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Remote camps and catering safety manual template

A complete written health and safety program for companies that run remote workforce lodges and industrial camps, and for the catering, housekeeping, janitorial and camp maintenance crews in them, in every province and territory. It is laid out on the 14 national COR elements and written for camp life: food safety and kitchen hazards, cleaning chemicals, outbreaks in congregate living, drinking water and wastewater, dormitory fire safety, violence and harassment in camp, working alone at night, fatigue on rotation, wildlife and remote first aid. Section 15 sets out the law of every province and territory, and federal workplaces, side by side, with where each one keeps its food premises, drinking water, fire code and camp rules. It arrives as an editable Word file you make your own.

A look inside

Sample pages from the manual, marked and cut short. Your copy has no watermark.

Cover with room for your logo and company name

Linked table of contents, laid out on the 14 national COR elements plus a section on working across Canada

Section 3: eighteen safe work practices written for camp, kitchen and housekeeping work, infection control shown

Section 15: each jurisdiction's rules for camps, food premises and drinking water

Appendix A: all 74 documentation questions of the national COR elements mapped

Print-ready logs and forms: the food temperature and cooling log shown

What’s in the manual

1. Safety and health policy

A signed, dated policy, the written program, and responsibilities for management, camp managers, kitchen and housekeeping supervisors, cooks, housekeepers, maintenance staff and the camp medic, and how we work with the client’s rules.

2. Hazard assessment, analysis and control

Formal hazard assessments for the kitchen, dormitories, utilities and grounds, the 5 × 5 risk matrix, a critical task inventory, and the camp area hazard assessment.

3. Safe work practices

Eighteen practices for camp crews: food safety, knives and slicers, fryers and kitchen fires, walk-in coolers, gas appliances and carbon monoxide, housekeeping and lifting, cleaning chemicals, infection control, drinking water and wastewater, dormitory fire safety, harassment in camp, working alone at night, fatigue, wildlife, generators and fuel, driving and slips.

4. Safe job procedures

Step-by-step procedures for receiving food, cleaning a commercial kitchen, a grease fire, cleaning a dormitory room safely, an outbreak, refuelling a generator, a bear in camp, and night rounds with a resident in distress.

5. Company safety rules

Life-saving rules for camp crews, resident conduct, working under the stricter of our rules and the client’s, and a progressive discipline process applied the same way every time.

6. Personal protective equipment

Cut-resistant gloves, slip-resistant footwear, gloves and eye protection for chemicals, and what housekeepers wear for sharps and bodily fluids.

7. Preventative maintenance program

Kitchen equipment and hoods, coolers and freezers, gas appliances, water and wastewater systems, generators, fire protection and vehicles.

8. Training and communication

Food handler training, WHMIS, fire safety and drills, harassment training, orientation for each camp and client, and toolbox talks every shift.

9. Inspections

Kitchen, dormitories, utilities and grounds, fire protection and extinguishers, and equipment before use.

10. Investigations and reporting

Incidents reported to the regulator of the jurisdiction where the camp is, outbreaks reported to public health, and investigations.

11. Emergency preparedness

The camp emergency response plan: fire and evacuation, medical emergencies and evacuation from a remote camp, outbreaks, water system failures, wildlife, wildfire and weather.

12. Statistics, records and document control

Food temperature logs, cleaning schedules, water records, fire drills and inspections, kept for the longest period any jurisdiction requires.

13. Legislation

OHS law where the camp is, the public health, drinking water and fire rules that also apply, the standards and guidance the manual follows, and the right to refuse.

14. Procurement and contractor management

Working for clients, subcontractors in camp, and buying food, chemicals and equipment fit for the work.

15. Working across Canada

Whose law applies, then every province and territory and federal workplaces side by side: the act and regulation, the regulator, where each keeps its food premises, drinking water, fire code and camp rules, serious incidents to report and how fast, and the other rules that change at the border.

Appendix A. COR cross-reference

Every one of the 74 documentation questions in the 14 national COR elements, what it looks for in plain words, the section that answers it, and whether the auditor will also want your records.

Appendix B. Forms

36 print-ready forms that match the manual, each with a form code: among them the camp area hazard assessment, food temperature and cooling log, cleaning and sanitizing schedule, outbreak response checklist and fire watch and drill record.

Written for camp life, not just the province

A camp is a kitchen, a hotel, a water utility and a small town at once, often hours from help. Its risks come from all of them: a grease fire, norovirus through a dormitory, a water system that fails, a resident in distress at three in the morning, a bear by the kitchen door. This manual is written around them, practice by practice and procedure by procedure.

A camp answers to more than OHS law: its kitchen, water and dormitories have rules and inspectors of their own. The manual says where each jurisdiction keeps them, and the stricter rule always wins.

One program for every province you work in

Your crews follow the occupational health and safety law of the province or territory where the camp is, not where your office is. The manual sets your company’s rules once and gathers what changes at each border into section 15, so a supervisor starting work in a new province looks up what applies there.

It is laid out on the 14 national COR elements, so it suits a COR audit wherever you certify. Each certifying partner uses its own audit tool, so check it against yours; our provincial manuals follow each province’s audit exactly. No template can guarantee a certificate on its own, and we don’t claim to.

Who it is for

Companies that run remote workforce lodges, industrial and mobile camps, and the catering, housekeeping, janitorial and camp maintenance contractors in them, for oil sands, mines, pipelines, hydro and construction projects.

A template is a starting point, not legal advice: a qualified person must adapt it to your camps and your clients’ rules before you issue it.

Lifetime updates

When the law changes, we publish a new edition and email everyone who bought the template. Every update is free, for as long as we publish it.

Version 1.0 October 16, 2026
- First edition, written for remote camps and their catering, housekeeping and maintenance crews and laid out on the 14 national elements of the harmonized COR audit.
- Section 15 sets out the law of every province and territory and federal workplaces, with where each keeps its food premises, drinking water, fire code and camp rules, checked against the legislation in force on 15 October 2026.