Overview

Course description

Safety Committee is a 1-day course for joint health and safety committee members. You learn the OHS duties of employers, supervisors and workers, how refusal of unsafe work works, and what a safety orientation has to cover. You learn how to carry out workplace inspections and incident investigations, including finding root causes. You also cover the committee’s duties and functions, its rules of procedure, and how a committee is evaluated. Certification takes a final exam and the practical portion of the course.

Standards

BC OHS Regulation, section 3.27(4): joint committee member instruction and training topics

What's covered

Course modules

01Introduction4 topics

OHS duties
Refusal of unsafe work
Safety orientations
The Westray mine disaster

02Workplace Inspections5 topics

Why conduct workplace inspections?
When do workplace inspections need to be completed?
How to conduct a workplace inspection?
Critiquing an inspection
Conducting an inspection

03Incident Investigations6 topics

Why conduct incident investigations?
The incident response process
Obtain witness statements and other information
Determining root causes
Apply the hierarchy of safety control
Practice applying the hierarchy of control

04Duties and Functions3 topics

What a joint health and safety committee is
The duties and functions of a committee
Work situations where the committee can help

05Rules of Procedure3 topics

Rules of procedure requirements for safety committees
Committee purpose, name and composition
Comparing against your employer’s existing document

06JOHSC Evaluations3 topics

Annual evaluation requirements
What the evaluation covers
Self-evaluation of an existing committee

Things to keep in mind

According to WorkSafe BC specifications: “All joint committee members selected on or after April 3, 2017, must receive eight hours of training and instruction.”

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Private classes for Safety Committee, 6 people or more

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