A sample of an acknowledgement letter for supervisors.

Patient privacy is protected under the provincial Health Act, so we are not able to share a list of who attended each clinic.

Tools and templates to safeguard your workplace against COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and navigate workplace health and safety in the new normal.

This checklist is to guide processors and inspectors in evaluating COVID-19 control programs in processing facilities. Refer to the Guidance on reducing the risk of COVID-19 to workers in processing facilities for details.

If employees work from home, it is the employer’s responsibility to ensure their health and safety.

To limit the transmission of viral diseases, such as COVID-19, cleaning protocols should be used to clean and disinfect common contact surfaces within the workplace.

WorkSafeBC recognizes the importance of worker safety as businesses look to resume operations following COVID-19 related work stoppages or interruptions. The following materials provide employers with information and resources to assist them in ensuring the risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19 is minimized at their workplace.

This website from WorkSafeBC provides answers to frequently asked questions from British Columbian workers and employers focusing on how to maintain a healthy and safe workplace during the COVID-19 outbreak. Questions and answers are grouped under various topic headings.

As our knowledge of the COVID-19 virus grows, we need to review our COVID-19 Safety Plan to ensure that it remains effective and relevant to protect our workplaces and communities. Use this checklist as a guide to help strengthen your plan.

Employers are required to develop a COVID-19 Safety Plan that outlines the policies, guidelines, and procedures they have put in place to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. This fillable PDF will guide you through a six-step process to help you create your plan. Download and save for your workplace.

A training matrix is used to keep track of who has been trained.

Prevention, Enforcement, and Labour Law

Poster tips for stretches that can be done at any workstation throughout during periodic wellness breaks to counter stiffness from static work and potentially limit risk of sprains or strains in more active jobs.

This template is presented in coordination with an April 7, 2020 webinar on Exposure Control Plans. It is intended to support the development of a site-specific biological exposure control plan.

All employees must wash their hands with soap and water (or alcohol-based sanitizer) regularly. At a minimum, employees must wash their hands in the following scenarios.

Remember to wash your hands before entering this area.

Employees should always consider alternatives to travel e.g. teleconferences, video conferences, etc. When travel is deemed necessary, whether it be work-related or for personal reasons, employees are expected to follow procedures to limit the spread of any viral diseases in the workplace.

This guide will provide information to employees about the symptoms of COVID-19, reporting symptoms at work, and determining return-to-work readiness.

A handy, printable checklist for inspection of your respirators.

NIOSH approved disposable respirators for food processing and manufacturing

This resource bundle includes: Particulate filter types poster Respiratory inspection checklist User seal checks for disposable respirators User seal checks for half-face reusable respirators with cartridges User seal checks for half-face reusable respirators with filters

A risk assessment should be completed to determine the controls required for protecting workers against hazards in the workplace. This also applies to COVID-19.

This bundle includes: Customizable templates Checklists Printable signs and posters

This sample policy provides you with the basics to create a mandatory mask policy. [Excerpt] In response to the Public Health Office orders, a mandatory mask policy is now in effect at [Company Name]. A mask will now be required in the workplace, where physical distancing is not possible.

Information on how to conduct user seal checks for reusable half-face respirators with filter

We encourage everyone who can do so to get the vaccine, as it will help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and save lives by preventing disease, especially for people most likely to have severe illness or die. If enough people get vaccinated, it makes it difficult for the disease to spread. We hope that as […]

Most people experience mild side effects, such as a sore arm, that would not typically interrupt work. We have vaccinated all the staff at a variety of workplaces and have not seen a situation where a large percentage needed time off to recover from vaccination.

If a worker is working alone or in an isolated area, they should be monitored regularly. Depending on the risk level of their location, it can be hourly, every few hours, or at start and end of task.

The following items should be added to your workplace inspection checklist to ensure that controls for COVID-19 stay effective.

WorkSafeBC’s steps to help you develop a plan to ensure you are minimizing the risk of COVID-19 appropriately, and that your business can operate safely.