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HR templates for manufacturing & warehousing

Safety-first HR templates for manufacturers, warehouses, and distribution centers — designed around occupational health & safety, workers' comp, and shift-pattern operations.

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Employment offer letter

A jurisdiction-aware full-time employment offer letter. Fillable, exportable as PDF or DOCX, free.

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Drug & alcohol policy

A workplace drug and alcohol policy with the duty-to-accommodate language Canadian human-rights law requires, plus reasonable testing and reporting clauses.

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Workplace incident report

A workplace incident report capturing the facts of an injury, near-miss, or safety event. Designed to feed provincial workers'-comp / WSIB / WCB filings and OSHA recordkeeping.

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What's hard about HR in this industry

Joint Health & Safety Committee obligations that scale with headcount.
Drug & alcohol policy in safety-sensitive roles, with strong human-rights guardrails.
Workers'-comp / WSIB / WCB claims and return-to-work coordination.
Incident reporting timelines that vary by province / state.
Mix of unionized and non-unionized operations in the same facility.

When you'd reach for these

Onboarding a production-line worker with the right safety acknowledgements.
Reporting a workplace incident inside WSIB / WCB / OSHA timelines.
Building a return-to-work plan after a lost-time injury.
Documenting a drug / alcohol incident in a safety-sensitive role.

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Return-to-work plan

A return-to-work plan for an employee coming back from disability, injury, or extended medical leave. Covers accommodations, restrictions, gradual return, and review schedule.

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Workplace harassment & violence policy

A statutorily required harassment, violence, and discrimination policy with jurisdiction-specific reporting language and statutory references.

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Code of conduct

A concrete code of conduct covering integrity, respect, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and reporting channels — designed to be readable and enforceable.

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Expense reimbursement form

A signable expense reimbursement form covering business purpose, totals, attachments, and approval — designed to be filed alongside receipts.

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Termination letter — without cause

A jurisdiction-aware without-cause termination letter that meets ESA / labour-standards minimums and preserves the employee's common-law rights.

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Pick the policies you need from the manufacturing & warehousing list above and bind them into a single PDF or DOCX with a cover, table of contents, and page numbers.

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