Practice Guide for Hearing Appeals
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Definitions
- "Appellant" « Appelant »
- “appellant” means any employer, employee or union appealing a direction issued by a health and safety officer and any employee appealing a decision of no danger issued by a health and safety officer following the employee’s exercise of his right to refuse to work.
- “Respondent” « Intimé »
- “respondent” means any employer, employee or union wanting to oppose the appellant’s appeal of a health and safety officer’s decision or direction that is of direct concern to the employer, employee or union.
- “Other party or Intervener” « Autre partie ou Intervenant »
- “other party or intervener” means any person or group given such status by the appeals officer after having demonstrated that they have substantially the same interest as the appellant or the respondent and could be affected by the appeals officer’s decision.
- “Office” « Bureau »
- “Office” means the Canada Appeals Office on Occupational Health and Safety, i.e. an administrative structure established to support the appeals officers in the performance of their duties and to facilitate the hearings that they preside.
- “Appeal” « Appel »
- “appeal” means the recourse taken against a decision of no danger issued by a health and safety officer following a refusal to work or against any direction issued by such an officer.