Services de sécurité · Canada
Long, often 12-hour night shifts worked alone leave guards short of sleep; dozing on post, missed alarms and drowsy patrol or cash-in-transit driving put people, property and the officer at risk.
Réglementation modifiée : 6 oct. 2025Changement prévu : 6 oct. 2026
Veille réglementaire
Les changements réglementaires qui touchent votre gestion de la fatigue en services de sécurité : ce qui a changé au cours des 12 derniers mois, et ce qui s’en vient.
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Changement récentDepuis le 6 octobre 2025
S’applique à tous les secteurs (Canada)
In Quebec, since 6 October 2025 every establishment must identify and analyze psychosocial risks, including heavy workload, in a prevention program (20+ workers) or action plan.
Voir le changementChangement à venirPrévu à compter de 6 octobre 2026D’ici 12 mois
Quebec employers have until 6 October 2026 to have a prevention program (20 or more workers) or action plan in place that addresses psychosocial risks, including heavy workload.
Changements réglementaires vérifiés au 1 octobre 2026.
Réglementation
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No Canadian jurisdiction has a fatigue or hours rule for security guards. Provincial security Acts license guards and agencies and set training and conduct standards. Hours and rest come from provincial employment standards, and fatigue from the general duty to take every reasonable precaution to protect workers. No province requires a health assessment for night workers.
Security guards are licensed provincially: in Ontario by the Private Security and Investigative Services Branch under the Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005, with an equivalent regulator in each province. Your provincial OHS regulator enforces the general duty and employment standards officers enforce rest rules; federally regulated employers answer to the Labor Program.
Take every reasonable precaution to protect your guards, including on night, lone and mobile patrol shifts, and give them the information, instruction and supervision they need. In Ontario, give 11 hours' daily rest, 24 hours' weekly rest and a 30-minute eating period every 5 hours; other provinces set their own minimums. Deploy only licensed guards, and accommodate a diagnosed sleep disorder to the point of undue hardship.
Ontario inspectors can issue orders, stop work and prosecute, and courts must weigh aggravating factors at sentencing, so a known hazard left unmanaged makes the outcome worse. Rest-period breaches draw employment standards orders. Failing to accommodate a diagnosed sleep disorder goes to a human rights tribunal. Provincial registrars can suspend or revoke a guard's or agency's license.
Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act, 2026 figures: up to $2,000,000 for a corporation, $1,500,000 for a director or officer and $500,000 for any other individual, each with up to 12 months' jail. Federally regulated employers face Canada Labor Code fines to $1,000,000 on indictment and penalties to $250,000 per violation without prosecution.
Sources: Ontario Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005, and provincial equivalents; Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act; Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000; Canada Labour Code; human rights legislation.
Postes critiques
Les postes où un travailleur fatigué risque le plus de causer un préjudice grave, les tâches qui portent ce risque, et pourquoi la fatigue s’y accumule.
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| Poste | Risque | Tâches à risque élevé | Pourquoi la fatigue s’accumule |
|---|---|---|---|
Mobile patrol officerRègles
| Risque critique | Driving between sites all night; alarm response with lone entry into premises; key-holding call-outs | Night shifts of 10-12 h, continuous driving, lone work, call-outs |
Armoured car guardRègles
| Risque critique | Armed cash collection and delivery under attack risk; driving armoured vehicles on long routes; early-morning ATM replenishment | Pre-dawn starts, long routes, high-alert vigilance, occasional night ATM runs |
Nuclear security officerRègles
| Risque critique | Armed protective-force patrols and alarm-station duty at a nuclear plant; vigilance posts overnight; response-team drills | 12 h rotating shifts with nights, overtime during outages |
Security guardRègles
| Risque élevé | Lone static guarding on 12 h night shifts; site and car-park patrols; access control, fire and intrusion alarm response | 12 h night shifts, back-to-back shifts across employers, lone work, monotony |
Alarm monitoring operatorRègles
| Risque élevé | Monitoring alarms and CCTV feeds overnight; dispatching response; verifying alarm activations and lone-worker check-ins | 12 h night shifts, screen monotony, low event rate overnight |
Event security / bouncerRègles
| Risque élevé | Door and crowd control at late-night venues and events; managing intoxicated patrons and physical restraint near closing time | Late-night shifts finishing after 03:00, weekend clustering, second jobs |
Cas
Constatations et poursuites publiées par les organismes de réglementation, les tribunaux et les enquêteurs (Canada).
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avr. 2011 · Ontario, Canada
During a 3.30am security audit at a nuclear fuel facility, a night-shift plant guard and supervisor was found fully reclined with his feet on the desk and his safety boots off, apparently asleep. The arbitrator accepted there was just cause for discipline and noted the 'potential catastrophic consequences' of a guard's inattention, but found the company's own policy and past practice treated sleeping on the job with warnings. The guard was reinstated to a lower position under a last-chance agreement rather than dismissed.
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Comment la suite s’inscrit
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No Canadian security licensing law, such as Ontario's Private Security and Investigative Services Act, 2005, requires a sleep health screen. Sleepfit supports your general duty to protect worker health under provincial OHS law. It screens; diagnosis stays with your clinicians.
À propos de SleepfitNo Canadian security rule names a point-of-duty fatigue check. Fatiguefit4Duty supports your general duty under provincial OHS law for lone guards, mobile patrol and armoured-car crews. A fitness-for-duty check, not a fitness-for-duty decision - the duty call stays with you.
À propos de Fatiguefit4DutyYour duty to give guards the information, instruction and supervision they need, under provincial OHS law such as s 25(2)(a) of Ontario's OHS Act, does not name fatigue. Awareness eLearning supplies fatigue and sleep content with a completion record.
À propos de Awareness eLearningYour duty to investigate workplace incidents under provincial OHS law does not name fatigue in security work. Was It Fatigue? supports that investigation after a lone-post injury or patrol vehicle crash. A structured judgment aid, not a determination of cause.
À propos de Was It Fatigue?No Canadian security rule reaches sleep in new-parent households. SleepWellBaby is offered as a benefit to parents on your guard rosters; it is not a compliance step and sits outside your health and safety obligations.
À propos de SleepWellBabyForfait recommandé
Chaque forfait est tarifé selon la prévalence : toute votre cohorte y a accès, et vous payez pour la proportion qui devrait avoir besoin de chaque produit. Comment fonctionne la tarification.
Le dépistage des troubles du sommeil et une vérification au début du quart pour les travailleurs qui en ont le plus besoin.
Le risque lié à la fatigue, de façon proactive : évaluer, gérer et former, avec le dépistage des troubles du sommeil comme base.
Pourquoi ce choix (Canada)
No rule names a fatigue tool, so this supports your duty under your provincial OHS Act. Sleepfit screens your guards and patrol crews for sleep disorders; Fatiguefit4Duty adds a point-of-duty self-check with a record. Prevention adds Awareness eLearning with a completion record.
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