Spotlight Small Business

Whether you are a company of five or 25,000, employers in British Columbia have an obligation to protect the health and safety of their employees at work. The small employer health and safety online toolbox provides information on the fundamental elements of a health and safety program. Follow along the modules to stay on track with building your own occupational health and safety management system.

Register below for five essential free courses.

Take online training — FREE for small business member employers with fewer than 20 FTE employees. 

  • Small Employer Program Building
  • Small Employer Fundamentals
  • Hazard Identification
  • Incident Investigation
  • Workplace Inspections

Program Essentials

All BC employers have an obligation to protect the health and safety of their workers. Programs essentials will provide you with the foundational building blocks of your health and safety program.
The Workers Compensation Act (the 'Act')  and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation are the laws that address worker compensation in B.C.
An OHS program should be built upon certain fundamental management principles. A commitment from leadership will help your health and safety strategy achieve the strongest results.
The employer/manager/owner of all businesses in BC – regardless of their size – is responsible for the leadership of the safety and health programs.
Every new worker, and workers changing roles, must have adequate training before starting work and when new, unfamiliar tasks are assigned. There are many ways to conduct training.

Grow your OHS program

Ready to expand your health and safety program? These modules will give you information to take your occupational health and safety management system to the next level.

Industry-specific programs and controls

Specific hazardous activities within a workplace will call for more stringent programs and procedures in order to minimize the risk to workers and others. Not all of the following activities or issues will be present in every workplace: each employer will have to determine which activities are applicable to their workplace.