MLITSD announces its compliance campaigns in advance. This self-audit covers six of the 2026–27 campaigns: residential construction, the health-care internal responsibility system, retail, mining lockout and tagout, noise, and veterinary facilities. It also covers the core records an inspector asks for on any visit.
Updated for the 2026–27 MLITSD campaign cycle.
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MLITSD Blitz Self-Audit
Campaign self-audit · Ontario workplaces
Updated for the 2026–27 MLITSD campaign cycle.
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Employer / company:
Workplace audited:
Completed by:
Position:
Date:
Next review:
0. Core records requested on every visit
Requirement
What good looks like
Y / N / N-A
Evidence or gap
OHSA and required postings
The Act, the health and safety policy, and required notices posted where workers can read them.
Worker and supervisor awareness training
Mandatory basic awareness training completed, with records for every worker and supervisor.
JHSC or health and safety representative
Correct structure for your size, certified members where required, minutes current and posted.
Violence and harassment program
Policies reviewed annually, programs in place, workers informed.
Hazard assessments and inspections
Documented, current, and closed out.
First aid
Requirements met for your workforce, with in-date certificates and stocked stations.
Missing or inadequate basic awareness training, incomplete violence and harassment programs, JHSC gaps and fall protection deficiencies are among the most common orders written against Ontario employers. Clear these before worrying about anything else.
Campaigns at a glance
Inspections run from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027. Individual workplaces are not notified in advance, and inspectors can apply the OHSA and its regulations to anything they find. Source: Ontario.ca, Health and safety compliance campaigns 2026–2027.
Campaign
Workplaces covered
Section
Residential construction
Single-family and multi-family residential projects, including residential re-roofing.
1
Health care: internal responsibility system
Hospitals, long-term care, group homes, retirement homes, clinics, professional offices and agencies, home health care.
2
Retail
Retail workplaces: material handling, floors, internal responsibility system, training, and musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) prevention.
3
Mining: lockout and tagout
All mines and mining plants.
4
Occupational hygiene: noise
All workplaces where workers are exposed to noise, including industrial, construction, mining and health care.
5
Veterinary facilities
Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals.
6
Farming and agriculture and education campaigns run over the same period. This checklist has no section for them. Education inspectors also look at WHMIS, violence and harassment programs, JHSCs and training, which Sections 0 and 7 cover.
1. Residential construction campaign
Requirement
What good looks like
Y / N / N-A
Evidence or gap
Fall hazards controlled
Working-at-heights hazards identified and controlled on every task, including residential re-roofing.
Equipment and material movement
Movement of equipment and material around the site is controlled.
Scaffolds
Set up and used correctly.
Ladders
Set up and used correctly.
Stairs and handrails
Stairs and handrails are installed.
Excavations and trenches
Excavation and trench protection in place.
Housekeeping
Work areas are kept tidy.
Information, instruction and supervision
Workers have adequate information, instruction and supervision. Inspectors have a secondary focus on supervision and complacency.
2. Health care campaign: internal responsibility system
Requirement
What good looks like
Y / N / N-A
Evidence or gap
Duties of the workplace parties
Each workplace party knows its duties and responsibilities under the OHSA.
Training
Training records are current, including Awareness Training (O. Reg. 297/13).
Notices and reports
A procedure for reporting fatalities, critical injuries, occupational illnesses and other incidents (O. Reg. 420/21).
JHSC or HSR functioning
A JHSC or HSR is in place where required and working: inspections done, minutes kept, recommendations followed up.
Reg. 67/93, where it applies
Under O. Reg. 67/93 (Health Care and Residential Facilities), written measures and procedures developed with the JHSC or HSR, reviewed at least annually and revised as needed, and workers trained on them.
3. Retail campaign: material handling, MSD prevention and the IRS
Requirement
What good looks like
Y / N / N-A
Evidence or gap
Equipment maintained
Equipment is in good condition.
Floors
Floors are free of hazards.
Manual material handling
Receiving, unpacking, returns, stocking and point-of-sale tasks assessed, with controls for carts and other transport equipment.
Storage and ladder use
Storage practices and ladder use during material handling do not create a fall or MSD risk.
MSD information and instruction
Workers have been told about the MSD hazards of their retail tasks.
Internal inspections
Workplace inspections look for MSD hazards, and the JHSC or HSR is in place where required.
Training and orientation
New workers receive orientation, and supervisor and worker awareness training is complete.
Required training is complete, and workers know the safety procedures.
Protective equipment
PPE is provided and used.
Other hazards
Controls cover infectious agents from animal bites and scratches, contaminated medical equipment, chemicals, noise and X-rays.
7. Chemical agents and WHMIS
Requirement
What good looks like
Y / N / N-A
Evidence or gap
Safety data sheets current
Sheets in the current 16-section format. Legacy MSDS are a priority fix. Ontario has no three-year expiry: the employer updates a supplier sheet as soon as practicable after significant new data (Reg. 860).
Readily available
Sheets must be readily available to workers who may be exposed (OHSA s.38(1.1)). A 15-minute retrieval time is a good internal target, not a legal requirement. Test it.
Decanted containers labelled
A workplace label at minimum on every transferred container: a product identifier matching the safety data sheet, safe-handling information, and a statement that the safety data sheet is available (Reg. 860). Pictograms and a signal word are not required on a workplace label.
Worker training records
General and workplace-specific WHMIS training, dated and retained.
Exposure controls for listed substances
Controls in place and verified for any designated or regulated substance in use.
Inventory current
The hazardous product list matches what is actually on site.
8. Findings and corrective actions
#
Finding
Priority
Action required
Owner
Due
MLITSD Blitz Self-Audit Checklist · HSE Advisor Canada · Free to use and adapt.
MLITSD Blitz Self-Audit Checklist · Version 2.0 · Reviewed October 2026 · HSE Advisor Canada. Free to use and adapt. General guidance, not legal advice.
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