The Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act, Regulation and Code requires the employer to identify and tell workers about known health and safety hazards, which exist on the worksite that cannot be readily controlled or eliminated, and that has the potential to cause serious injury. As a supervisor, you are the person responsible for carrying out the obligation, and to do so, you need to conduct inspections regularly.

A safety inspection is an observational tour of the workplace to check for compliance with regulations, established safe work practices, procedures, and safety rules. It should identify any situation that has the potential to cause personal injury or property damage, including substandard conditions on the worksite and substandard practices on the part of the workers. The majority of accidents/incidents are caused by substandard practices frequently combined with substandard conditions, which have been allowed to exist uncorrected.