Joint Health & Safety Committee Mandatory Training
The joint health and safety committee supports the employer's duty to ensure a healthy and safe workplace. The joint committee brings together representatives of the employer and the workers, to identify and help resolve health and safety issues in the workplace.
When you need a joint health and safety committee
If your workplace has 20 or more workers, you need a joint committee. This includes any workplace where there are 20 or more workers employed at the workplace for longer than a month. WorkSafeBC may also order that a joint committee be established in any other workplace.
When you need a worker health and safety representative
If your workplace has more than 9 but fewer than 20 workers, you need to have a worker health and safety representative. This includes any workplace where there are 10 or more workers employed at the workplace for longer than a month.
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UPDATE FROM THE EMPLOYERS' ADVISERS OFFICE
Joint Health and Safety Committee Member Training, and other EAO Seminars
As set out in our January Law and Policy Bulletin, regulation 3.27(4) requires mandatory training for all joint committee members selected on or after April 3, 2017. Employers need to ensure their committee members are trained as soon as possible, but not more than 6 months after selection.
The EAO has created 4 webinars which have been reviewed by WorkSafeBC. These webinars are designed to meet 6 of the 8 hours of mandatory training.
While we had hoped to offer the webinars by the end of July, a number of technical issues have delayed the launch. The primary challenge is the implementation of a new seminar registration system which is designed to make registering for seminars quick, easy and effective for our clients. Our office is working tirelessly to resolve the technical issues to provide you with the quality seminars you have come to expect from the EAO.
In the meantime, before taking the EAO training, participants are asked to complete WorkSafeBC’s e-learning session. This course takes approximately 2 hours to complete; when combined with the EAO webinars, the mandatory 8 hours of training will be met.
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For more WorksafeBC information on Joint Health and Safety Committees, CLICK HERE
EAO Locations in BC: Abbotsford; Kamloops; Kelowna; Nanaimo; Prince George; Richmond; Trail; Victoria
Phone: 1-800-925-2233; Fax: 1-855-664-7993
Email: EAO@eao-bc.org