Worksafe BC – Training Sessions for Joint Committee Members (Part 2)

This two-part training session will allow each CISVA school to meet Worksafe BC’s mandatory training requirements for Joint Health and Safety Committee Members.   As per Worksafe BC: All joint committee members selected on or after April 3, 2017 must receive eight hours of training and instruction on the following topics:

– The duties and functions of a joint committee

– The rules of procedure of the joint committee

– The requirements around conducting incident investigations

– The requirements around conducting regular workplace inspections, and how to make regular inspections

– The requirements around responding to a refusal of unsafe work

– The requirements for annually evaluating the joint committee

These two-part training sessions will cover 6 hours of the mandatory training.  The other two hours must be completed on-line by each attendee prior to the August 26 session.   Here is the link to that on-line component:

https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/healthsafety/interactive-tools/jhsc-fundamentals-course-joint-health-safetycommittee?lang=en