?
- A joint health and safety committee is required where an employer regularly employs 20 or more workers, or at any site a Director designates (s. 13(1)). Between 5 and 19 workers the employer must instead designate a health and safety representative who is not associated with management (s. 14(1)). Both must follow consultation with any certified bargaining agent. Where 20 or more workers from two or more employers are regularly at one site, the employers must coordinate a single committee (s. 13(2)) — unless a prime contractor has been designated (s. 13(3)).Alberta OHS Act, ss. 13–14checked 2026-07-27
- Does a Alberta employer need a violence and harassment policy?
- An employer must develop AND implement a violence and harassment prevention plan covering: measures to eliminate or control the hazard, procedures to inform workers of specific or general threats, procedures to report, procedures to investigate complaints and incidents, and confidentiality protections for everyone involved. It must be built in consultation with the joint committee, the health and safety representative, or affected workers where there is neither (s. 390(2)), reviewed periodically (s. 390.7), and workers must be trained on it (s. 391). Separately, s. 390.3 requires an employer aware that a worker is or may be exposed to DOMESTIC violence at a work site to take reasonable precautions to protect them — a duty most employers do not know exists.Alberta OHS Code, Part 27, s. 390(1)checked 2026-07-27
- Does a Alberta employer need a written health and safety program?
- An employer regularly employing 20 or more workers must establish AND implement a health and safety program, subject to the OHS Code. The same headcount that triggers the committee triggers the written program, so an employer crossing twenty acquires both obligations at once.Alberta OHS Act, s. 16checked 2026-07-27
Operating in more than one province?
The requirements differ by more than most people expect — thresholds, the level of first aider, even whether a policy has to be posted. Run the audit for each place you work.
What this tool is, and isn't
It is a structured read of what the rules commonly require for a site like the one you describe, written to be checkable — where we cite a section, we have opened the regulation and recorded the date. It is not legal advice and not a substitute for Alberta OHS, and some requirements turn on details no short form can capture. Treat a finding as a question to answer, not a verdict.