CAN/CSA-Z1002-12:2012 Edition

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Occupational health and safety – Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control (Including update no. up to 2:2014)

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
CSA	2012	92

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Description

Preface

This is the first edition of CSA Z1002, Occupational health and safety – Hazard identification and elimination and risk assessment and control.

This Standard is part of the CSA Z1000 series of occupational health and safety management Standards.

Scope

1.1 General

This Standard specifies requirements for the identification of OHS hazards, their elimination where practical, and assessment and control of risks associated with remaining hazards.

1.2 Applicability

This Standard is applicable to organizations of any size or type and can be applied at all stages in the lifecycle of a product, process, or service.

1.3 Use

This Standard is intended to be used by all stakeholders, e.g., those who are responsible for

(a) evaluating an organizations practices in assessing OHS risk;
(b) ensuring that an organization eliminates OHS hazards and controls risk associated with remaining hazards that cannot be eliminated;
(c) organizational efforts to eliminate OHS hazards and control risk associated with a specific area or activity; and
(d) development of standards, guides, procedures, and codes of practice that in whole or in part set out how hazards are to be eliminated and risks controlled within the specific context of their documents.

1.4 Terminology

In this Standard, shall is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the standard; should is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; and may is used to express an option or that which is permissible within the limits of the standard.

Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material.

Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements.

Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (nonmandatory) to define their application.

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