Integrating OHS & Business

603: Support a Joint Health and Safety Committee

The OHS professional is an important resource in the workplace. They must be competent to provide OHS knowledge and support to an organization’s Joint Health and Safety Committee, or, for some small employers, a Worker’s Health and Safety Representative, in order to support the organization’s overall OHS performance. In order to effectively collaborate with a Joint Health and Safety Committee, an OHS professional must be competent in a variety of skills. These include:

– Communicating legislative and regulatory requirements
– Facilitating discussion between workers and employers and supporting decision-making
– Providing training
– Negotiation
– Project management

Prerequisite

None

References in Other Frameworks

BCRSP: HSM11

Understand and Remember

– Relevant legislation, regulations, guidelines and standards that pertain to Joint Health and Safety Committees (JHSC)
– Governance requirements
– Labour relations dynamics
– Differences in requirements between small and large businesses
– JHSC vs WHSR

Apply and Analyze

– Monitor activity of JHSC
– Ensure processes being followed for incident investigations, inspections, hazard identification, refusal of unsafe work, recommendations to management, etc.
– Manage existing training programs
– JHSC structure, roles, responsibility
– Training for new members
– Continual development
– Facilitate communication between JHSC, or WHSR, and employers or regulatory bodies
– Assist in documentation management
– Act as an information resource to the JHSC or WHSR

Evaluate and Create

– Evaluate the effectiveness of the JHSC
– Identify areas of excellence
– Identify opportunities for improvement
– Facilitate the development of a new JHSC or WHSR
– Provide training to new JHSC members or WHSR
– Act as a chair in a JHSC

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Related Units of Competency

601 Demonstrate
Understanding of fundamentals of business administration and operations
602 Demonstrate
Understanding of the intersection between OHS and human resource processes
604 Perform
Information gathering, data analysis, and forecasting
607 Develop
And implement an OHS continuous improvement plan
608 Integrate
Health and safety with corporate social responsibility
611 Identify
And implement methods for risk evaluation and decision making in a business environment