Step-by-Step Guide to Complimentary COR/OSSE Certification for Small Businesses
The Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC (Alliance) provides complimentary training and resources to help small businesses (those with fewer than 20 employees) every step of the way, ensuring your success in achieving and maintaining COR/OSSE certification.
Step 1: Get Registered
The Alliance is a certifying partner for WorkSafeBC’s COR certification process and can help you start your journey towards COR/OSSE Certification.
Fill out and submit a registration form to start.
Step 2: Connect with our OHS Audit Team
By booking a COR/OSSE meeting with our team, they can review the requirements and build you a customized step-by-step OHS Road Map on how to reach COR/OSSE certification—including free training, checklists, and other documentation.
They will plan with you on how to:
- Build a OHS Implementation Plan (Road Map – large employers) with you
- Complete these complimentary courses:
- Small Employer Program Building — A virtual eLearning course designed to help small employers understand the key elements of a safety program, legislative requirements, and how to build an occupational health and safety management program.
- Small Employer OHS Fundamentals — A virtual eLearning course to introduce small business owners to occupational health and safety basics
- Conduct a gap analysis for your business and to help fill the gap.
- This includes helping your business create and implement OHS programs to meet requirements.
- Provide free OHS program templates to small business owners.
Step 3: Conduct an audit and submit it for review
As you near the end of your OHS implementation plan:
- Our OHS Audit Team will register (at minimum) one of your employees for a complimentary OSSE Internal auditor course
- Your certified OSSE Internal Auditor completes an OSSE audit package and submits it for review.
The completed audit package is sent to the OHS Audit Team for QA review. An OHS audit advisor will connect with your internal auditor regarding your audit results.
After a successful QA review, the COR/OSSE certificate is issued by WorkSafeBC. Companies are responsible for conducting audits annually to maintain COR/OSSE certification status.