Bill 88 explained in plain English
Protecting Ontarians by Enhancing Gas Station Safety to Prevent Gas and Dash Act, 2023
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This bill amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act to require prepayment for gasoline at equipped pumps, mandate worker safety training, and ensure new pumps have prepayment technology, starting in the Greater Toronto Area and other designated municipalities with a phased approach.
This bill, known as the "Protecting Ontarians by Enhancing Gas Station Safety to Prevent Gas and Dash Act, 2023", amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act to introduce new safety measures for workers at gas stations. Key changes include requiring customers to prepay for gasoline before pumping it from pumps equipped with prepayment technology, and mandating worker safety training for employees involved in selling gasoline. It also requires gas station owners to ensure that any new or replacement pumps installed have prepayment technology. The application of these rules is phased and begins in the Greater Toronto Area and any other municipalities that pass a resolution requesting its application, with specific conditions for the initial period.
- Amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act to add new provisions for gas stations.
- Requires employers at gas stations to ensure customers pay for gasoline before pumping it, if the pump has prepayment technology.
- Requires employers to affix notices on pumps with prepayment technology informing customers about the prepayment requirement.
- Requires employers to provide safety training to workers involved in selling gasoline at stations with prepayment technology.
- Requires gas station owners to ensure new or replacement gasoline pumps installed have prepayment technology.
- Specifies that these requirements apply to gas stations in the Greater Toronto Area and in municipalities that pass a resolution requesting the application of these rules.
- Phases the application of these rules, with a six-month delay after the bill comes into force and a limitation to nighttime hours (9 p.m. to 6 a.m.) for the first year regarding the prepayment requirement for all hours.
- Empowers the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations related to the implementation of these new provisions, including governing notices, training, and transitional matters.
- Employers at gas stations.
- Owners of gas stations.
- Workers involved in selling gasoline at gas stations.
- Customers purchasing gasoline.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council (for regulatory powers).
- Employers must require customers to prepay for gasoline if pumped using a prepayment-enabled pump.
- Employers must affix notices on prepayment-enabled pumps about the prepayment requirement.
- Employers must provide worker safety training to staff involved in selling gasoline.
- Gas station owners must ensure new or replacement pumps have prepayment technology.
- Municipalities can pass resolutions requesting the application of these rules within their boundaries.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council can make regulations to prescribe details for notices, training, and municipalities where the rules apply.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The application of the new section to gas stations in the Greater Toronto Area begins six months after the day the Act receives Royal Assent.
- The application of the new section to other prescribed municipalities begins six months after the day the relevant regulation comes into force.
- For the first year after the section begins to apply in a municipality, the requirement for employers to ensure customers prepay applies only to gasoline sold between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
- The bill text does not specify penalties for non-compliance. However, the Occupational Health and Safety Act generally includes enforcement mechanisms and penalties for violations of its provisions.
- The specific requirements for notices and worker safety training are to be prescribed by regulation.
- The process for municipalities to request or withdraw from the application of the section, and the criteria for such requests, are to be prescribed by regulation.
- The bill does not explicitly state penalties for non-compliance with the new requirements. Enforcement would likely fall under the general provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, but specific penalties for these new sections are not detailed in the bill text.
- The definition of 'gasoline' excludes aviation fuel, leaded gasoline, and propane.
Adds a new section (25.3) that establishes requirements for gas stations concerning customer prepayment for gasoline, notices on pumps, worker safety training, and the installation of prepayment technology on new or replacement pumps.
Source: Section 1
Adds a new paragraph (43.2) to subsection 70 (2) to enable regulations to be made for the purposes of the new section 25.3 concerning gas stations.
Source: Section 2
Provides the definition for 'gasoline' as used in the new section 25.3 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Source: Section 1, subsection 25.3 (1)
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