56. (1) This Part applies to the owner or operator of a site that is a manufacturing establishment.
(2) This Part does not apply to an owner of a site in a particular calendar year if,
(a) during the two preceding calendar years there was no calendar month in which the hours worked by the persons employed at the site exceeded 16,000 hours; and
(b) the owner is able to demonstrate this fact, within seven days of a request from the Director, through evidence satisfactory to the Director.
(3) Copies of the records related to hours of employment maintained under section 11 of the Employment Standards Act shall be deemed to be sufficient evidence of hours worked at a site if the copies are certified by the owner or the owner’s representative as to the accuracy of the records.
(4) In this Part,
“owner” includes the operator of a manufacturing establishment but does not include a landlord;
“site” means one property and includes nearby properties owned or leased by the same person where passage from one property to another involves crossing, but not travelling along, a public highway.
57. (1) The owner shall conduct a waste audit covering the waste generated by the operation of the establishment at the site. The audit shall also address the extent to which materials or products used or sold consist of recycled or reused materials or products.
(2) After conducting the waste audit, the owner shall prepare a written report of the audit.
(3) In every year following the initial waste audit, the owner shall update the audit and prepare an updated written report.
58. (1) The owner shall prepare a written waste reduction work plan, based on the waste audit, to reduce, reuse and recycle waste generated by the operation of the establishment.
(2) In every year following the preparation of the initial waste reduction work plan, the owner shall prepare an updated written plan.
59. The owner shall implement the waste reduction work plan as updated.
60. The waste reduction work plan shall include measures for communicating the plan to the owner’s employees who work at the site and, as a minimum, those measures shall require,
(a) that the plan or a summary be posted in places where most employees will see it; and
(b) if a summary is posted, that any employee who requests to look at the plan be allowed to do so.
