Take-home messages:
- Occupational health and safety regulation and systems in Canada were designed with a sedentary workforce in mind.
- Some of the hazards to which members of the mobile workforce are exposed are not addressed by our current regulatory frameworks.
- We found that many of these workers are invisible to regulators because of the mobility associated with their work, and that prevention strategies need to be adapted to the reality of mobile work.
Learning Outcomes
Mobile workers are exposed to multiple hazards while getting to work yet these hazards are not on the radar of regulators
Some mobile workers are obliged to live at or near their workplace for extended periods of time, and this raises new health and safety challenges
Multiple jurisdictions overlap in the regulation of some of these workers
Health and safety inspectorates and health and safety committees need to adapt their practices when workers are engaged in E-RGM
